Savvy Toddler Mom

Since I started working full-time in April 2009, I have had little time to blog!  However, I am regularly thinking of things I’d like to share… just at times when I don’t have a computer handy, like in the shower, driving to/from work, as I’m falling asleep.  The funny thing about that is that I spend 90% of my waking time in front of a computer!  Or, at least it feels like it.

I continue to juggle work and my family — husband in grad school and my son, who is now 5!… oh, wait, is there anything else?  YES.  I have spent a lot of time this year just trying to tread water.  I need to get back to living.

My birthday is next week and this year it’s almost a painful reminder of how much my life isn’t what I want it to be.  Don’t get me wrong… a lot of it is GREAT.  Fabulous.  Blessed and lucky and miraculous.  But there are a few big things that loom large when I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t go back to sleep.  All of us have something like that… sometimes it is so hard to reconcile what we have with what we want.

Some of the things I want I can’t do anything about.  Blech.  That’s what Zoloft is for, right?

Some of the things I CAN do something about.  So, forget the 12 days of Christmas.  I am going to come up with my 12 Things of SavvyToddlerMom.  (Okay, it was more clever when I put my own name in, but for the sake of internet anonymity…)

Between now and the end of the year, I am going to identify and make a plan for 12 things I can improve or change.  “Yes, we can.”

These 12 things will become my New Year’s Resolutions — New Year’s Goals — for 2010.

Feel free to do it with me!