Life List

I started a word document named "Life List" my freshman year of college. I was going through some pretty dramatic changes in my life (as most people do their first year of college), and wanted to write down some of my dreams, goals, and hopes for the rest of my life. Since making that list I have opened it a few times to mark things off and maybe add a few more things. It's funny, because I have changed SO much since then, but I have never taken one thing off the list, just added things to it.
I'm sharing it for fun, because I like thinking about the possibility of all of these things happening.
I smile when I read this list, because I would have never guessed the direction my life would go when I wrote it almost 6 years ago. I don't think I EVER dreamt of crossing of "meet and marry my best friend" and "become a mom" so early in life. Even though this list contains many, many things that might never happen for me; it teaches me to not even think about that they might never happen, because heck, they COULD! I love that.

Swim with dolphins in the ocean

Become a mom

Eat pizza in Italy                                                                                                                  Graduate College

Become foster parents

Adopt a child from foster-care

Dance in a flash-mob

Zip-line through a rainforest

Pay off my student loans as quick as possible

Go on a last minute cruise

Take my kids to concerts

Travel cheaply, and stay in hostels

Adopt a puppy/dog from a shelter

Read the bible cover to cover multiple times

Go to Wrigley Field with my husband

Meet and marry my best friend.

Get backstage passes to a concert

See the Grand Canyon

Have a kitchen with big black and white tile (and teal black-splash…)

Tile a black-splash in our kitchen myself

Go to Hawaii

Teach my dog to play frisbee

Teach my dog to be a therapy dog, and take him/her to hospitals and nursing homes

Stand under the Eiffel tower

Go back to Big Bend with my cousins (my cousins and I went every summer with my grandparents when we were kids)

Have a garden in our backyard and grow our own food

Backpack Europe with our future kids

Whale watch

Have family traditions that our kids love and look forward to

Drive a VW van (this has been a dream of mine since I was in elementary school)

Find the Emmylou Harris Wreaking Ball album on vinyl and give it to Andrew as a present

Have an open shower with more than one showerhead

Make clothes for my kids

Go to a floating lanterns festival

Go skiing with my husband

Find a job that I love AND get to help people at every single day

Live somewhere outside the US for a year, or more

Run a marathon, or a half marathon. I would be happy with either (so, realistically, half.)

See Over the Rhine live

Go to Africa and work in a clinic

Be a stay at home mom when my kids are little ones

Learn Spanish

Meet Oprah

Live close to an ocean

Pay for my kids’ college

Visit my cousins in Boston

Give someone a scholarship for college

Don’t eat sugar for a month

Live on enough land to have a horse or two

Try to surf

Actually learn to surf

Read all the books on our bookshelf (quite a task, I assure you)

Feel confident in a swimsuit

Dye my hair

Learn how to deliver babies and become a midwife

Deliver babies in a third world country

Go to New York and find Central Perk (the coffee shop from Friends) (not sure if it actually exists so this one might be impossible)

Cook dinner every night for a month

Be a mom my kids want to stay in contact with

Have a picnic at the park in Belton where my husband proposed

Learn to salsa dance/ballroom dance

Watch our Bunny Friend boys graduate high school. 

Get a Masters Degree

Own a house with a big front porch

Sit on said front porch rocking on our babies in rocking chairs

Host a foreign exchange student

Learn to play the piano

Get a tattoo

Train for a triathlon

Raise chickens for fresh eggs