What’s your half-year resolution? Mine is to be selfish and vain…

Did you know that we are nearly half-way through 2010? Yep…the half-year mark is just about a month and half a way already. Did you make any New Year’s resolutions? I usually don’t make any formal ones if I can help it. I’m not so great at thinking clearly in the middle of a dark Minnesota winter!

But I’ve been thinking about doing “Half-Year Resolutions” instead mostly because the weather is nicer and I feel more inspired, but also because sometimes having a deadline to work with is easier for me to help stay motivated.

So my “Half-Year Resolution” is a strange one:

My Half-Year Resolution is to be more selfish and vain. Yep, I’m going all “the witch in Sleeping Beauty”! =)

Let’s think about this. The witch in Sleeping Beauty surely wasn’t a nice person. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t plan on becoming mean and vindictive. But…she had a point. She looked in that mirror every day and she asked it, “who’s the most beautiful of them all?” and she always got the answer she wanted. Well, until that last time anyway!

But the point is that I haven’t asked myself that question in, oh…about three years…which just coincidentally is almost how long it’s been since I became a mom. I’ve been in “mom mode” to almost an extreme. I haven’t been spending any money on myself (except for my business),  I rarely treat myself to a beauty treatment or some pampering, and I just have in general, put myself so far on the back burner that I’m nearly falling off the stove!

In short, I’ve let myself go. When I go shopping, even if I have the intention to buy myself something, I spend my time looking at stuff for my son instead. My time in stores is short, so I tend to just say, “Oh, next time I’m here I’ll look for myself” and more often than not, that doesn’t happen for weeks and weeks.

So yesterday I took two department store gift cards that I’d been hanging on to (mostly because we don’t have a location really close to us, and recently I also learned the darned store doesn’t take it’s own gift cards online) and I shopped until every penny was spent.

AND I SPENT EVERY PENNY ON MYSELF.

At first, I felt a little guilty, but it did feel good to come home with stuff for myself for a change. Not to mention that my kiddo is like the Imelda Marcos of clothes for boys….he has plenty!

Then, after the kiddo went to bed, I slathered on a coat of my favorite mask and did a mini-facial. I went to bed recharged, refreshed and ready to do it again. Soon!

So my half-year resolution is to start taking care of myself better. If I don’t, who will? Now, I’m kidding when I say I plan to be “selfish and vain”, but that’s what indulging myself felt like since becoming a Mom. Like maybe I was out of line spending time and money on myself. I realize now, that it’s not…it’s necessary!

Do you take time for yourself like that? If not, what stops you? If you do, share your favorite way of taking care of yourself! I need ideas, I’m out of practice!! =)