Summer Bucket List

This morning I was thinking of some nice things to do with my kids today, and asked on Facebook for some suggestions.  I got some awesome suggestions, but some that weren't practical to do on a whim.

So, were not ones who like to sit still, and next summer will be very different with an infant.  SO, let's make the most of this summer right?  Here's my bucket list.

Things to do, see, visit:

1. Visit Dutch Wonderland
2. Visit Columcille
3. Bushkill Falls
4. Visit Catocin Zoo
5. Go to Florida to see my new niece!
6. Visit Gettysburg
7. Visit Colonial Williamsburg

Whew...that's a lot to do on a tiny budget.  Hopefully we can check through it all.  Florida being the big trip for us.  What are your plans for the summer?  Anything exciting?

Bucket list- updated

Two years ago, I made a bucket list and last year while I was on my writing hiatus, I actually accomplished quite a bit.

33.  See Niagara Falls!
73.  Go on a honeymoon!

Hubs and I went last June to celebrate our wedding anniversary.  This one actually killed two birds with one stone because it was also very much a honey moon for us.

62.  Start a successful business.

Well, last January I started a business in Colorado called Finnigan Strings, LTD.  It ran successfully for 5 months until I moved to Maryland.  I may end up doing it again here, but I have to have enough clients here first for it to be a successful endeavor.  It was definitely successful there.  Booming...sadly.  I had to leave it behind and start all over.  If I did it once though, I can do it again!

74.  Be secure with my own spirituality.  

Two years ago this month I met a fabulous group of people who moved me spiritually in ways that are difficult to explain.  My path is called Asatru.  Hail to those who know.

85.  Own my own chickens.

I started my own chicken adventure with these three ladies right here.  The one in the front is a white sussex, the brown one behind her is a mutt back yard mix, and the third in the back you can hardly see is a splash maran, americauna mix who lays pretty olive green eggs.  They have been a blast.  Now I have 4 others who hopefully will start laying in the spring.

Do you have a list?  Have you been chipping away at it too?

Return of the list

So for my hundredth post I wrote a list of things I wanted to do before I die. I have an update on that list, because I have some things to cross off! :)

First one I can cross off this year is #30.  I had my portrait painted!

A friend of mine is a casual artist (she doesn't even call herself an artist, she paints just for the enjoyment).  She honored me earlier this year by putting a photo of my son and I onto canvas.  The original photo was taken in 2003 just after I brought my son (turning 8 in a few days!).  It was taken late at night by my dad.  I was just a new mother trying to figure things out.  The only instructions I think we're ever given by the divine for parenting is simply to love them.  Standing there holding him at that moment, that was all I knew how to do.

Anyway, here is that portrait and one of the things I can cross off my list!

100th Post -- 100 things to do before I die

Well, this is my 100th post on this blog. Never realized I had so much to say. Today, though I thought I'd keep it brief and just go over this list of 100 things I'd like to do before I die.

1. Celebrate my 100th birthday.
2. Be a size 6 again.
3. Go to Ireland.
4. Swim with dolphins.
5. Own a farm.
6. Learn to make cheese.
7. Learn to play the hammered dulcimer.
8. Have another baby.
9. Grow all of my own food.
10. Take my kids to Disney World.
11. See my kids graduate high school.
12. See my kids graduate college.
13. Have my own horse.
14. Learn to spin wool.
15. Learn to Tango.
16. Run a marathon.
17. Hike the Appalachian Trail.
18. Learn to speak Irish.
19. Ride a horse along a beach.
20. Go skinny dipping.
21. Cook and serve an entire meal that I grew.
22. Fly a kite.
23. Be in a movie.
24. Build a tree house.
25. Finish graduate school.
26. Have a manicure/pedicure (yes I've never had neither)
27. Be present at a birth (and not be the one giving birth).
28. Ride in a hot air balloon.
29. Ride a Harley.
30. Have my portrait painted. Completed May 2010!
31. Publish a book.
32. Be self employed.
33. See Niagara Falls.  June 2012!
34. See the Northern Lights.
35. Eat Italian food, in Italy.
36. Spend a week in silence.
37. Throw a surprise birthday party.
38. Have a surprise party thrown for me!
39. Get a tattoo.
40. Make a difference in someone's life.
41. Start a tree growing committee in my town, that donates grown trees to green up the area.
42. Meet Barack Obama.
43. Get my nose pierced.
44. Pay it forward through a toll booth.
45. Sit on a jury.
46. Shower in a waterfall.
47. Visit all 50 states in the US.
48. Go whale watching.
49. Milk a cow.
50. See the Mona Lisa, in person.
51. Be debt free (including mortgage!).
52. Have a house built, from my own plan.
53. Go camping in Yellowstone National Park.
54. See the Grand Canyon.
55. Buy an RV and tour the US with my kids before they grow up.
56. Teach my kids how to canoe.
57. Teach my kids how to fish.
58. Truly follow my heart every day. Live by my heart.
59. Eat a vegan diet for 30 days.
60. After that, try a raw foods diet for 30 days.
61. Visit a medieval castle in Europe.
62. Start a successful business.  January 2012!
63. Volunteer for a humanitarian cause.
64. Foster a rescue animal.
65. Live in a different country for at least six months.
66. Build my own website, with HTML.
67. Be a matchmaker, and attend their wedding.
68. Sleep under the stars, and not in a tent!
69. Nap in a hammock.
70. Get back into yoga, regularly.
71. Learn to crochet.
72. Go on a pic-nic with my family.
73. Have a honeymoon.  (Hubs and I did it for our 10th anniversary, June 2012!)
74. Be secure with my own spirituality. January 2010 -- Found my path as a proud Asatruar.
75. Learn to sail.
76. Join the mile high club.
77. Drink a vintage wine.
78. Watch a movie in a drive-in movie theater.
79. Win the lottery.
80. Go white water rafting.
81. Live in a log cabin.
82. Watch a lunar eclipse. Watched one 12/21/2010! :)
83. Participate in a protest.
84. Get over my fear of crowds.
85. Own my own chickens for eggs. Got my first girls June 2012!
86. Learn to make my own incense.
87. Learn to make natural candles.
89. Replace all the grass in my lawn with perennials that don't need mowing.
90. See hemp become legal in the U.S.
91. See same sex marriage become legal in the U.S.
92. Live in a home that has solar and/or wind powered electricity.
93. See the conflict in the middle east become peaceful.
94. Sew a dress for my daughter.
95. Sew clothes for myself!
96. Learn to make pottery.
97. Have a clean house, from top to bottom.
98. Be wise enough to know what makes me happy.
99. Leave some kind of positive legacy to my children.
100. Live happily ever after.