Bucket List Revisited

Bucket List

 

Having our wonderful son, Jack, has made me want to revisit the bucket lists I’ve created in the past and make some updates.  Looking at ideas online made me realize that I really have experienced some amazing things in my life already.  Marrying my best friend and having our beautiful child are the most amazing things.  Everything else has just been the icing on the cake! 

 

Despite how lucky I feel, I also know that you have to make an effort to accomplish and plan things in order to avoid having any regrets later in life.  Therefore, I’ve come up with the most recent version of my always evolving list! 

 

In no particular order, the items still left from my “old” lists are:

Travel:

Travel to Australia

Travel to Hawaii

Travel to Alaska.      

Swim with dolphins

Go scuba diving and/or snorkeling

Personal Accomplishments:

Create my dream home

Start a business with Eric

Achieve my ideal weight.  I am extremely close to my pre-pregnancy weight due to excellent diet control and exercise.  It feels pretty freaking awesome by the way. 

Run a 10K (this was postponed due to my amazing pregnancy but it is back on!  I am running it on Sunday and am READY!)

Make a positive difference in someone’s life

Become a bit of a minimalist.  This is a lifelong project.  However, I feel some progress each day.  The most recent achievement is that we are not holding on to Jack’s baby “stuff” as he outgrows it.  I am not going to hold on stuff just for the sake of holding on to stuff. 

Take the SPHR test and pass (at my next recertification)

Fun:

Go stargazing

Visit all of the MLB parks with the hubs – making great progress

Complete:

Travel to London. We traveled to London in May of 2010.

Travel to Paris.  We traveled to Paris in May of 2010.

Develop craft/creative blog and post regularly.  This was developed in spring 2010.

Go on a road trip with my hubby, Eric, to places we’ve never been. We visited Pittsburgh in 2011.

Compete in a Triathlon.  I have competed in 2 now!  One per year sounds like an appropriate goal for me.  I am focused more on running now. 

Volunteer to help children in need.  I volunteered with Make a Wish in July 2010 but will continue to do so.  I need to visit this one again.

Plant and grow a garden – completed in 2011

Life changes and then you update your bucket list!

New Items:

Travel:

Travel to Spain as a family

African safari

Family vacation to Yellowstone

Go whale-watching (in Alaska?)

Visit Savannah, Georgia

Go to the lighting of the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center in late November

Create a joint travel bucket list with Eric

Visit the Grand Canyon

Personal Accomplishments:

Climb an impressive mountain

Cooking classes

Improve my photography skills

Decide on my next physical challenge (race, etc.) and do it

Fun:

Take Jack to his first concert

See a Cirque du Soleil show

Own a mustang.  This has been something in my heart since I was 15 or so.  There is no rush on this one, but someday, I will own one!

Try paddle boarding

Removed:

Learn Spanish.  I completed a course at Jackson Community College in 2010 and have moved on from this. I realize now that you cannot really learn and retain a language unless you use it and I don’t have enough opportunity to use Spanish regularly.)

Really learn to golf – Eric and I took lessons.  We know that to get better, we need to go!  We no longer see this as an important goal now that Jack is a part of our life.  We have NEW goals instead.  However, I still have to golf for work a time or two a year and each time, it is a bit embarrassing due to my extreme rustiness!

Plant and grow tomatoes.  Our most recent living adventures have changed this goal.  My new focus is on eating more fresh/local foods.  We love the Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market and if life ever slows down at all, I plan to make this somewhat of a regular thing. 

Updated List:

Travel:

Travel to Australia

Travel to Hawaii

Travel to Alaska.      

Swim with dolphins

Go scuba diving and/or snorkeling

Travel to Spain as a family

African safari

Family vacation to Yellowstone

Go whale-watching (in Alaska?)

Visit Savannah, Georgia

Go to the lighting of the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center in late November

Create a joint travel bucket list with Eric

Visit the Grand Canyon

Personal Accomplishments:

Create my dream home

Start a business with Eric

Achieve my ideal weight.  I am extremely close to my pre-pregnancy weight due to excellent diet control and exercise.  It feels pretty freaking awesome by the way. 

Run a 10K (this was postponed due to my amazing pregnancy but it is back on!  I am running it on Sunday and am READY!)

Make a positive difference in someone’s life

Become a bit of a minimalist.  This is a lifelong project.  However, I feel some progress each day.  The most recent achievement is that we are not holding on to Jack’s baby “stuff” as he outgrows it.  I am not going to hold on stuff just for the sake of holding on to stuff. 

Take the SPHR test and pass (at my next recertification)

Climb an impressive mountain

Cooking classes

Improve my photography skills

Decide on my next physical challenge (race, etc.) and do it

Fun:

Go stargazing

Visit all of the MLB parks with the hubs – making great progress (click here to see our progress)

Take Jack to his first concert

See a Cirque du Soleil show

Own a mustang.  This has been something in my heart since I was 15 or so.  There is no rush on this one, but someday, I will own one!

Try paddle boarding