MamaBlogger365 - You Don’t Need A New Year to Make A Change by Jennifer Covello

It’s a new year. 2012. Lots of fanfare and hype about this year. Is it true? Who knows? But no matter what, it’s a time when we all tend to reflect on the year that has just passed and decide how we want the next one to be.

I’m not one for resolutions and I typically don’t make them. I’m more of a “resolve as I go” kind of person where, throughout the year, I look at where I am at in my life journey and see where I can make course corrections to improve my life.

Where do I find this inspiration? Usually from the people around me. Are they happy? Are they fulfilled? Are they at peace? I look at my children and see where they are in their lives and ask the same questions. Are they happy? Healthy?

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MamaBlogger365 - Don't Let Me Be the Decider by *Dr Mama* Amber Kinser

Look. I’m a pretty good decision maker. I make decisions slowly and mindfully; I try to gather as much information as I can and I consider it carefully before settling on a course of action. I am mocked at times by my family for never being able to pony up a decision except after a time. “We thought maybe we would all do X together. It’s not till next month but I know you have to THINK about everything,” my sister will say.

I like to spend hours looking at cookbooks and planning. In the early spring I like to look through gardening books and research which flowers are best for xeriscaping, or which grow in clay, and which of those come up when and which combinations will offer both various heights and various blooming periods. When I’m taking a trip I spend a lot of time looking through options on the Internet — flights, hotels, the proximity of my lodging to restaurants and whether or not the place has — hope against hope — a regular stinking coffee maker or one of those blasted single-cup numbers (and I’m not talking Keurig either). And lots of times I emerge with outcomes I’m happy with. But sometimes, well.

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MamaBlogger365 - Motherhood is Otherhood by *Dr Mama* Amber Kinser

Mothers are, no more or less than anyone else, flawed human beings. We move through life, sometimes at a clip, sometimes more mindfully and cautiously, and sometimes we slog through life junctures and phases. And, not less but probably more than many, we are positioned to make decisions that affect other people, often profoundly, even though we rarely have all the information we need before we make those decisions, since so much of it unfolds slowly through time, becoming most readily available only in retrospect.

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