by Tina on January 27, 2012
I don’t make it a habit to make New Year’s resolutions. I haven’t done so in years. I always find that I don’t have to willpower to keep up with whatever it is I resolved to do for an entire year. So now I don’t even bother. But if I did make resolutions they would probably look something like this:
-Be nicer to myself.
-Buy some new printed t-shirts. A little color never hurt anyone and neither did having shirts that weren’t beginning to look worn.
-Eat better
-Exercise more
-Make sure that the three months you haven’t had pop continues and turns into a year.
-Start using the ton of printed grocery bags that I have more often instead of forgetting them in the van all the time.
-Try to be more understanding
-Design a custom shirt and have it printed (don’t know why just sounds like fun)
-Stop cussing so much. It doesn’t matter that it’s pretty much only in my own head, it needs to stop.
-Be a better friend/wife/mother/daughter
-Cook better meals
So do you see another reason I don’t make resolutions? The lists end up going on and on and on. I have far too much to improve upon!
by Tina on January 24, 2012
I’m pathetic. I haven’t taken down my Christmas tree yet. I keep meaning to, I just haven’t gotten around to it. I have managed to put 
away the kids’ custom screen printed t-shirts that their great-grandmother gave them that have various Christmas scenes printed on them with their names and the year. (Nobody ever said she was hip to what clothes the kids are wearing these days.) And I have managed to box up my angel tree and angel ornaments, but still have to put the boxes away. I’m not sure what’s taking me so long this year. It’s not that I want Christmas to keep going and last longer. Once Christmas is over, I’m done with it for the year. I think it’s just that I haven’t been motivated to dig the boxes out of the Christmas décor closet knowing that then I’ll just have to find a way to squeeze them all back in. One of these days I’ll get it down, let’s just hope it’s not March when it does.
by Tina on January 22, 2012
I think it is very important to teach girls that they are more than just a decoration; that they can be and should be more than just pretty. But I also think it is important to teach boys the same thing. Boys can soak up the media just as much as the girls can and if the boys are constantly presented with girls in tight t-shirts and short shorts and media ads that show a girl is all about being pretty and nothing else, they will grow up thinking that that is all girls are for as well. As parents, it is just as important to teach our boys to respect girls and value them as human being just as it is important to teach the girls these things as well. Clothing ads play a big role in how young kids think of themselves and how they should dress, along with movies and games and other media. Parents of boys need to be aware of what they’re letting their boys watch when it comes to revealing or suggestive content, too. Many of my friends that have boys say how much easier it is to raise boys. I don’t agree. Raising boys is just as hard as raising girls; just in different ways. Unfortunately too many people don’t think about the message that is being sent to boys if it doesn’t have something to do with violence. No matter what’s in the media, the kids are soaking it up so it pays to be aware whether you have boys OR girls.
