New year challenges
ANTOINETTE:
Happy New year to all our Baby Sense moms and Dads. Wishing you a year filled with happy days and Peaceful nights. Every year I make a list of challenges I set for myself - not resolutions, but goals - for each aspect of my life. Challenges for myself as a mother, friend, daughter and wife. These are my 10 challenges for 2009 as a mother:
1. Take more photos of my children - I am forever missing moments that I should be treasuring
2. Stop telling my children that I am tired - not doing something with them because I am tired is a loss of a precious moment.
3. Stop telling my children I am busy - being too busy to do something with them is a tragedy
4. Live the moments - be 100% there when I am involved with my children, forget the work, phone, cleaning up, just be there.
5. Hold my children that much tighter, more cuddles, kisses and laugh more with them.
6. Dont sweat the small stuff - stop getting cross with things I could let slide
7. Get outside more - children learn best when outdoors and in nature.
8. Involve my kids more - get them to help with the chores. It is extra time to spend engaging with them.
9. Stop being late - factor in last minute nappy changes, lost shoes and melt downs into time needed to get going.
10. More time out for myself and my husband - Parenting is a joy, but it is taxing. Time out for yourselves is vital. We certainly dont get enough.
So come on 2009, I am ready for you!!!