In lieu of the New Year and my recent resolution to LIVE life with purpose, conviction, and without regrets, I have made a "bucket list" of sorts; things I want to accomplish, see, do, change, be, enjoy (not necessarily in this order)...
Some are long-term, some are short-term, some are ongoing lifestyle changes, and some may never happen in this lifetime. But you have to have goals or you'll become stagnant. So these are mine. I'm sure as I get older this will change and expand. And, Lord willing, I'll be able to cross most of them off.
So, without further adieu... (See key below for color coding.)
- Go to bed each night with a clear conscience knowing I have no regrets
- Kiss my husband and son every day and tell them how much I love them
- Read more books to Elijah
- Teach Elijah Spanish
- Have at least one date night per month with Manny
- Be more faithful in my devotion/prayer time
- Lose 20 pounds
- Keep my toenails painted and my legs shaved - because it matters to Manny
- Be more forgiving and tenderhearted
- Cook a new recipe at least once a month
- Get in shape
- Keep a clean house
- Study... and I mean really study the Bible consistently
- Be a better listener
- Be less critical in general, but mostly to my husband
- Get more involved in church
- Volunteer my time
- Potty-train Elijah
- Live debt-free!!
- Make Baklava from scratch
- Make 10 good long-lasting friendships - old or new
- Get replacement windows for downstairs
- Watch less television.
- Get rid of TV altogether for that matter (drastic I know)
- Own a nice grown-up camera
- Take a photography class
- Take some refresher Spanish classes
- Finish all my scrapbooks
- Excavate our back yard for gardens, play area, and sitting area
- Landscape the hill with a path and lots of plants
- Plant 1000 tulips, lily, hyacinth, daffodil, and crocus bulbs all around my house
- Grow all my own vegetables
- Learn to can produce
- Make home-made ketchup
- Make home-made wine
- Get an hour-long massage
- Get a facial
- Read the entire Bible
- Have more babies
- Try sushi
- Take a hot-air balloon ride
- Go to Mexico - preferably the Yucatan
- Go camping in Yosemite National Park
- Try water skiing
- See the play Our Town
- See Josh Groban in concert
- Drive through the Redwood Forrest
- Visit Moxi in Costa Rica
- Read The Sun Also Rises
- See a Broadway show
- Put together a scrapbook of my family's old photographs
- Go on another short-term mission trip
- Remodel our kitchen
- Remodel our downstairs bathroom
- Pay off our house
- Own a Honda Pilot
- Go on a Mediterranean cruise
- Find my childhood friend Laurie Hanning
- Make a video documentary of my Grandparent's lives
- Tour the California wine country
- Learn to crochet
- Paint a mural
- Learn to surf
- Swim with dolphins
- Stay at a Bed and Breakfast in New England in the fall
- Attend an opera
- Compile my genealogy and Family Tree
- See a baseball game at Wrigley Field
- Meet Kay Arthur
- Backpack across western Europe
- See Niagara falls
- Repel down a cliff
- Hike down (and back up) the Grand Canyon
- Spend 4th of July in Boston
- See Machu Picchu first hand
- Drive a race car (at regular speeds of course)
- Go to an Olympic event
- Swim in the Dead Sea
- Go up in the Statue of Liberty
- Walk on the Great Wall of China
- See at NASCAR race in Bristol, Tennessee
- Swim in a natural hot spring
- Ride a ZIP line through a rain forest
- Sing the Hallelujah Chorus (with full orchestra) in Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Italy
- Spend Christmas in a village in the Alps Mountains
- Listen to live Celtic Music in concert at a castle in Scotland
- Visit the Holy Land at Passover
- Become a wedding planner
- Recite the poem Cordoba: Lejana y Sola in (of course) Cordoba, Spain
- Spend Mardi Gras in New Orleans
- Spend St. Patrick's Day in Ireland
- Go to Culinary school
- Learn Midwifery and deliver babies
- Stand on top of a mesa in Sedona, AZ and watch the sun set
- Be a volunteer "baby rocker" at the hospital
- See Aswish Germany
- Take every Precept class available
- Build our dream house/cottage in the woods
- Attend Elijah's college graduation - magna cum laude, of course (and all our other kids' for that matter)
- Have my children "rise up and call me blessed"
Immediate **
1 year **
5 years **
10 years **
Hopefully someday **
4 comments:
What an absolutely wonderful list! I, too, have been working on something similar, but haven't finished it yet...maybe that will be my post for the new year. You have some awesome goals.
I, for one, would love to be a part of #21:-)
Happy New Year!
I wish I could just copy and paste your list into my own bucket list. It is truly inspiring! I have loved reading about the woman you have become - you are an AMAZING one girl!! I love #100 - Proverbs 31 right?
Great list! It is inspiring! Good luck with it!
OOhhhh I made a bucket list when those mad scientists built the Big Bang machine in Switzerland. But mine was more about Joe Jonas so that's embarrassing.
Glad you de-lurked!
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