My bucket list in progress...

My Bucket List: 

Go back to Italy to visit my dear friends.

Make homemade pasta!

Go whale watching in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Run a marathon...or maybe a half marathon...or even a mile.

Visit Ireland with my husband.

Make homemade bread.

Be able to to sight read piano music.

Write a novel...or five.

 Make my stomach look like it did before I had kids.  (That would mean I have to stop eating those chocolate-covered toffee bars that are addictive...and I'm not totally sure how I feel about that).

Make a strawberry-rhubarb pie from scratch.

Take swing dancing lessons.

Knit something really cute (after I find some hypoallergenic yard--ugh...).

Take karate with my kids?? (I still haven't decided on that one).

See the Holy Land.

Buy a metal chicken...because it's funny. 

There are some things I've already done that have made my bucket a little fuller:

Sleep on a sandy beach next to the ocean.

 Laugh until I cry.

Sneak in to a fancy hotel in the middle of the night and go swimming.

Visit Italy and speak semi-fluent Italian (that's all gone now--it's been 15 years).

Observe monks praying in a pagoda.

Visit a third-world country.

Take the train to Chicago.

Get a college degree.

Live in one place for more than three years.

Get married to a wonderful man and have four amazing kids.

 And then there are some things that just can't be checked off a list:

 Love with complete vulnerability. 

Be a faithful friend and companion.

Make my kids feel loved every day.

Make my husband feel valued and treasured every day.

 Allow God to use even a flawed person like me.



I know there is a lot more, so I'll add to the list as I think of things.  What about you?  What's at the top of your bucket list?  What are the things up to now you are most happy you have experienced?  Oooohhhh, this is fun.  I can't wait to hear your answers!