{I started this post MONTHS ago} Finally time to finish it up. Everything below this to #45 was what I wrote in June. I added the other 55 things and now I’m calling it a wrap!
I was catching up on some blog reading (in JUNE!) when I came across a new post over at Little Miss Momma. It referenced a post she did in early May – My Life List – and it really struck a cord with me. As a mom I sometimes feel like the things I dreamed of always doing are on hold. This really is not the case.
As I read Ashley’s post I realized that I am already doing the things I always dreamed of – just not in the order I thought I would. What does order matter? Nothing ever stays in order anyways! With New Years upon us I decided not to make a resolution, but instead to share my list and hope to cross a few things off this year! 
- Start a website with blog images/layouts/etc.
- Get my bachelor’s degree
- Raise my boys to have manors
- Eat sushi more often
- Contribute to a savings account on a regular basis
- Start a 401K
- Get my Master’s degree
- Teach college level design courses
- Go to NYC
- Move out West (CO, WY, UT ?)
- Create an account on ancestry.com
- Go home for a visit (Rochelle, IL)
- Run a half marathon
- Stand on the corner of Rodeo Dr.
- Buy a house
- Have my own space to craft and create
- Go to Germany
- Learn German
- Go to a blog conference
- Watch my children get married
- Meet my (very far in the future) grandchildren
- Read a book to my boys every night!
- Participate in a shooting competition with my husband
- Learn all I can about photography
- Take pictures on the manual settings
- Help my sister plan her wedding
- Have a booth at a craft show or famers market
- Sell an item on Very Jane or GroopDealz
- Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
- Write a cookbook
- Stay happily married to my husband forever
- Meet some of my favorite blog friends in person!
- Teach Zumba classes
- Take a road trip with my family (destination to be determined)
- Do a wine tasting
- Grow raspberries in my garden
- Dance in the rain
- Own a Bed and Breakfast
- Go to the Mount Dora Antique Extravaganza
- Teach craft classes
- Start a ‘Girls Night Out’ with friends
- Do ‘Who am I’ posts once a month/week on my blog
- Learn to have more patience
- Share my secret
- Have one of my crafts or parties published in a magazine
- Start a Holiday link party with other bloggers
- Cut my hair Sheryl Crow short
- Take my boys on a Disney Cruise
- Quit my day job and be my own boss
- Keep a journal
- Figure out Twitter!
- Sew a quilt
- Teach my boys about stories from the Bible
- Be a Sunday school teacher
- Design art for a publication
- Grow Poofy Cheeks – The Shop
- Get an LLC
- Learn how to use more power tools (a table saw!)
- Make furniture
- Open a storefront for handmade items
- Host a family reunion
- Make an annual tradition of doing a girls weekend with my BFF
- Come to terms with my pregnancy stretch marks
- Organize my recipes into a binder
- Fill my closet with vintage clothes
- Grow my vintage soda bottle collection
- Go to a Martha Stewart show
- Do a video tutorial
- Get Lasik
- Visit my grandma and help clean her house (she sort of has a hoarding problem)
- Read more books
- Try to be more green
- Start a compost pile
- Organize a fundraiser for someone in need
- Meet Kelle Hampton in real life
- Create a huge photo album from our family pictures
- Read Harry Potter books to my kids
- Read a parenting book
- Fall in love with my husband over and over again
- Start a weekly link party on my blog
- Reach 1,000 blog followers
- Wear more skirts
- Become an Aunt again
- Design a typeface from my own handwriting
- Tell my cousins my memories of their mom (my Aunt) who passed away from cancer
- Get annual doctor checkups and mammograms
- Go back to Key West to celebrate an anniversary
- Spend a few weeks traveling in Europe
- Make a calendar to help me remember important dates
- Live simply
- Make a skirt for myself out of Heather Bailey fabric
- Rescue more furniture from thrift stores
- Be myself everyday
- Design ink stamps
- Start traditions my children will continue with their families
- Teach my children to be accepting and love everyone. No matter their race,sex, religion, sexual preference, or differences.
- Spend a Christmas in snow
- Be an inspiration to others
- Communicate my feelings and thoughts better
- Own a cyber craft cafe – scanners, printers, mac computers, café, and endless craft supplies!
What is on your life list? Or do you have a New Years Resolution or a top 100?