You Say You Want a Resolution

(♫ Well you kno-o-o-o-ow we all want to change the world… ♫ ) Hello and welcome.Well, it was a record year for the Marottas and that old Christmas tree: it didn’t go up til December 24^th and it came down today. I bought it in early December and every day after that we wanted to drag it inside and decorate it really we did; only I guess we wanted to read our books more. Hence RESOLUTION ONE: invite the kids to come for fun and awesome takeout on the weekend after Thanksgiving next year and get them to put up the darn tree.Second, it was also the first year I finally saw how much I overdo it in the friendliness department, sending a card – no making a card-  each year to then send to people many of whom never ever send one to us. Today I dragged out my list of recipients and realized there are names on there of people I’m not sure I can even place. Hence RESOLUTION TWO: cull 50 people who probably just make fun of my poor little homemade card anyway.Third and last, it was the year I decided how much I love twinkling lights, whether on a wreath or a tree or inside those little gingerbread-type houses that look like they’re made of sugar but will kill you with instant cancer if you even so much as lick them. RESOLUTION THREE: do not put these lights away in the attic behind the ancestors' high school diplomas and the obsessive tinily-lettered  timeline you made to cram for the US History SATs but keep them out and festoon the houseplants with them instead. Classy look!And if my title and first line seem familiar here is why. Have a listen and then let’s go out there and make SURE it’s gonna be all right all right all right. :-)[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrkwgTBrW78]