A/N: New challenge from Ladygris:
In no less than 300 and no more than 500 words, write a flash of your favorite SGA character(s) making and keeping a New Year's Resolution.

Here is my entry at 494 without ANs. Thanks to Betherdy Babe for brief review. Errors are mine.

Rodney resolved to give up coffee one year. It was barely 9am before his wife nearly poured it down his throat.

Then he resolved to give up working past midnight, which lasted into February before a new piece of Ancient technology came back from Pegasus. An angry Jennifer McKay had General Sheppard send him home.

This year Rodney swore he'd succeed. I'm the Great Rodney McKay, doer of the impossible.

Giggles and laughter echoed around the breakfast table because Annie and Sophia didn't think their father was that great. He couldn't braid hair or paint toenails without making a mess.

Jennifer stifled her laughter because she knew all that he was capable of.

"Rodney, it's almost midnight," Jennifer said, awaiting his resolution.

The astrophysicist leaned forward and whispered in his wife's ear. Her eyes widened. "I don't think you'll be able to do that one either."

"Just watch. When next December 31st rolls around you'll see."

"You can't. There's just no way." She was cut off as the clock struck midnight and her husband's lips covered her own.

After a long breath-taking kiss Rodney tugged his wife away from the crowd. "Let's go. With your dad watching the girls I'm taking advantage of our first New Year's Eve alone in nine years."

The next December 31st found the McKays sitting in their living room joined by General Sheppard as they prepared to welcome the New Year.

"Well?" Rodney asked his wife, a familiar smug look on his face.

"Well what?" John asked, picking up a beer.

"Rodney said he'd give up the team last year and I didn't believe him."

"Is that why you left? Because of a New Year's Resolution?" John looked stunned. "You missed discovering those two ZPMs."

Rodney only grinned. "I got something better than two ZedPMs out of it."

"What could possibly be better than that?" John asked. "No offense to you, Jennifer, or the little princesses."

"None taken, John. I know how important Rodney's work is to him, which is why I didn't believe he'd be able to do it." Jennifer smiled brightly at her husband.

A wail erupted dragging her eyes to the doorway next to John's seat. "Excuse me, but someone's hungry."

As Jennifer left for the nursery, John suddenly nodded and smiled. "Did your wife offer you an incentive?"

"John, you're still a womanizing Captain Kirk after all these years."

"Hey, only pointing out that a beautiful woman can make a man do crazy things."

"Peter was an unexpected blessing for us. We never thought we'd have another after Sophia. Jen believes without the stress of when or if I'd be home, it was easier for her to get pregnant again." Rodney grinned as he grabbed a beer. "A win for everyone."

"Except your ego." John laughed.

"I've accomplished enough. Time to relax and enjoy my family."

"Relax? You do realize that you'll be in your sixties when he's a teenager?"

"I hate you, Sheppard."

A/N: Who's going to take up the challenge next: KoineKid? Destiny? Dale? Ice? DWP? That's right, I'm calling you guys out. ;-D