Today on Facebook, I came across the Peggy O’Mara quote “The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice”. My lovely girls are generally just that. However, with pre-teen hormones kicking in, I have noticed an increase in drama and volume in the way they speak to each other. My husband and I recently reminded each other that it’s our job to remain calm when they aren’t – ensuring we use the right words when we are handling these situations – not always easy in the midst of this dramatic overload.
For me, this segued into reflecting about what I would hope to do differently in 2016 and in the interest of keeping myself honest, here is my list:
For home and family:
- remember to ‘be the parent’ when handling my girls drama
- remember that what I say is their inner voice
- work out 3 times a week
- walk the dogs 3 times a week, and at least once in the forest
- play games with the girls
- eat more vegetables
- try a new recipe once every two weeks
- blog at least once a month
For crafts:
- learn to speed knit
- join and complete a mystery KAL
- use up 10% of stash
- learn to use my cover stitch machine
- finish or frog all of my ongoing knitting projects
- finish or put back into stash, all of my ongoing sewing projects
- finish my pixelated art quilt
- don’t get sucked into a Plucky yarn release
The last one might sound a bit too targeted, but for me, this is more a behavioural choice not to get caught up in wants versus needs (read: I don’t need any more yarn).
For #2 on my craft list, I recently joined the Wild Prairie Knits Mystery KAL and am really excited to receive my yarn (see I’ve broken the needs versus wants thing already : ) ).
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