Goodbye 2010, Hello 2011

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. - James Agate...a resolution I can get behind!!!!!

I do not make resolutions...I know, I am a party pooper extraordinaire! But hey, if I do something, I might as well excel at it!!! ;) But, in an effort to do something to usher out 2010 and say hello to 2011, I would like to clean out my child's room....or rather the cave of toys where I happen to make him sleep. He has so many things that he does not play with! There is Thomas the Train® set (who he just HAD to have...we played with it maybe 3/4 times and it is in a bag in the back of the closet), the Weebles® Treehouse (once much loved but now not played with in forever), an unopened -- yes UNOPENED -- truck carry case with cars that is just sitting in the back of the closet (he has more cars than he can count so seriously I think we can downsize), a Black and Decker® tool table set thingy, and more. I don't know if he has just outgrown these things or what (and with the new DSi®...even more will be shoved to the back of the closet, trust me), but I have got to do something!!!! {yeah I walked in the closet to put the new clothes away and stubbed my toe, time to clean}. Not only that, but the old clothes are being taken out of that closet too!!!

So, by the end of February the cave will be cleaned out. Not sure what I am going to do with it all yet......its a good resolution and not one that will be broken LOL

The I Wants...and aliens

My child has always been a content child. He has never really been one to want things, or rather to say I want this or I want that. Going through a store with him is pretty easy as far as those things go...he may see a ball or book or something and mention it but it is only once and then that's the end of it. At the end of the shopping trip if I have extra money and he has been good more often than not he will get the little item he had mentioned, otherwise we leave the store and go on with our lives.

That was our past...something happened when he turned 7. I do not know what, I do not know why, and I am not entirely sure but aliens may be involved somehow. Hey, its a theory! Anyways, for the last month I have been hearing the phrase "I WANT" come out of that child's mouth for everything. I believe yesterday he wasn't even paying attention, but a commercial came on and it was "I want that" and I was oh really, you would like that type of toilet paper??? His response, oh mommy don't be silly I thought it was a toy commercial. UGH!!!! He hasn't even been picky about gender specific toys -- "I WANT".

Wait, is anyone getting the feeling that the I Wants are driving me a little insane??? Oh , wellllll...ya know.....maybe a little bit. I cannot even really tell what is a true I want any more or a I want because that is what a kid is supposed to say when a toy commercial comes on.

Thankfully, the aliens have not totally taken over because his Christmas wish list was approximately 4 items long. When I got it I did sarcastically ask about all of the "I wants" and he replied that he really only wants what is on his list, the other stuff if just toys and he has lots of those. (I wanted to take his round little head in my hands and say look kid than stop with the I want...but instead I took his round little head in my hands and gave him a loud sloppy kiss). Anyone want to bet with me that I will hear at least 4 "I wants" tomorrow?????