It's almost 9AM on day one of the "Nothing New Year" and so far: complete success! Actually I'm embarrassed to admit that there's already something I wish I bought yesterday (a black tank for under this one shirt...but...maybe next year?)
Yesterday we had a mini-buying frenzy, but nothing too crazy. "Supplies required by school" is a NNY exception, we needed to replenish our lunch-packing supply (with Juju in kindergarten, 3 lunches going out this year). Scott has always been anti-EasyLunchbox so I compromised by springing for a lunchbox to go OVER the EasyLunchbox so now he won't have to do the tough job of carrying his water bottle in his hand But hey! From here on out, no free (new) lunch (boxes).
Last week we went to an amusement park and I climbed into a roller coaster seat next to the boys and the guy walked by and snapped the big padded collar thing around my neck and I thought--"I don't know if I really want to do this, but there's no going back now." Jonathan is the NNY collar-snapper. It was my idea, but with his iron-clad self discipline and love of noble suffering (it's a mennonite thing?) he was always going to be the NNY star. So after several weeks of me saying "we will start NEXT week!" he finally said, "If we're doing this, let's start TOMORROW." That was a good move on his part, because I never did the kind of REAL buying frenzy that would have happened if I had planned it. So the roller coaster is on the move!
Yesterday we had a mini-buying frenzy, but nothing too crazy. "Supplies required by school" is a NNY exception, we needed to replenish our lunch-packing supply (with Juju in kindergarten, 3 lunches going out this year). Scott has always been anti-EasyLunchbox so I compromised by springing for a lunchbox to go OVER the EasyLunchbox so now he won't have to do the tough job of carrying his water bottle in his hand But hey! From here on out, no free (new) lunch (boxes).
Last week we went to an amusement park and I climbed into a roller coaster seat next to the boys and the guy walked by and snapped the big padded collar thing around my neck and I thought--"I don't know if I really want to do this, but there's no going back now." Jonathan is the NNY collar-snapper. It was my idea, but with his iron-clad self discipline and love of noble suffering (it's a mennonite thing?) he was always going to be the NNY star. So after several weeks of me saying "we will start NEXT week!" he finally said, "If we're doing this, let's start TOMORROW." That was a good move on his part, because I never did the kind of REAL buying frenzy that would have happened if I had planned it. So the roller coaster is on the move!
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