New Year's Resolutions

I have finally decided to put my New Year's resolutions to print. They are, in no particular order:

1. To lose five pounds.
2. To run more.
3. To not yell "are you kidding me?" at my kids when they are out of control. (Although hearing my four year old shout it at his two year old brother has almost been worth it.)
4. To not yell at my husband. (Okay, that is totally not going to work out for me, so I will need to retract that one.)
5. To only yell at my husband when he really deserves it. (Still not going to cut it for me and also has proven to be too difficult even in the last 2 minutes that I've been writing this, so.....)
6. To trick my husband into believing that I am yelling at him less in 2012 than I did in 2011. Ha! That's it! Totally manageable.
7. To update this blog more than once every 6 months.

Time for bed. It is almost midnight and I have absolutely no idea why I am up this late. I also have no idea how I will ever achieve resolutions 1 - 7 on five hours of sleep a night. Ugh. This is sounding very much like one of those word problems in high school pre-calculus that used to totally make me nervous.

"If mother A gets little to no sleep and child A wakes up at 4:45 a.m. and child B wakes up crying fifteen minutes later, what are the chances that mother A will lose five pounds, actually go running, and not yell at father A that morning?"

Thinking, thinking, thinking. Aha! I've got it! The answer to that problem is......ZERO! Zero chance that mother A will do anything but sit numbly in front of a cup of coffee in the morning. Sit numbly while mumbling "are you kidding me?" to child A and child B. But mumbling isn't yelling now is it?

Good night!