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"    Lately, I&amp;#039;ve been in a mom-rut, stuck on a seemingly endless playground-library-singalong circuit that is frying my brain and probably my kids&amp;#039; as well. So, inspired by Maggie Mason&amp;#039;s Mighty Life List, I&amp;#039;ve decided to make my New Year&amp;#039;s resolutions a bit differently this year. Instead of focusing on things I want to do on my own, my creative consultant Harper (a.k.a. my three-year-old daughter) and I worked together to come up with a list of activities we all want to do together. So, as Harper says when she gets really excited about something: &amp;quot;Let&amp;#039;s do that sometime!&amp;quot; 1. Go to story time at the famous New York City kids&amp;#039; bookstore Books of Wonder. 2. Try 12 new foods. 3. See Uncle Ben, who lives halfway across the world in California. 4. Visit the Children&amp;#039;s Museum of the Arts. 5. Make a stop-motion-animation movie with Daddy. 6. Go to Grand Central Station. 7. Take a day trip to Storm King Art Center. 8. Go to Madeline&amp;#039;s high tea at the Bemelmens Bar. 9. Celebrate Harper&amp;#039;s fourth birthday and Alton&amp;#039;s second birthday with a Charlie and Lola party. 10. Learn to write &amp;quot;Harper.&amp;quot; 11. Grow a tiny garden in our community garden container this summer. 12. See a play. 13. Visit the original Winnie-the-Pooh at the New York Public Library. 14. Go to a children&amp;#039;s art workshop at the Museum of Modern Art. 15. Skype with grandparents at least once a month without trying to shut it off to watch YouTube videos. 16. Ride one of the up-and-down horses on the carousel. 17. Take a swimming lesson. 18. Do 12 science experiments. 19. Draw a lot of Harper and Alton stories (during Alton&amp;#039;s naps). 20. Get new books from the library every week. 21. Learn to make kettle corn.  22. Write a children&amp;#039;s book.  23. Take a boat ride. 24. Have Harper and Alton get their first real haircuts in a hair salon. 25. Go to Chicago to visit Nani and Boppa with, Harper insists, a new suitcase of her own. 26. Ride a new kind of train. What are you and your kids going to do this year?   Amy Shearn is the mother of two small children, and is the proprietress of Household Words, a blog about babies, books, and Brooklyn. She also writes for Oprah.com and MommyPoppins.com. Amy is the author of the novel How Far Is the Ocean From Here (Shaye Areheart/Crown 2008) and a forthcoming novel about, what else, a Brooklyn mother, called The Mermaid of Brooklyn that will be published by Touchstone, an imprint of Simon &amp;amp;amp; Schuster, in 2013. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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