What's on YOUR Bucket List?

My reach exceeds my grasp. I'd need 10 lifetimes to do and see and be everything that I want to. (And I'm not even joking or being flippant, the degrees alone would take 2 lifetimes. Much less the places to see, the people to be with, the things to do, the books to read). Whatever I make happen or fall into by sheer luck will have to suit me down to the ground!!!

((huh. I'd never actually "gotten" that phrase before. I'd always assumed 'down to the ground' meant my who self, tip to tail. Taken into the concept of bucket lists... I rather suspect it's meant literally.))

All the rest, though, doesn't really matter that much. I want to see my son grown and on his feet. Happy and knowing his own mind. More than anything else. Which probably means I'll die next tuesday at 3, knowing my own life. Mental note: Avoid walking under any hanging pianos, safes, hephalumps, etc. next tuesday at 3!

Granted, I've already died once, so I may have a bit of a fatalistic attitude. I'm on borrowed time already. So all of this is bonus.

Well it's time for me to GET. A. LIFE.

And yet here I am on Mamapedia again, sigh.

;(

Run a marathon, which I happen to be doing this Sunday! Wish me Luck!!!

carribean cruise

to Jamaica on a Bob Marley Pilgrimage

I want to go on a Bill Clinton Pilgrimage, as well. I want to se his library above all.

I want to go to Washington DC and see the seat of our Democracy, to Thomas Jeffersons Estate

I want to walk down the aisle. Texas is a common law marriage state so it wasn't necessary and we coudn't afford it. But I would like to walk down the aisle someday.

More than all those things put together, I want to see my kids weddings, graduations and children. I want to see my daughters pregnant and through childbirth. I want to meet my grandkids. If I can have those things, I would gladly skip the rest!

Go skiing
Meet my grandchildren
Ice skate on a naturally frozen lake
Join the polar bear club
Grow old with my husband
Eat spaghetti in Italy
......pastries in France
........ Samosas in India
........ Miso soup in japan
Try to surf
Jump from a plane alone
Have sex in a fog
Get back to feeling like me in my 30s
Convert someone to being a permanent vegetarian
Take a cruise
Take dancing lessons
Climb a small mountain
Ride a motorcycle
Learn a stick shift

The only things on my bucket list is:

I want to put my toes in both oceans.

I want to stand on top of a snow capped mountian.

I want to see the Grand Canyon.

That's all, good thing Im pretty simple :)

I just turned 32 and just started thinking about this list! So far I'd like to...
Visit Ireland
Visit Scotland
Visit General LaFayette's grave in France(I know, weird, but I'm a LaFayette)
See the Northern Lights
Go on a 'photography vacation'...just go around someplace and take tons of pics
Have a landscape photograph of mine published/printed

Awesome question!

Bucket list:
Done:
Go on a cruise
Celebrate our 25th Anniversary in an exotic place (Hawaii)
Go to all 50 states
Walk up the stairs in the Statue of Liberty to the crown
See the actual Constitution and Declaration of Independence
Go on a photography tour in Africa to the Masi Mara
Witness a Wildebeast Mirgation cross the river in Africa
See all my kids married
Ride a Hot Air Balloon
Ride in a Submarine
Pay off my home and all my debts
Retire

Yet to be done:
Visit all Seven Continents
Become a millionaire
Visit Greece and the historic sites I studied in school
Visit Israel and the tomb Christ spent time in.
Visit Bethlehem
See the Egypt and the piramids
Become rich enough to be able to visit homelss shelters or street shelters and give $1000 to those families whose being there was due to bad luck and not selfishness. So I could help them with a new start. (I read about a man that did this.)

Thanks for the question. Good luck to you and yours.

I would love to do more traveling too - I want to take my daughter to see more of our wonderful country, such as camping in Yellowstone, skiiing in the Rockies, a cruise to Alaska, a trip to Washington D.C. I want to be able to take more trips to Disney and invite some of our friends and family along. I would like to spend one Christmas with my husband's family that lives in New Hampshire near the mountains. I would love to see Europe, Australia, and do an African safari.

I want to help raise puppies that will grow up to be assistance dogs. I want to travel to another country and volunteer my time and skills to spay and neuter stray dogs and cats (and yes, I already do that here!).

