Welcome to Round four of the Parenting Roundabout podcast for the week of June fifth.
I'm Catherine Heleco, and I'm here with Nicole Heretics, Hello and Terry
Morrow. Hello. As moms of teens and young adults, we've survived those
little kid days, yet we're still rethinking the decisions we've made all through our
kids' lives and worrying about what's going on right now. Today's Thursday, which
means it's time to give into our obsessing. And today we're obsessing about New
Year's resolutions because apparently June first was New Year's Resolution Recommitment Day. Is that
right, Terry? Yeah, that's what I saw online. We are.
The seriousness with which we take resolutions is why we are now doing this on
what day is today? June eighth? So the resolution to celebrate holiday's propertly
across that puppy off the list. Yeah, but it didn't happen. Yeah,
I don't fineral way you can think about them, I think, Yeah,
I mean I don't really. I don't usually do resolutions, you know,
I if I if I do set a goal, it's it's just when
it when it comes to mind. You know what I mean, like,
like several years ago, when I decided to do weight Watchers, it was
literally like a whim where. Yeah, in like towards late July, I
was like, I'm gonna do weight Watchers. I'm gonna start right now,
right like download the app and just go as well. So that my way
in was we're always on Wednesday instead of Monday, which would be a more
normal time to do it, right, or a Friday or whatever. Ye,
So yeah, I'm I'm not that much of a resolution. Uh person,
do you have any on the burner right now? Do you have any
resolutions that how you have picked up on a whim that you are still doing
or have recently dumped recently dumped? Um, I mean I got I got
a new job. I don't know if that counts. Sure, you know
that was a whim applying for that and then and then getting it. Yeah,
but I suppose that's the kind of thing that's like in the back of
my mind, you know, like I have job alert set up right,
I'm always like somewhat looking Yeah, but this was a sort of a different
kind of a thing that I didn't necessarily expect or expect to do or plan
to do right? Did it well? So you resolved to find something of
a job like nature and you have followed into it. Yeah, excellent you.
How about you a nixed bag? I guess. I remember on January
for I had found this thing online that was to like help you keep your
new Year's resolution. It was a list of about ten or eleven things that
you were going to resolve to do. And every day you would check these
things off. And they were, you know, get up early and eat
good food and drink this much water, and they were all good things that
I have at one time or another in my life resolved to do. But
they were all listed there nicely, and I cut and pasted it into the
Artful Agenda, and every day I was checking those off for three or four
days, maybe not quite all of them, for three or four weeks,
and then oh I could just do this stuff without having a list. In
a way it went. But I had that work out for you. Yeah,
so not not so well. I don't go by the rigid rules,
man, I just do my thing. But I had, like I'm trying
to think when I started doing this Kitty's Morning Glories rosary. Yeah, it
was sometime between us the summer or fall of last year, and okay,
so it was that a long time. Yeah, that involves she does it
at six am, and I really liked the idea of getting up at six
am to say prayers. But it's six am Louisiana time, so it's seven
am here, which is not quite so exciting. So I do get up
at six am. I started getting up at six am, saying some other
prayers, doing some stuff. Then at seven to eight I would do this
rosary. And I've had various routines thereafter that have come and gone, but
I have stuck to that, and I'm really proud of myself. I am
still getting up at six most days and saying prayers and then doing this rosary
from seven to eight and from eight to nine on the weekends. And I've
built up other little prayer habits which I am not as consistent with, but
I'm pretty consistent with this one. So I'm feeling very good. I'm saying
that was resolution and I'm still keeping it, even though I made it prior
to the first but I recommit myself to it here and now it's recommitment Day.
It is recommitment day, and I recommit all right, feels good.
I like it. I like getting up earlier, and for a while I
was then after the rosary getting back in bed and working in bed until like
one or two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and then taking a shower
and getting dressed, which was silly. So I'm trying not to do that.
So that's my latest commitment. Now you just don't take a shower at
all, that's right. Why you can get out of bed at all?
I could just live there. People serve me my food. I'm trying to
use the post rosary hour to like, you know, take a shower and
get dressed and get breakfast and stuff like that. So we'll see how long
that lasts. But the praying, praying, I'm in pretty good, so
I'm proud of myself on that, nice nicole. Have you picked up any
good habits? Well, we'll move right along then. Um, I'm paying
more attention to the amount of calories I eat. Paying attention does not mean
doing anything about it, but it's the first step. You can pay attention
by saying, yeah, I bet four thousand calories right there. Can't minimize
my efforts. It's all good. You have to start somewhere. Yeah,
I have a problem is the first step I do get on my my bike
a lot more, my exercise bike. I do do that. I'm sleeping
better, I have better sleep good. Um what else? And then there's
some goals that I just haven't reached yet, and that's okay. Yeah,
yeah, Solili that was the song at theation. Oh oh gosh, that
one just reaches into your tear ducts and squeezes. I know. Surely when
you have a kid for whom to climb, it was particularly no kidding.
Couldn't there have been a tram to take to the top of the man come
on from the Hannah Montana movie. I much prefer the hohdown throwdown. That's
I wish they would have done that. At graduation. We could have all
just got up and done some line dances. Yes, absolutely. Can you
imagine, like the kids were already in lines, they were sitting in chairs
in rows. They could have just stood up and yeah, sounds good,
done it. It's such a good song. Yeah yeah with that soundtrack,
haven't you it's such a good scene in that movie. Oh well, way,
yeah, we still hope, I mean what we have six months left?
Sure? Yes, we do. That's why we're recommitting today. Yeah,
another thing I was going to do At the beginning of the year,
I signed up to this Dance and Co which is an online dance and exercise
program done by various Dancing with the Stars people, and I was going to
do that every morning. And that did not last very long. But I
have just started it again. I am only doing fifteen minutes of each video,
but I am doing them. Yeah, it's been a week. I
did them pay one week. That's a commitment, go me, yes,
so we go. Yes. Well I believe that was That was one of
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