Life List Update

  #97 - Document the first year of Mia's life with weekly photos - Week 14
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oh-so-cute hat is a gift from Auntie Boho

Almost exactly one year ago I posted my bucket list. Shortly afterward I discovered I was pregnant and this list had pretty much been abandoned as hormones and nausea and planning took over. My list has always remained in the back of my mind and I knew I would revisit it when the time was right. I knew for me the time wouldn't come until the fog that overtakes you in those early months of parenting a fresh baby had begun to clear.

That time has now arrived.

Looking back on my newly named Life List it occurred to me that many of the items weren't ringing true to where I currently am heart-wise and was causing much resistance on my part. So, as we all have the power to do, I changed it.

This revised list only has 99 actions but our lists and our lives are ever-evolving and here is where mine is now. There may or may not be one more item to add, only time will tell and there are no rules. I can't wait to get started... again.

* If you wish to create your own life list, and I truly hope you do, Karen over at Chookooloonks has some incredibly helpful tips to get you started here

 

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1.      Learn how to hula hoop
2.      Grow a vegetable and herb garden
3.      Watch It's a Wonderful Life
4.      Leave 100 love notes for strangers to discover in unexpected spaces
5.      Create a beautiful living space for myself and my husband and children
6.      Remodel a kitchen
7.      Have my artwork featured in a gallery show
8.      Have an article that I have written published in a magazine
9.      Write a book
10.    Publish a book
11.    Decorate an ancient tree with lanterns and fairy lights
12.    Become conversational in French
13.    Live in France for one year with my family
14.    Take a cooking class in Italy
15.    Snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef
16.    Jump seven waves in Brazil to celebrate the coming of a new year
17.    Create art using mementos
18.    Take a ride in a helicopter
19.    Meditate at least once without my thoughts dancing everywhere
20.    Zipline somewhere exotic
21.    Take a trapeze class
22.    Take a belly dancing class
23.    Help save the honeybees
24.    Visit Thailand, Vietnam and India and the Isle of Eigg
25.    Make my own almond milk
26.    Live in a home with an ocean view
27.    Purchase a cabin in the woods
28.    Build a life somewhere other than Los Angeles (see #26 + 27)
29.    Teach a class
30.    Write a handwritten letter to my closest friends and family members
31.    Book a family photo session with an amazing photographer
32.    Adopt an elephant
33.    Rescue a dog
34.    Publish a cookbook
35.    Ride a train across Canada
36.    Jump in the ocean... naked
37.    Fly in a hot air balloon
38.    Take Isabella and Mia to Hawaii
39.    Leave a hundred dollar tip on a twenty dollar tab
40.    Discover 1000 new songs
41.    Have a claw foot tub in my bathroom
42.    See my name on a film screen in the credits (my former life)
43.    Learn to play a song on the piano that isn't chopsticks
44.    Swim with dolphins
45.    Eat at the French Laundry
46.   Apologize to Kevin Spacey for interrupting hise breakfast that one time because I was having a moron moment
47.    Write a treatment for a screenplay
48.    Write a children's story for my daughters
49.    Visit the Louvre
50.    Attend a taping of Saturday Night Live
51.    Go for a walk with Elizabeth Gilbert
52.    Host a dinner party on the beach
53.    Learn to say I LOVE YOU in 25 languages
54.    Experience Oktoberfest in Germany
55.    Taste the pizza in Chicago
56.    Visit Anne Frank's home
57.    Overcome my fear of ferris wheels
58.    Make a hardbound coffee table book from our wedding photos
59.    Learn to juggle
60.    Get one more tattoo
61.    Take Isabella and Mia kite flying
62.    Learn how to play Texas Hold Em
63.    Learn to dance the Argentine tango
64.    Have the bump removed from the side of my nose
65.    Help someone achieve their dream
66.    Audition for a role in a local theatre production
67.    Spend the night in a castle
68.    Makeover my website
69.    Write yearly letters to Isabella and Mia to be gifted to each of them on the day they decide to move out of our home (this one already makes me teary just thinking about it)
70.    Pet a koala bear
71.    Watch turtles hatch their eggs and then run to the ocean
72.    Live in a house with a large farm sink
73.    Have a home library with a ladder and a big, comfy old chair
74.    See a play on Broadway 
75.    Attend one of the TED talks
76.    Shop at a flea market in Paris
77.    Sit in on a drum circle
78.    Help someone financially start their own business  (thank you, Kiva)
79.    Incorporate my business
80.    Attend an artist retreat (Squam Art Workshops - September 2009)
81.    Attend a writer's convention
82.    Complete all twelve steps of The Artist's Way
83.    Master the perfect martini
84.    Speak semi-fluent Spanish
85.    Sing "Blackbird" while playing guitar
86.    Read 100 influential books in a five-year time span
87.    Have my signature gift for newlyweds be photos I have captured of their special day
88.    Document Isabella and Mia's childhood through candid photos and turn it into a book for them
89.   Write a gushy mushy love letter to my husband each year on our anniversary
90.    Be a part of a community art project
91.    Completely remove white sugar from my diet
92.    Spend one month on a houseboat
93.    Learn to sew
94.    Take a photoshop class, one that focuses solely on photo processing
95.    Make a piece of pottery with my own hands
96.    Create my own signature scent
97.    Document the first year of Mia's life with weekly photos
98.    Find 50 delicious ways to prepare kale
99.    Photograph 1000 places, people and things as seen through the Hipstamatic

Comments

[Nancy]

Hmm, a few of these are also on my list. ;) Take it one day at a time, you'll get there.

Your little Mia is the cutest!

[stacy]

Nancy, send me a link to your list, I would love to see it! Have fun with your's as well! xoxo

[kathygrace]

so inspiring! reading your list makes me so giddy to start my own.

[Melissa]

Ok...I'm going to make a list now too! xo

[Sara]

I love your list! Now I have to do my own. It may take a little while though. Thanks for the inspiration!

[Alex]

oh you make me want to make a list too!!
i love everything you put down.
here are the things i have done and so recommend and support you doing: 1-8-12 (although marginal)16-22-24-29-30-36-42 (former life indeed!)-52-55-58(still working on it)-67-68-70 (they are NOT cuddly tho!)-71 (in the north of Brazil- save it for that trip!)-74-76-77-80-81-84 (i can get around)-94-98

And the rest of your list, I could pretty much add 95% to my own. Kindred hearts indeed!

xoxxx

[Polly]

I love your list,6 months ago I made a 29 Things to do before I'm 30 list, and just today I was reading an article about bucket lists, then I saw a link to yours! May have to go make one

xox

[latisha]

i love that you posted this. i have been working on mine for about 2 weeks. for the first time ever in my life. ive only got to 77 and was feeling bad about it. but hm, maybe ill just stop for now. and p.s.number 11 is my favorite.