Have you ever written a bucket list? It is surprisingly hard to come up with 50 measurable and attainable things that you may want to accomplish. Since none of us knows how long we will live, I've decided to write a 50 before 50 list and hope for the best!
I started this list last fall and its taken me this long to complete it and post it. The ones in bold I've since accomplished!
1.) Write a bucket list and publish it for all to see and hold me accountable!
2.) Visit Alaska with my children in the summer.
3.) Go whale watching with my children and see a few whales!
4.) Visit Italy for at least 2 weeks
5.) Spend a month in a Spanish speaking country where I'm forced to speak and learn Spanish
6.) Go on a missions trip with my family
7.) Adopt a baby...or two...
8.) Learn what everything on my camera does and means
9.) Visit all 10 wonders of the world with my husband
10.) Visit the rain forest with my family
11.) Go on a RV Field Trip through the United States
12.) Visit the Grand Canyon
13.) See Mount Rushmore
14.) Stay with an Amish family for a weekend and see how they live.
15.) Spend at least 2 weeks in Australia with my family
16.) Spend at least 2 weeks in Hawaii with my family
17.) Visit Greece and Santorini with my husband
18.) Explore Italy's Amalfi Coast
19.) Get my picture taken in-front of George Clooney's Villa in Italy---or with him!
20.) Go to Dubai and see what the fuss is all about
21.) Write a book
22.) Speak at the FPEA Homeschool convention
23.) Complete scrapbooks for each of my children that has their baby book and first 18 years documented
24.) See each of my children marry
25.) Be at the hospital for the birth of each of my grandchildren or with my children when they meet their adopted child for the first time.
26.) Get comfortable sharing my testimony
27.) Renew my vows with my husband wearing my original wedding dress
28.) Breed Guinea Pigs
30.) Own a Labradoodle
31.) Home educate my children until middle school
32.) Own a 12 passenger Sprinter Van
33.) Take a a 10-day road trip with my family
34.) Finish decorating my house
35.) Learn to be more "present"
36.) Keep healthy boundaries with people instead of being afraid of confrontation
37.) Grow my hair out, again
38.) Plant a garden
39.) Go to Bali with my husband for our 12 or 15 year anniversary
40.) Shop at Harrods
41.) Go on the QE2
42.) Take my children on an African Safari for a month
43.) Visit the Dominican Republic
44.) Learn to golf
45.) Visit the top 10 United States Landmarks with my family
46.) Swim with a manatee
47.) Take my children to swim with a dolphin
48.) Read the entire bible
49.) Get all of my finances on Quickbooks
50.) Try a new recipe every week for a year
As you can see travel is on the top of my list. I really love traveling and one of my goals this year is to not let having 5 kids stand in the way of my seeing the world, hopefully with them. There is a big world out there and I want to see it and share it with my family!
4 comments:
I love your Bucket List! I have so many on mine too. I'm now motivated to sit down and write them all out! Thanks!
i like your new recipe idea... although i am not so good about keeping up with things for a whole year, especially when you throw in travel and all the crazy life mommy stuff that comes up.
traveling is fun. i think US landmarks is great when they are younger and the international travel (especially with the long flights) is much easier when they are 7. which, coincidentally, is the age they can ride in first class for us. *cough* i am so spoiled.
my brother in law and his friend started a travel website called www.wanderberry.com. you can login and they have a ton of lists you can check-off. it's fun to see where you've been and gives you ideas of other places to travel.
i hope you have a great time in LA!
love,
marsha
Read the entire Bible is at the top of my list. I think 50 is too many things for me to come up with... though I guess I have accomplished some of the things on my mental list. My hubby & I renewed our vows on our 10 year anniversary, and plan to renew them every 10 years. I want to finish writing a book and publish it. I want to get comfortable sharing my testimony/the gospel; actually I want to get bold sharing the gospel. I also have this crazy idea that I thought of again today: I'd like to know the Bible so well that I can use the word of God as everyday conversation (not just in conversation, but make His words my vocabulary). I want to tie so many strings with my children that they know how much I enjoy being with them as people, not just because they are my children.
You did a great job on your list! I have one too that's over 200 items long, but it has taken many years! Best of luck!
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