I am very impressionable...

This is not new information to most of you.  I am strong and opinionated and I do what I want, when I want, but on the other hand.... I am an advertisers DREAM.  Example.  I LOVE my Droid X phone.  After years of whining about wanting Verizon to get the iphone, Verizon annouced they are getting the iphone!!  ...and I didn't even care.  My phone is better than an iphone.  Couldn't have cared less.  Until the commercials started.... 'the wait is over...."  "iphone and verizon... finally together..." "2.10.11"  After every commercial I have a brief moment of "OOOOOhhhh...  I WANT!!"  WHY!??  I DON'T WANT... I AM  SUCH A SUCKER FOR HYPE!!!!

Anyhoo.  My latest suck-in is the Kindle.  I'm sure it has NOTHING to do with the fact that Nicole just got one too.  NOTHING AT ALL!  The "clincher" was I saw a news story about a new book 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.'  I went on Amazon to buy the book and the kindle version was $2 cheaper.  So CLEARLY... I NEEDED a Kindle!!  It practically pays for ITSELF!!  (LOL)

So I am reading my new 'book' on my new Kindle... and the book is completely consuming my thoughts and making me question my parenting.  My kids are freakin' spoiled and undisciplined!  I don't want to be a 'Tiger Mother' and threaten to burn their toys if they don't complete the full daily 90 minute piano lesson... but I also don't want to be the mother who I am.  The mother who lets the kids quit everything they start because "it's boring..."  "it's too hard..." The mother who does not expect excellence and perseverance from my kids and falls for every excuse rather than fight with them about it...."I don't want to practice guitar right now, I'm at the last level of this game."  "I know you said I had to clean my room, but there is a party at _____ tonight, Can't I do it tomorrow?"  (and if you couldn't guess, tomorrow never comes)

One of the things she says in the book that really stuck with me was that NOTHING that you have to learn is fun until you are good at it!  So if you don't work to get good at things... you are NEVER going to have fun!

So... It's time to have some "FUN" here at the Jordan house!  LOOK OUT!!

What happens when football season ends?

Seriously.  I never thought I would be the girl who lives and breathes NFL.  The Jets were the underdogs against the Pats yesterday and we had a house full for the game... a house full of Pats fans!  I said before the game that win or lose, I am SO happy with this team and this football season.  Football has brought together great friends, great food, and great fun for the past few months.  The fact that the Jets are KICKING ASS is just icing on the cake!!

Back to school tomorrow.  Ugh.  I should be more excited.  I know I want to be a teacher.  I even took the opportunity to "teach" while driving Jessi and her friends to the mall today.  We had a great discussion about Martin Luther King Day and what it means, and how our lives are different because of him, and how they may be different had he never existed.  It was great!!!

I will leave you with the BEST POST GAME INTERVIEW EVER!!  It made me want to join the team and run onto the beat and beat the Pats asses all over again!!!



P.S.  As to the answer of my opening question.... It's not baseball or basketball.  Puke to both!

2010 in a nutshell and in no particular order

We went on a cruise.
We had lots of parties.
We lost Sampson :(
We went to see Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber in concert.
I became my office's official photographer.
Jessi cheerleaded... and then decided she was done with that.
Some of my favs got engaged.
Some of my favs a got pregnant.
Jessi started High School.
Sean played football.
Jessi played Field Hockey.
Jessi was out for the season with a knee injury.
I ran TWO 5k races!
I lost some weight.
I started biking.
We went to see the Black Eyed Peas.
We bought tickets to the Jonas Brothers and didn't go.
We finally went to Popham Beach.
We became a house of rabid football fans.
I watched 'Hard Knocks.'
I fell in love with the New York Jets.
I got closer to to being a certified teacher.
Rick didn't get a moose permit.
All the boys shot deer.
Jessi got braces.
I had some drama.
I fell back in love with Black Friday.
We got a new fridge.
We saw Nickelback and Three Days Grace and Buckcherry... and then the next night saw Toby Keith and Trace Atkins.
I had to get glasses :(  Jessi did too.
I finally tried Eggs Benedict, yum.

I have ONE resolution this year... and it's a BIGGIE....

To focus on the things in my life that REALLY MATTER and NOT on the things that DON'T!!!!!!