My Bucket List
This page is also a post, but I can edit it, as I accomplish things, easier from making it into a “page”. Thanks for bearing with me!
Places
Hawaii (3.11.17)
Italy
Grand Canyon
Washington, D. C. (5.15.15-5.25.15)
Niagara Falls (6-15-14)
Go to a volcano. (3.12.17)
See the world’s largest gavel (6-14-14)
See the world’s largest rubber stamp (6-15-14)
Go to an island (6-15-14 Grand Island, NY; Goat Island, NY 6-16-14, Kona, Hawaii 2017)
Go on a skyway (6-15-14 NY)
See a Broadway (went to see the Lion King. It was a Mother’s Day gift from Big Daddy 2013)
Go to New York (6-15-14 – 6-21-14)
Take a trip with mom and my sisters (July 26, 2019)
See the one remaining ancient wonder of the world, The Great Pyramids of Giza
Go to Jerusalem
See the 7 Wonders of the Modern World (Channel Tunnel, CN Tower (June 2014), Empire State Building, Golden Gate Bridge, Itaipu Dam, Netherlands North Sea Protection Works, Panama Canal)
Visit all 50 states (TN, IL, OH, KY, TX, CA, GA, MO, IA, PA, IN, AK, NY, DC, MD, MI, MS, OK, VA, WV)
Kiss Big Daddy in front of the Eiffel Tower
Be in two states at once
Stand in the middle of Stonehenge (so far I’ve only been to CornHenge and Foamhenge)
Visit 10 capital cities (Frankfort, KY; Little Rock, AR; Nashville, TN; Oklahoma City, OK; Columbus, OH, Richmond, VA )
Float in the dead sea
See the albino squirrels in Olney, IL
Canada (6-17-14)
Disneyworld (June 2009)
Go to Disneyland (February 2019)
Drive Route 66
Things to Learn
Learn to hula dance. (3.14.17)
Get a tattoo (2.26.15; 3.14.15; 1.17)
Learn to pick locks
Master a new language
Learn CPR
Make something homemade (new) (yogurt, granola, cleaners, there is a whole category for the things I have been making)
Learn photography (what a pain in the butt this one is)
Learn chess
Teach a class (taught college Sunday School Class 2015)
Things to Do
See a beaver (it was a dead beaver, but a beaver none the less 12.29.14…its tail and feet were HUGE!!!!!!!!! And because the Lord is sweet, I not only saw ANOTHER beaver, but it was in my friends truck, at church. He let me have the tail. I totally have a beaver’s tail! Thanks, Lee! Oh, and I have my picture taken with the beaver. 2.4.15)
Kiss Big Daddy under a waterfall (American Falls 3-16-14)
Ride in a horse and carriage
Read books for a year…when one ends another begins. Let’s see how many I can read!
Faithfully read Scripture for a year (began 12.27.14 and finished 6/2016
Find a mentor (Ms. Jo Cox beginning 10/14 ended 10/1/2017)
Do an Advent calendar (Dec. 1-Dec. 25, 2014)
Blessings/prayer journal for a year (began 12.27.14-12.31.15)
Go to a restaurant where Big Daddy has to make reservations. (Patti’s Settlement, 11.13.14)
Ride a trolley
Be someone’s mentor (11.12.14)
Get married to the love of my life (6.25.94)
Write a letter to my favorite teacher (5-5-14, Glenda Bittner….my art teacher through middle and high school)
List 10 things I am thankful for an entire month (11-1-14/11-30-14)
Be present at a birth (coming in the spring in 2021)
Serve food a soup kitchen
Paint something at a ceramic shop (created a plate that says “Joy Comes in the Morning” with a tree in the middle 8.7.14)
Take a makeup lesson (Dillard’s 2018)
Be debt free
Learn to use chopsticks (2/14/2014…dinner out at Jasmine’s…learned but not mastered)
Contact someone with my own name (1/5/14…I’m pretty sure she thinks I’m crazy LOL…she even had my middle name, though it was spelled differently).
Daily Christmas activities with kids (12-1-13/12-25-13)
Read the Bible in chronological order
Ride in a limo (Disney send off February 2019)
Write a book
Get my Life Coach certification
Fly first class
Stay at a Bed and Breakfast
Raise my own meat (pig…check; laying chickens…check, meat chickens…check)
Buy someone’s groceries just because (2010)
Pay for the person behind me at the drive-thru (2012)
Have another cat and name it dog (5-1-14, Shirley had kittens…one is black and white and named Dawg)
Go cheese tasting (7.21.14 Amish Country, Ohio…it was wonderful!)
Put our shoes on the MSU shoe tree is a definite Bucket List Item
Perform CPR on a chicken (2-14-14).
Watch 26 Movies I’ve Never Seen Starting With Each Letter of the Alphabet (started 2011 and finished 2013)
Hug a redwood
Discover all the uses for hydrogen peroxide (5-25-14)
Be a grandmother
Complete a 365 project (currently working on since 1-1-14 and finished 12.31.14)
Lose more than 50 lbs
Create a family tree for two of my “born in the heart” children (2016)
Get copies of my family tree (2016)
Ride a segway
Create an emergency kit for home
Wear a mustache while grocery shopping (6-7-14)
Send a card to every family member for their birthday (Began 1.1.15-12.31.15)
Learn how to cut hair (boys hair mastered and not just with clippers!!) (2015)
Graduate all my children (#1 kid 2013, #2 kid 2016)
Have a vehicle emergency kit for all vehicles (Big Daddy’s truck 5-23-14)
Be an organ donor (since I turned 16 and got my license)
Sponsor a child (2013)
Send care packages to soldiers is a part of my Bucket List
Teach someone to read (every one of my children)
Create a photo journal
Stay up 24 hrs. (2013, watching Boo in the hospital)
Adopt a child (2007, 2009, 2016)
Get my Master’s (2013)
Write my will (2010)
Ride a train
In Short
I will continue to add to My Bucket List. This is, hopefully, going to be an ongoing thing for me and my family.
