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Start the New Year Right

Resolutions for Mothers of Multiples

By Elizabeth Lyons

(Hyperion Press, 2003) by Candace Bushnell.

A cluttered home creates a cluttered brain. Moms can't afford any more clutter than already exists. Organize drawers that are currently overstuffed with coloring papers, take-out menus and various sign-up sheets. Arrange the items in your linen closet. Sort out your pantry. This need not be an all-day affair. Dedicate yourself to a location-a-day plan if need be. You'll be amazed by how much more relaxing it is to open a well-organized linen closet than one filled with contents from which you have to cower when opening.

It's easy to procrastinate when making non-critical medical appointments. After all, who has time to sit on hold for long periods of time, waiting to find out how many months will pass before she can be seen? As we listen to classic "on hold" music while the minutes tick, we convince ourselves that we feel just fine and will, therefore, make the appointment another day. Before we know it, it's June and the doctor can't get us in until November!

Dedicate a week this month to making your annual appointments for a physical, well-woman exam, dental cleaning and any other annual appointments you require. Make the appointments for your husband as well. His health is just as important, yet he is likely to go 10 years without seeing a doctor if allowed.

I realize I'm asking you to ad yet another book to the ready-to-topple-over stack presently next to your bed. Yet, if there is one tool that has helped me and many of my friends shuffle through our days with a little less frustration over the small, albeit annoying occurrences of each day, it is their spirituality.

Invest in a book that guides you day by day toward a greater understanding of your purpose, reminds you that there is a greater power at work in your life and gives you the strength and the perspective to conquer the numerous inconveniences – not to mention routine daily activities – that transpire. A few of my favorites: The Purpose-Driven Life (Zondervan, 2002) by Rick Warren, One Day My Soul Just Opened Up (Fireside, 1998) by Iyanla Vanzant and Wisdom of the Ages: 60 Days to Enlightenment (HarperCollins, 1998) by Wayne W. Dyer. For an incredible autobiography about one woman's journey toward understanding her purpose and finding peace, pick up a copy of Flames of Grace

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