Bucket List

I made this bucket list back in high school, before we even started dating. He always tells me now that his goal is to make all of my dreams on my list come true in our lifetime. We're getting there, slowly but surely.


1. Perform (a) song(s) in front of a large audience. Posting a video to Facebook counts.
2. Go back to Ambato, Ecuador where I was once a missionary.
3. Vacation on the Greek Island of Santorini, and stay in the windmill hotel.
4. Own a Jeep Wrangler.
5. Sell a piece of my artwork.
6. Learn how to surf, and on my own board.
7. Build a tree house for my children.
8. Own and name a star. (Yes, you can do that!)
9. Own a German Shepherd (again).
10. Go bungee jumping (over water preferably).
11. Ride a horse on the beach.
12. Run a full marathon.
13. Attend the Olympics and/or World Cup.
14. Send a message-in-a-bottle.
15. Plant a tree. A weeping willow, to be exact.
16. Learn to play the violin.
17. Learn to play the piano.
18. Dance en point once again.
19. Visit all the 50 states.
20. Play ice hockey--even if just for fun.
21. Grow my hair to my waist.
22. Go to culinary school, or at least a cooking course.
23. Graduate at least Cum Laude.
24. Have a son.
25. Live at the beach.
26. Mountain climb some peak or another. (I want to do the Koko Head hike on O'ahu for this one!)
27. Go to a Steelers game.
28. Track my ancestry as far back as I possibly can.
29. Change one of my student's life, big time.
30. Be debt free. Thank you, college loans for already putting me in the hole.
31. Get my cherry blossom tattoo on my back.
32. Have an alumni brick at Longwood.
33. Marry the most amazing guy in the world, and only have to do it ONCE.
34. Sleep on the beach.
35. Flip a house.
36. Take my children to Disney World.
37. Have my own library (an entire wall in my house) that is full from top to bottom.
38. Publish something: a book, a poem, an essay...something.
39. Coach a high school girls soccer team.
40. Read the entire Bible like a book, not in random chunks throughout the years.
41. Ice skate on a real frozen lake.
42. Be an EMT.
43. Deliver a baby.
44. Decorate my lifetime house with all of the features and decor that I want.
45. Grow sunflowers.
46. Go one week without computer and cell phone.
47. Spend a whole day barefoot.
48. Be a Teacher of the Year.
49. Get another degree.
50. DIE OLD & HAPPY. (Someone else will have to cross that one off for me).