Bucket List

Last year or so, there was a movie called The Bucket List, and it was about two dying men fulfilling their life long dreams before they kicked "the bucket." I watched it and cried of course, and it did hit home for me since I had lost my mom and my father was dying. He was too sick by then to start living his dreams and I was so sad for him.

Anyway, I was visiting Nikke's blog and saw her Bucket List on her sidebar. That got me thinking about it again, that I should make one. So, here are my top twenty things I want to do before I die, not in order of importance.

1. Visit where I lived in Germany
2. Take another cruise to Alaska
3. Learn Spanish fluently
4. Write a children's book
5. See the Grand Canyon
6. Walk a 1/2 marathon
7. Take a picture worth framing
8. See the Niagra Falls
9. Take an overnight train ride with my kids
10. Play in the rain with my kids
11. Go hiking in the mountains with my kids
12. Catch a big fish all by myself
13. Lose 30 lbs (so I have the energy to stuff on the list)
14. Get all the prints laying in my house framed and hung
    
15. Take pictures of myself with my kids
16. Start a garden
17. Get my children's scrapbooks finished
18. Take a trip, touring factories and cool museums designed for kids
19. Finish the renovations on my house
20. Learn to cook better than my mother-in-law
    

Wow, that was harder than I thought it was. I am glad I did it though, so I know what to start working on. I will NOT wait till my kids are grown, or my husband retired to start doing them. NO! My father kept saying he would do the traveling he wanted to do after he retired. Well, he never got to because death came before retirement. Do not wait to start really living!

Did I surprise you with any of those? Are any of them something you would like to do also? Do you have your own "Bucket List?" If so, I would love to read it, if you have shared it already.

P.S. Had to edit because I misspelled "bucket" in the post title!! I am pitiful (actually a good speller, need to edit better).