 Romance/Love: January 04, 2012 Issue [#4809] |
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This week: Resolution Switcheroo Edited by: Fyn  
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New Year's Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.
Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. - Mark Twain
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. - Bill Vaughan
Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits. - Anonymous
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions! - Joey Adams |
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Today (Jan 3) is my Mom's birthday. She would have been eighty-six. She's been gone almost nine years. I still miss her; expect one always misses a parent, but as time passes, the feelings are softer--more as if she is away, off somewhere. But thinking about mom which, of course, led to thinking about dad, reminded me of one of their annual rituals and I thought I'd share it with you.
Mom and Dad were happily married for forty-two years and I can't help but wonder if this had something to do with it! Every year Mom made resolutions for Dad, and he made Mom's for her. Amazingly, they always seemed to keep them! They'd never tell us kids what they were, but after time, we usually figured them out. We couldn't bug them about what they were though ...Mom threatened that my brother and I would have to do the same thing if we did. EEEWWWWW!!! *grin*
Dad always said that a partner, in this case Mom, could see what was important for them as a couple that Dad might need to work on and vice versa. The resolutions became about something for both of them, not merely one of them. Dad was a very smart man. He never, ever, made a resolution for Mom to lose weight. Mom never made one for Dad to clean out the garage and o rget organized! Smart folks, my mom and dad!
Instead, they'd make resolutions toward goals (like dad would have to forgo golf occasionally or an ice cream sundae out to save money for their vacation or Mom would have to work harder on her vegie gardens for the same reason--they went on vacation--we went to camp!) or on little things each thought would make life better. Mom once made a resolution that dad would take the five minutes a day he spent bringing her coffee before he left for work, and save up that time and then once a month he'd have that extra hour and a half to do what ever he wanted! Mom would call it the 'selfish bank' as a joke because Dad always put everyone else before him.
Dad once made a resolution for mom that she should teach us kids how to do all the laundry so she wouldn't have to. Boy, did we learn that chore fast! We never did it 'all' but after we learned, she never did ours again! Of course, in those pure cotton days, we kids had never realized that clothes needed to be hung up or folded or else be a mess of wrinkles. We grew very familiar with the joys of ironing.
Another time, Dad's resolution to Mom was that for six months she should only do what she wanted to do. It took us forever to figure that one out. To us kids, it seemed that nothing was different. Years later, I found out nothing was. Mom loved doing what she did for us. The important thing was having the choice.
Always thought it was kinda cool. Thanks Mom and Dad! And Mom, Happy Birthday!
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Mia - craving colour  wrote: "This year there'd be purple Christmas Magic."
Funny how something like that can trigger a huge emotional reaction.
Loved that Santa took the time to seek you out and that you took the time to make sure it happened.
Me too!
Bonnie  says: I adored my trip down memory lane as you talked of your family traditions. I remembered ours although we embrace them every year. It was good to remember why we have them. That cohesive bond which is love, that keeps us all together ~~ Families 
Happy 2012 everyone! May it be good, magical, loving, honest and productive!
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