Lists and life

I liked my list idea - in fact, I was over the moon with my list idea... each morning (or the night before) creating a small list of things i want to get done just for that day. A nice short, very 'accomplishable' list. Funny thing was - first list I created - with just 4 items, I managed to not do two of them - that's half the list!! I still felt like I accomplished something, one of the items on the list was just not possibe to do (order contacts - I called the place like 6 times, no answer) and then the other one I just plum forgot. But even though the first try was a bit of a failure, I'm not giving that idea up. This weather is messing with my moods. Up and down the weather goes. Right now we have sunny and warm and so I'm feeling pretty much that - sunny and warm! But tomorrow we're supposed to get snow again and that's just a plain bummer. So, what do I want to accomplish today. Let's try this again!! 1) Pre-prepare dinner for Will 2) Compare prices of Ipod touch from Future Shop and Canex 3) Vacuum (and mop the kitchen) 4) Weight lift/strength training 1/2 hour See, nice and simple (hopefully). Let's see if I can get this one done. As I was walking the dog (beautiful day for it) I realised that at 5 years old, Will is probaby at the best time of his life to enjoy playing and hanging out with him. He's old enough that he can do fun 'adulty' kind of things like bike riding and kicking a ball around and playing with legos, but still young enough that he actually wants to hang out with us! I need to take advantage of that this summer and really spend some quality time with him. The past few months have been a bit too much yelling and not enough having fun. I simply made a choice to stop yelling at him all the time, even if he was misbehaving and it worked. He misbehaved and I just talked to him calmly, maybe raised my voice a little or warned him, but everything calmed quickly and he was back to his normal, happy, helpful, wonderful little boy. Dave followed suit and we've had a much better time of it the last week or two. Will try and keep that one going as well. So on to list item #1 and a productive day!