I would also love to see my daughter grow up to be a happy successful independent young woman, with a family of her own.

Good luck, Justamom!!! :)

I really want to take a 1 or 2 week rafting trip in the Grand Canyon with my family, once the kids are older.

my bucket list is not long or complicated:
my main one which i can't even give it a number because it is my outmost priority: take care of mu daughter. see her through one more surgery and then if it doesn't work, say no more to surgeries and get her what she needs to have done.
if i see this day happen, and it is successful i will die happy. in fact, i would trade my life in a heartbeat for her.
the rest is not important, as i feel i have seen/done/experienced/gone through plenty for 3 lifetimes let alone 1, but here it is.
1. vacation in hawaii
2. take kids on a disney cruise
3. have a real honeymoon with my husband only (after kids are off to college, so in about 11 years :)
4. fix my eye
5. take my daughters for their 16th birthday to france, spend 10 days doing everything and nothing. just be fabulous selves.
6. buy an apartment in my country so that i am never a guest again when i visit.

Always wanted to got to Nigeria Falls and Mt. Rushmore!

Aside from traveling and of course seeing my children grown and happy I would like to make and leave a positive impact in my community. By that I mean I would like to help open the public's eyes to the reality of what equality truly is. I would like to spread my grandmother's ashes in her home country. I've got a few others but right now my brain is clouded with school and children.

My Bucket List....Which I DO have and DO keep up on....

Travel by car across the country. Stopping at every open field and farm structure that takes my breathe away.

Hit New York up homeless style for a week. Without my children of course and using only the resources I have at my finger tips. Urban camping as I like to call it. It is just something I have been compelled to do since starting with the Occupation.

Live in Northern California in the mountains.....We will grow our own food.....Live on hardly nothing and be happy as can be, is the plan...I can do my art and Cory can laze his days away tinkering away on some project. This is how we want to die:)

Travel to France to visit my cousin on her soil. She married a French men who was over here on a work visa. They ended up having to move back to France to help with his father's estate after he died.....they never moved back...and I only see her now when they come to visit. I miss them. she was the only cousin I was close with.

Sky dive safely.....there is a wind tunnel in one of the Cities close to me...This is the closest to jumping out of a plane I will ever be getting to....I have always wanted to not have a fear of falling to be able to feel the freedom free falling would give you...this will be the way I do it when we can afford to do so.

Climb a mountain. Even if it is something local. I still want to give it a go.

Live down near Venice Beach California for a little while. I love the culture in that area. The ''HIPPIE'' vibe. My dad lived in Hermosa Beach for many many years. My favorite thing to do was spend the summer down there with him. I will go back to that...I have many nights on the Beach to spend pounding away with the 500 man drum circle they can have form randomly...It is one of the most exotic things to stumble upon...and it will take you away from your troubles as long as they keep pounding out a beat!

Meet ALL the People who have inspired me to be the person I am today. Most are Musicians that I see as metaphoric ''angels''. their words have given me strength to move forward in life and the only way I can honestly thank them is to meet them, and thank them in person. It will happen.

These are the more ''REALISTIC'' things on my list. The ones I am setting as goals and WILL happen.

My list grows alot and changes alot. I have done so much off the list already I should have no problem keeping true to finishing it.

There are no answers as of yet..so I am excited to go see what others say:)

Completed
-have a daughter
-live in another country for over a year
-have a career
-grow in understanding of myself and to shed any part of the past which is unhealthy
-have a family and a house with a cat
-have good friends
-have a husband who loves unconditionally, and forgives me when I can't quite pull it off myself
-I finally own nice book shelves! :)

Still to do
-have my DH and I take our DD to Paris and Kyoto. And hiking in majestic mountains. Then elsewhere.
-visit Glacier Nat'l Park again
-learn to take photos with a wide angle lens and with a tripod
-watch my daughter grow up
-build something, like window boxes or a tea house--something decorative but useful
-build a spring garden in the front of the house that needs many boring structural and necessary improvements made first
-get rid of the stuff I no longer need
-learn to bake bread by kneading dough
-learn to make pasta
-have time to practice a foreign language
-learn to play piano and harp
-paint an impressionistic picture of a garden
-continue to raise the most enlightened being I can
-be able to live without having to work, but working only because I want to