How can I be thinking about New Year’s Resolutions? It’s only August (well, practically September). True, but I work in a school system and the new school year is about to start. Even though I am not at a school and am in a central office, things are starting to feel different. Summer slowed down, things got more casual at the office. Fewer meetings. Lots of people on vacations. You could feel a change once school let out. Now school will be starting and things will get hectic as I enter my busy season. This made me realize that all the “stuff” I was able to get away with during the summer won’t be possible after Labor Day.

It feels like the perfect time to make a few changes in my (and Bill’s even though he doesn’t know it yet) life:

1. Get up earlier. Which means…
2. Go to bed earlier.
3. Lay my clothes out the night before.
4. Catch up on ironing and stay on top of it.
5. Do a better job of planning meals. Which will help…
6. Grocery shop on a regular basis.
7. Purge.
8. Do some fall cleaning.
9. Take better care of the kids (more walks, brushing coats, brushing teeth…)
10. Take care of some small projects around the house.
11. Don’t take sweet, sweet husband for granted.

With the exception of #11, I’m going to wait for Labor Day to get started. Until then, I’ll make some lists and plan and go to bed on September 3rd with a new attitude and hopefully a refrigerator full of groceries and a closet full of crisp, pressed clothes.