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<\/a>\u00a0I want to laugh more and yell less.\u00a0 I want more smiles and less tears (from the kids and myself!)\u00a0 I want more kisses and cuddles and less \u201cbreaks\u201d (our term for time out). I want to love every second I\u2019m with my kids and not feel stressed every second I\u2019m away from them.\u00a0 I want to go to bed each night thinking \u201cwhat a great day!\u201d<\/p>\nI want to take ownership of my shortcomings.\u00a0 If I don\u2019t accomplish something I should have or wanted to, I don\u2019t want to feel obligated to make excuses.\u00a0 I want to feel content when I make a choice to do or not do something.\u00a0 I want to take pride in being able to say \u201cI chose to have an easy day and that\u2019s okay, I deserve to make that choice sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is not to say I strive to be perfect or do the right things all the time, I just want to do better today than I did yesterday.\u00a0 I want to enjoy my children more this week than I did last week.\u00a0 I want to feel more pride in what I accomplish this month than I did last month.\u00a0 I want to be happier this year than I was last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ve never been one to make New Years\u2019 resolutions, but this year I\u2019m going to.\u00a0 My resolution for2014 is simple: I want to be a better ME. This resolution doesn\u2019t mean I feel there is anything wrong with who I am now, I just know I can be better.\u00a0 I know there are places where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-time-to-celebrate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9847,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/9847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>\u00a0I want to laugh more and yell less.\u00a0 I want more smiles and less tears (from the kids and myself!)\u00a0 I want more kisses and cuddles and less \u201cbreaks\u201d (our term for time out). I want to love every second I\u2019m with my kids and not feel stressed every second I\u2019m away from them.\u00a0 I want to go to bed each night thinking \u201cwhat a great day!\u201d<\/p>\n