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January 2, 2001

Happy New Year to all. I hope you all had a safe and enjoyable time. We had some friends over on New Year's Eve. This is the third year in a row we've spent New Year's with this family, and it looks like it's becoming a tradition. They have one child, a 6-year-old boy named Connor. Christian considers Connor his best friend and always looks forward to their visits.

If we ever have an odd number of something -- like Popsicles or juice boxes or something -- Christian always wants to save one for Connor. Little John, on the other hand, is getting less and less excited about their visits these days. Whereas the three of them used to play rather well together, Christian and Connor now tend to pair up and John tells me he feels left out. I think the next time we have them over I should probably invite one of John's friends to come over as well.

For the first time in my life, I've actually made New Year's resolutions this year. The most important one is that we are going to start eating healthy again. During this holiday season, we ate out too much, ate way too much junk, and were not terribly active. I can really see that John and I have put on a lot of weight and I can feel a real difference in my energy level.

At my last trip to the grocery store I bought lots of fruits, veggies, beans, and grains. Little John and Christian both love veggies so this "conversion" shouldn't be all that hard. (We had broccoli, carrots and rice for dinner and they were in hog heaven). We've never been a hardcore meat-eating family, but now we are cutting back even more. I'm also going to make the boys' snacks from scratch rather than buying pre-packaged stuff. Exercise is going to be a little tougher to work in, but I'm determined to do it. And now that I've written about it in this diary, I'm hoping this will be a little extra inspiration to stick to the plan.

My other resolution is to try to stop worrying so much. I know this is much easier said than done, but I'm going to try. Sometimes I worry so much about the boys that it will absolutely consume me for a while. This is one of the reasons I'm certain that I don't want any more kids; I can't handle the worry anymore. I worry about the usual things like accidents and illness and healthy self-esteem and things like that, but sometimes it gets out of hand.

If we go to the beach and walk on the pier, by the time we reach the end I've already developed a plan of action in the event that one of the boys falls into the water. When John isn't home at night I worry about how I would get all three boys out in case of a fire. When Little John bought lunch at school for the first time I drove myself crazy thinking that if the tray was heavy and he dropped it, he might be embarrassed and of course he wouldn't have any lunch. I still check all three boys in their beds at night. This is just a small sampling of the things I can drive myself crazy with.

I don't want to let this worrying dominate the way I live and the way I parent, so I'm really going to work on keeping things in perspective and not letting it get out of hand.

And what have John, Christian, and Noah been up to this past week? John has another loose tooth. Christian has discovered calculators and is exploring all the possibilities that go along with them. Noah has had a word explosion, but only I can understand most of what he says.

I'm going to cut this short this week. John (the husband) had the stomach flu today and I am feeling it creep up on me as I sit here. I hope it's mild, doesn't stick around very long, and that the kids manage to avoid it.

Take care and stay well,

Jenn and The Boys



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