I’ve created a bucket list of sorts- things I would like to accomplish over the next decade. This list may seem pretty uneventful, but I’ve already experienced the two most amazing things of my life- Zoe and Piper. UPDATE- As always, I am a work in progress. I’ve accomplished a few things and found more to add to the list.
1. Take a trip with my girlfriends and not feel guilty about leaving my kids behind (early thirties would be great)
2. Run a 5k- not the way I run now with the whole start stop deal
3. Keep writing…even if the writing isn’t all that good
4. Find the balls to attempt to publish a book- anyone have a pair I can borrow?
5. Write poetry again…this may happen before thirty…I can feel the words bubbling beneath the surface
6. Find a church that feels like home (I’ve given up on this)
7. Learn how to forgive again- I used to be pretty forgiving, but some wounds are cut pretty deep
8. Take an art class
9. Go to a concert
10. Have more patience
11. Read a minimum of 100 books…keep a list to share with my daughters
12. Overcome my fear of water…or at least tempt fate and swim in the ocean a time or two
13. Minimize the whole guilt complex
14. Learn how to accept a compliment (probably not going to happen)
15. Believe in myself, and pray for those who don’t have faith in me
16. Reconnect with old friends….quit retreating into my own little world when life hurts
17. Minimize my habit of procrastination
18. Inspire change ( I feel like this is happening in minute ways every time I step foot in the door of my current job)
19. Donate blood more often
20. Pay off my student loans (only 2 more years to go!)
21. Start writing down recipes so I have something to pass down to my children (thank Goodness for Pinterest)
22. Do something completely uncharacteristic of myself
23. Smile more (according to my children I have new wrinkles from smiling)
24. Take more pictures with my children instead of just taking pictures of my children…one day they will need something to remember me by ( I’m getting there)
25. Not let how others make me feel impact me negatively
26. Learn how to cry again
27. Go rock climbing
28. Push past the fear of rejection and just go for it
29. Curse a little less…let’s be realistic, I won’t stop completely
30. Decide what I want to be when I grow up
31. Ride on a motorcycle (this has been spoken of many times, just a little slow to officially add to the list)
32. Be the best me I can be
33. Visit a gun range ( I don’t really care to do so any longer)
34. Sky dive (haven’t quite felt brave enough lately)
35. Visit Rocky Ridge Refuge
36. Sing for pleasure again despite stage fright
37. Learn to drive over bridges without having a panic attack
38. Become a better mother
39. Accept that I like food, I like to cook, my summer dresses may not always fit, and be happy despite the extra fluff.
A Work In Progress 