Also called a Bucket List, but I prefer Life List. Less morbid. And I don’t think my life is incomplete if I don’t do all these things… I’m already exorbitantly blessed beyond belief.
I’ll check things off as I accomplish them. Written in random order.
- Get a book published ✔️
- Get another book published ✔️
- Write a young adult fiction novel
- Meet J.K. Rowling
- Set foot on all 7 continents
- Set foot on all 196(ish) countries
- Live in a different country for awhile ✔️
- Get married ✔️
- Have children ✔️
- Live near the mountains ✔️
- Live near the beach
- Take a cooking class ✔️
- Visit Paris ✔️
- Spend at least a month in Paris
- Learn French
- Live in France
- Visit Hawaii ✔️
- Visit Tuscany ✔️
- Visit the British Isles ✔️
- Visit New Zealand ✔️
- Visit Australia ✔️
- Visit Iceland
- Visit Alaska
- Build a house from scratch
- See the Great Wall of China ✔️
- See the Pyramids
- Become a good gardener ✔️
- Visit Thailand ✔️
- Get a tattoo ✔️
- See a play on Broadway ✔️
- Spend at least a month in New York City
- Attend a film festival
- Learn how to sail
- Sail around the world with Kyle
- Backpack through Europe with Kyle
- Take each of my kids on a one-on-one trip
- See each of my children grow up confident in who God made them to be
- Visit Ireland ✔️
- Spend at least a month in Ireland
- Take a cross-country family road trip and visit all 50 U.S. states
- Go to Yellowstone ✔️
- See Mt. Everest (notice I said see, not climb)
- Spend time on a Greek island ✔️
- Save up enough for a quality retirement
- Teach my kids financial responsibility
- Take each of my kids to visit their Compassion sponsored child – almost!
- Go SCUBA diving ✔️
- See the Great Barrier Reef ✔️
- Eat the most delicious piece of chocolate in the world ✔️
- Drink the most delicious wine in the world ✔️
- Spend at least a month in London — almost!
- Become a good photographer
- Take a photo every day for a year
- Swim with dolphins
- Ride in a hot-air balloon
- See the Northern lights
- Go on a big vacation with my entire extended family
- Be part of a Flash Mob ✔️
- Go on a really long bike ride
- Become a runner
- Fly on a Concorde jet
- Attend a TED Conference
- Learn how to knit
- Run a guest house
- Go on an African safari ✔️
- Significantly help a charity I’m passionate about
- Have a wraparound porch
- Be a grandparent that my grandkids want to be around
- Get 8 hours of sleep every night for one month.
- Stand on Red Square ✔️
- Visit Israel ✔️
- Open a Swiss bank account (just to say I have a Swiss bank account)
- Whisk Kyle away on a completely surprising trip ✔️
- Visit The Eagle and The Child ✔️
- See Loy Krathong, the sky lantern festival in Thailand ✔️
- Learn how to make good tortillas
- See Andrew Bird in concert ✔️
- Learn how to whistle
- See Arcade Fire in concert
- See U2 in concert ✔️
- See U2 in concert… again
- Have a big anniversary party with Kyle
- Teach all my kids to read ✔️
- Remodel a house – in progress!
- Take the kids to the spot on the dirt road in Kosovo where Kyle and I met ✔️
- Become debt-free ✔️
- Leave a $100 tip for a waitress ✔️
- Go ice skating in Rockefeller Center at Christmastime
- Ski the Alps
- Drive on the Autobahn
- Go to Smithsonians ✔️
- Visit Colonial Williamsburg ✔️
- Swim in the Mediterranean ✔️