Life List

View each installment every Sunday for the next couple of months.  Read the blog posts for comments/explanations of each portion of the list.


1.  Record for the blind.
2.  Become conversational in German, American Sign Language, and either Spanish or Italian.
3.  Teach/lead a high quality preschool program.
4.  Teach a college class.
5.  Visit Germany with Chris.
6.  Rent a cabin in the mountains.
7.  Rent a place on the beach with nothing to do but sun, sand, ocean and family.
8.  Be a professionally published author.
9.  Visit the New England states.
10.  Take Chris to Las Vegas.
11.  Spend a long weekend on Mackinac Island.  
12.  Have a family reunion.
13.  Turn my master bedroom into my "dream" bedroom.  We're getting close!  
14.  Hike some of the Appalachian Trail.  
15.  Cook a whole chicken in the oven.  
16.  Make a dessert from scratch.  
17.  Figure out the perfect smoothie recipe, and eat one (drink one?) regularly.  
18.  Go camping with the whole family.  
19.  To have less than one month's paycheck in debt at any one time, except the mortgage.
20.  To teach my children simple phrases in many different languages.  



21.  Have a vegetable garden in my yard. 
22.  Enter and win a contest or competition.  
23.  Nurse my children for a year.  
24.  Have a vase full of flowers sitting on my kitchen table, that grew somewhere in my yard.  
25.  Find a creative photography project, and see it through to completion.  
 26.  Study a historical period in great depth.  I
28.  Go somewhere with Chris where he has to wear a tuxedo.  
29.  Take pictures from a hot air balloon.  
30.  Order a meal in a foreign country in that native tongue.  
31. Buy ingredients for each meal every day, for a week, from fresh markets or fruit/veggie stands.
32. Take a family road trip, document what we learned and how we learned it along the way.
33. Take dance lessons.
34. Attend a function in a beautiful hat.  Preferably where someone is not inclined to say, look at that old lady in that weird hat.
35. Photograph 50 of the same subject matter, create a photo poster.  I've started on doors. It's slow going to find interesting ones around here.
36. Crochet something cute and useful. Besides a pot holder, which I don't do anyways. Probably something for the girls.
37.  Crochet blankets for the needy.
38.  Go one week without computers or television -- that includes the smart phone date package.  Chris did not like this one...I think he's hoping that since this is my Life List this one will NOT include him....)
39.  Print all pictures currently stored on the computer.
40.  DO SOMETHING with all the photos I print out.

 41.  Create an annual Year in Review photo book.
42.  Camp on the beach.
43.  Delve more into the world of webistes...find a way to earn some money through the web.
44.  Pay for a vacation in cash.
45.  Go snowboarding.
46.  Take Chris skiing.
47.  Go sledding down a very large hill with my family.
48.  I had swim with dolphins on here at this number.  I'm not sure if this is really something I want to be on a life list.  I mean, it would be cool to do, but I'm not sure it is an adventure i really feel the need to seek out.  This one might be replaced.  AH!  An idea.  I'm replacing it right now with go Snorkeling.  Totally good goal for me, seeing as my intense distrust of water...but something intriguing to me.
49.  Take an overnight kayaking trip.
50.  Celebrate many years of marriage to Chris.

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