Life List

...so I wrote a life list.

This list is one hundred things (in no particular order) I would like do to during my life.

I have seen a few bloggers make their list,

and I decided this is a great idea to do myself. (I actually wrote most of these several years ago, found them in an old journal, and decided to post them - plus new ones.)

I learned more about myself.

You should try it.

Some are simple.

Others are extravagant.

Many are silly,

But to me, they are my dreams.

1. Run a 5k

2. Read every Jane Austen novel

3. Watch all my children live a joyful life

4. Cultivate and maintain a veggie and herb garden

5. Anonymously pay for someone's groceries

6. Do 25 pushups

7. Spend an entire day in bed cuddling with my hubby

8. Hold someone's hand as they give birth

9. Write a thank you letter every day for an entire year

10. Memorize my favorite scriptures

11. Live in Manhattan for a year

12. Go vegan

13. Help someone's dream come true

14. Take photography classes

15. Write my love story

16. Bask under the Tuscan sun

17. Ring in the New Year in Times Square

18. See the Aurora Borealis

19. Get my Masters in Social Work

20. Learn to love where God has me

21. Skydive

22. Watch sea turtles hatch and race to the ocean

23. Spend a chunk of time doing mission work in Thailand or Africa

24. Get paid to do what I love - my payment is watching my babies grow :)

25. Swim with dolphins

26. Take cooking classes

27. Make my own baby food

28. Travel Europe

29. Wear a sequined dress to a party

30. Celebrate my 50th wedding anniversary

31. Swim in the Devil's Pool at Victoria Falls

32. Go wine tasting in Temecula Valley Wine Country

33. Walk through cherry blossoms in Kyoto

34. Read 100 classics

35. Go to Disney World

36. Do a juice fast

37. Dye my hair red black

38. Learn to crochet using a pattern

39. Increase my daily water consumption

40. Compost

41. Become a barista at a unique coffee house

42. Have a spa day with Kristin

43. Eat pizza in Naples, Italy

44. Learn how to throw pottery

45. Cover myself in mud and float in the Dead Sea

46. Get dreads

47. Complete a 52-week photography challenge

48. Run through Central Park

49. Hike to the top of a really tall mountain with my hubby

50. Scuba dive on the Great Barrier Reef

51. Ride in a hot air balloon

52. Stand on Maho Beach in Saint Martin as the planes fly over my head

53. Use cloth diapers

54. Have a wall in my home be covered with my favorite quotes

55. Spend a long weekend at a beach house with the hubby

56. Fly a kite with my kids

57. Beat endometriosis naturally

58. Make pasta from scratch

59. Show love to those who are unloved - I'll be doing this for the rest of my life :)

60. See a Cirque du Soleil in Vegas

61. See a shuttle launch

62. Yell a secret into Niagara Falls

60. Volunteer with an org. that rescues women and children from human trafficking 

61. Become a person who exercises regularly - I have a routine and the goal is to stick with it

62. Read in a French café

63. Cook a full Thanksgiving meal

64. Hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and camp at Havasupai Falls

65. Catch fireflies in a jar

66. Have three months of income in savings account

67. Visit Pike Place Market in Seattle

68. Have a huge front porch with a swing that I can share w/ my hubby on summer nights

69. Tour the Salsa Trail with my hubby

70. Learn to use 100 new words

71. Be 'Auntie H' - Yay, Charlie Grace is here!!!

72. Practice living in the moment, rather than focused on the outcome - another lifetime achievement

73. Learn how to use a sewing machine and make something useful

74. Visit Ireland and drink a pint in a pub

75. Go camping with my hubby and kids

76. Go parasailing

77. Decide, purchase, and use a plane ticket in one day

78. Bake cookies for a neighbor, just because

79. Stay in an over-water bungalow, or a hut in Fiji

80. Sleep in a castle

81. Sponsor a child

82. Read the complete Chronicles of Narnia to my children

83. Waterski {again}

84. Find a mentor

85. Be a mentor

86. Ride a gondola in Venice

87. Paint 

88. See tulips in Portland, OR

89. Take each kid on a solo trip

90. Get a passport

91. Eat a meal I grew myself

92. Hold a plank pose for 90 seconds with perfect form

93. Spend time with my family at the Twin Lakes cabin

94. See each of my children grow up confident in who God made them to be

95. Teach my kids how to read

96. Visit Israel and other places Jesus walked

97. Learn how to whistle

98. Learn how to snap my fingers

99. Learn how to wink

100. Move back to Flagstaff and raise my babies there

101. Make a beautiful baby girl and a handsome baby boy

102. Fall madly, hopelessly in love {still falling}