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So it's New Years again.
To some people it's the perfect time to lose weight or start a new hobby. To others, it's simply a good time to reorganize the filing system.
Me, I look at it more as a chance to step back and assess my life and pinpoint exactly where I went wrong.
Here is my list of what I would've done differently if I had 2002 to live over again:
I'd leave all of the chocolate candy in the kid's Halloween bag.
I would help my fourth grader with her social studies project
instead of trying to pass off a Legoland car wash as Mission
San Diego.
I would stay until the end of the PTA meeting instead of sneaking out early to go shoe shopping.
I wouldn't yell at my daughter not to yell at her brother.
I would keep all of my seven-year-old son's baby shoes.
I'd take the kids camping during their vacation instead of on a seven hour car ride to a theme park.
I wouldn't gloat so much over beating a seven-year-old playing the game Candyland.
I'd get my hair all the way wet in the swimming pool.
I'd let my kids eat frozen corn dogs frozen. At least once.
I'd put the ornaments the kids made on the good side of the
Christmas tree.
I'd put up more finger paintings on the refrigerator door and
less schedules.
I wouldn't cut my kids' bangs.
I wouldn't have tried so hard to get to the bottom of who spit in the chocolate milk first.
I'd remember what assertive discipline is more often.
I wouldn't have fallen so easily for the old line: "Homework?
What makes you think I have homework?"
We'd watch more live theater than reality TV.
I wouldn't show the kids any pictures of me prior to 1992.
I wouldn't get on the scale the day after Thanksgiving.
I'd look in the toy box before reaching my hand into it.
I'd talk to my children in the car instead of listening to the radio.
I wouldn't buy low-rise flair leg jeans.
I wouldn't wear low-rise flair leg jeans.
I'd enjoy our Christmas lights more instead of worrying about the electricity bill.
I'd buy my son a microscope for his birthday instead of a train set that comes in eight thousand pieces and has directions in Portuguese.
I'd say more "I'm sorrys" and less "I told you so's."
I would find the time to take my family to the pumpkin patch
instead of picking our pumpkin from the bin in the produce
section at the grocery store.
And finally -- I'd learn how to program the VCR.
-- Debbie Farmer
PROGRAMMING THE VCR
"The New Year begins in a snow-storm of white vows."
-George William Curtis-
The Times Square "time ball" is named the "Star of Hope". It was specially made for this year and contains 504 glass crystals cut into triangles, 600 light bulbs, 96 big lights, and 92 mirrors.
