What Does The Fox Say, Resolutions, And Other Epic Things

Admit it, you saw the first part of this blog title and in your head started singing "ding ding ding ding ding ding ding". This song has been a staple of our bedtime dance parties, as well as our breakfast wake up music.  If you haven't caught on, music is on in our house A LOT! And with winter in full effect (oh to update our snowmageddon was much more of a rain/icemageddon and we survived) music is our way of burning energy.  Because when we don't have our amazingly awesome dance parties things like this happen.

Yes,this is a disaster, but I'm choosing to look at them emptying their drawers and half the bathroom to decorate their bedroom a win.  Because I know I will now get at least twenty more minutes of quiet while they clean it all up.   This picture is the story of my life, happy chaos.  I'm sure I'm not the first to use this description and I doubt I'll be the last, but this picture is the epitome of our lives.  Which leads me to the real point of this blog, new years resolutions (stick with me, I promise you will see the connection soon).

Every new year brings out a slew of New Year's Resolutions and I am no different.  So here we go with my list of resolutions for 2014:
1. I will first buy a sewing machine and then learn how to use it because I have pinned a bunch of really cute clothes for the girls and myself to make.
2.  I will learn how to play guitar because think of how our dance and karaoke parties will go from amazingly awesome to epic.
3. I will stop using words like epic.
4. And this may be the most important one, I WILL LEARN TO SAY NO.

Unfortunately I have already ruined my 4th resolution.  You see, I say the Zielonka Household is basically surviving in a state of happy chaos and I have this gut feeling I am the cause of that.  While I am an organized person (when people aren't throwing random trash and food scraps on my desk) I tend to over commit myself.  Whether I am agreeing to help fund raise for an organization, organize a holiday event, or write a grant, if you ask me to help I will say yes 9.8 times out of 10.  This leads to our days being filled with going from here to there and back, a state of happy chaos(see it all comes together now!).  We always seem to be on the go.

How exactly have I failed my fourth resolution already you ask?  Well we are on the 11th day of the month and I have already agreed to work on a fundraising campaign and help organize an event.  And to make it worse I technically broke my resolution before the new year even started!  There is a reason for this though, I love helping people.  I love organizing events and while I don't love asking people to donate money if I believe in the reason they are fundraising, I am willing to help out.  I know I could just as easily say no.  I mean let's face it, I have a built in excuse, the two girls who sound more like they are re enacting the best of wrestle mania instead of cleaning up all those clothes upstairs.  Obviously they could use some parental guidance.  But the problem is, I love helping other people and I love being involved.

SO I have decided to amend New Years Resolution Number 4.  I will learn to not over commit, which means technically I'm going to have to learn to say no every once in while.  I have talk to a few recovering over committers and they have assured me once I say my first no I will feel liberated.  I have yet to drink the no juice, but I promise when the first opportunity strikes and it finally happens I will be sure to let you all in on the celebration.  But until that day I will keep saying "yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes" (admit it you just sang those to What Does the Fox Say).

To update on the success of my other resolutions:
1. I have yet to buy a sewing machine, but I did sew a tear in a jacket and even though it came out about three hours later, I'm counting this a victory.
2. I have yet to buy a guitar, but I can picture me playing it in my head and it's pretty cool.
3.  I didn't say it was pretty epic in the previous sentence so I am calling this one a WINNER!

Ok, so one out of four isn't bad, right?