Also called a Bucket List, but I prefer Life List. Less morbid. And I don’t think my life is incomplete if I don’t do all these things… I’m already exorbitantly blessed beyond belief.

I’ll check things off as I accomplish them. Written in random order.

  1. Get a book published ✔️
  2. Get another book published ✔️
  3. Write a young adult fiction novel
  4. Meet J.K. Rowling
  5. Set foot on all 7 continents
  6. Set foot on all 196(ish) countries
  7. Live in a different country for awhile ✔️
  8. Get married ✔️
  9. Have children ✔️
  10. Live near the mountains ✔️
  11. Live near the beach
  12. Take a cooking class ✔️
  13. Visit Paris ✔️
  14. Spend at least a month in Paris
  15. Learn French
  16. Live in France
  17. Visit Hawaii ✔️
  18. Visit Tuscany ✔️
  19. Visit the British Isles ✔️
  20. Visit New Zealand ✔️
  21. Visit Australia ✔️
  22. Visit Iceland
  23. Visit Alaska
  24. Build a house from scratch
  25. See the Great Wall of China ✔️
  26. See the Pyramids
  27. Become a good gardener ✔️
  28. Visit Thailand ✔️
  29. Get a tattoo ✔️
  30. See a play on Broadway ✔️
  31. Spend at least a month in New York City
  32. Attend a film festival
  33. Learn how to sail
  34. Sail around the world with Kyle
  35. Backpack through Europe with Kyle
  36. Take each of my kids on a one-on-one trip
  37. See each of my children grow up confident in who God made them to be
  38. Visit Ireland ✔️
  39. Spend at least a month in Ireland
  40. Take a cross-country family road trip and visit all 50 U.S. states
  41. Go to Yellowstone ✔️
  42. See Mt. Everest (notice I said see, not climb)
  43. Spend time on a Greek island ✔️
  44. Save up enough for a quality retirement
  45. Teach my kids financial responsibility
  46. Take each of my kids to visit their Compassion sponsored child – almost!
  47. Go SCUBA diving ✔️
  48. See the Great Barrier Reef ✔️
  49. Eat the most delicious piece of chocolate in the world ✔️
  50. Drink the most delicious wine in the world ✔️
  51. Spend at least a month in London — almost!
  52. Become a good photographer
  53. Take a photo every day for a year
  54. Swim with dolphins
  55. Ride in a hot-air balloon
  56. See the Northern lights
  57. Go on a big vacation with my entire extended family
  58. Be part of a Flash Mob ✔️
  59. Go on a really long bike ride
  60. Become a runner
  61. Fly on a Concorde jet
  62. Attend a TED Conference
  63. Learn how to knit
  64. Run a guest house
  65. Go on an African safari ✔️
  66. Significantly help a charity I’m passionate about
  67. Have a wraparound porch
  68. Be a grandparent that my grandkids want to be around
  69. Get 8 hours of sleep every night for one month.
  70. Stand on Red Square ✔️
  71. Visit Israel ✔️
  72. Open a Swiss bank account (just to say I have a Swiss bank account)
  73. Whisk Kyle away on a completely surprising trip ✔️
  74. Visit The Eagle and The Child ✔️
  75. See Loy Krathong, the sky lantern festival in Thailand ✔️
  76. Learn how to make good tortillas
  77. See Andrew Bird in concert ✔️
  78. Learn how to whistle
  79. See Arcade Fire in concert
  80. See U2 in concert ✔️
  81. See U2 in concert… again
  82. Have a big anniversary party with Kyle
  83. Teach all my kids to read ✔️
  84. Remodel a house – in progress!
  85. Take the kids to the spot on the dirt road in Kosovo where Kyle and I met ✔️
  86. Become debt-free ✔️
  87. Leave a $100 tip for a waitress ✔️
  88. Go ice skating in Rockefeller Center at Christmastime
  89. Ski the Alps
  90. Drive on the Autobahn
  91. Go to Smithsonians ✔️
  92. Visit Colonial Williamsburg ✔️
  93. Swim in the Mediterranean ✔️