Life List
Take an unconventional family portraitMISSION ACCOMPLISHED!- Pimp my closet
- Learn to make his grandma’s black beans & chile mole
- Learn to make my grandma’s fudge sauce & carrots and wine sauce
- Visit the aquarium with Isobel MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
- Sell my thrifted finds on Etsy MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
- Create a Family of Isobel book
- Create a Book of Seasons
Decorate Isobel’s big girl bedroomMISSION ACCOMPLISHED!- Own a wardrobe I am proud of
- Visit a local you-pick farm
- Participate in Family Kite Day in the mountains
- Host a food swap
- Bike the Virginia Corridor Trail with family
Visit Jose and Lupe in San JoseMISSION ACCOMPLISHED!- Xerescape my front yard
- Visit the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve
- Get business cards
- Get my business license
- Swim in a turquoise sea
- Participate in a drum circle
- Tour a Europen castle
- Teach Isobel to cook
- Turn a wall into a photo gallery
- Visit all the state parks & reserves in my area
- Learn to edit video
Back up all the information and files on my computerCreate a thrifted dress-up chestMISSION ACCOMPLISHED!- Speak basic Spanish
Take Isobel to the library for story timeMISSION ACCOMPLISHED!- Host regular family dinners with extended family
- Walk the English moors
- Research our family tree
Master a working menu for a yearMISSION ACCOMPLISHED!- Have a family snow day with sledding
- Visit the UC Davis arboretum
Visit Modesto’s lotus gardens(they closed! so sad!)- Have a campfire at the beach
- Plan a getaway to the cabin with my friends
Pick out and carve Isobel’s first pumpkinMISSION ACCOMPLISHED!- Try on wedding dresses since I missed my opportunity
- Grow my own mushrooms
- Help a needy family have a bountiful holiday
- Cook a meal for a homeless shelter
- Bathe in a hot spring
- See the Northern Lights
Stargaze in the desertMISSION ACCOMPLISHED!Take a whale-watching tourMISSION ACCOMPLISHED!- Taste ice wine
- Tasting party for fancy cheese
- Go camping
- Try Geocacheing
- Learn to work my GD sewing machine
Redesign my website; host & maintain itMISSION ACCOMPLISHED!- Have an English-style tea
- Walk on the Golden Gate Bridge
- Take Isobel to our local water park MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
- Knit a fancy scarf
- Make homemade bagels
- Fly First Class
- Take family photos at the beach
- Grow vegetables in the backyard
- Create a coloring book for Isobel with my friends
- Sing a karaoke duet of the accursed song, Time Of My Life, with Stefanie
- Craft family Christmas stockings
- Learn to bake truly excellent bread
- Turn my backyard into an oasis
- Have another child
Visit my friends Dave & Stef in RenoMISSION ACCOMPLISHED!- Perfect my punch
- Prepare for the apocalypse
- Eat at a Michelin-starred restaurant
- Take a trip to NYC
- Record my Grandma’s life story
- Record Anthony’s Grandma’s life story
- Create a car emergency kit
- Explore the ruins in Guatemala
- Cook a campfire meal
- Become proficient at building a fire
- Learn basic and advanced embroidery techniques
- Crochet an amigurumi animal
- Plant a dwarf orchard in the backyard
- Learn to make preserves
- Sow a garden of poppies
- Get a meaningful tattoo
- Make homemade ice cream
- Set up a compost bin and a rain barrel in our yard
- Visit the SF MOMA
- Hike Vernal Falls in the Spring with family
- Take Isobel to the beach
- Visit a Japanese temple
- Meet as many of myonline friends in real life as possible
- Start a movement for backyard herb gardens
- Learn to make a delicious cocktail
- Stay in a woodland cabin
- Explore the Badlands
- Visit a Viking museum in Sweden
- Visit a natural history museum
Purchase my favorite childhood booksMISSION ACCOMPLISHED!Meet our financial goal so I can be a SAHM— MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!- Visit the Rosicrucian Museum
- Photograph my favorite local sites
Take a Mommy and Me swimming classMISSION ACCOMPLISHED!- Spend a summer devoted to day trips
- Throw my parents an anniversary party
- Renew our wedding vows
- Witness a huge lightning and thunder storm
- Host a dance party for Isobel
- Watch a caterpillar turn into a butterfly
Stock my garden with a village of gnomes– MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!- Grow a fabulous herb garden on my patio
Meet Anthony Bourdain– MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!High-Five DJ Lance RockMISSION ACCOMPLISHED, SORT OF!- Visit San Juan Bautista Yard Sale Festival
- Fondue party!
- See Rifftrax live
- Contribute financially to our family
- Help Anthony get his game published
- Carve our initials into a tree
- Display my photography in a gallery show
- Visit a giant planetarium
- Look through Lick Observatory’s telescope
Awesome list! I’ve accomplished some of the things you have listed, and we have some things in common that we would like to do
Alicia has commented exactly what I was going to say! I recently struck off the item about eating a good dinner prepared by a Michelin star chef, when I was in Germany last week
Good luck with crossing all your items off the list!
Thanks! My list is very much a work in progress. For example, I need to cross off a few things, delete a few things, and add a few things. I’d love to see yours!
Your list is great! I’m hoping to plant some dwarf fruit trees next year.
I’m thinking of planting mine in pots in case we ever move.
This is a great list! I only have 42 in my list right now, I’m sure once I have kids, I will get to 100 easily
I have never heard of dwarf fruit trees but this intrigues me greatly!
When I first started making my list I got to about 60 (and that was with stealing liberally from other people’s lists) before I got stuck. It’s taken over a year and many rewrites for me to really figure out what I want.
You forgot to add:
Go to New Zealand and organize all Marie’s shit.
But since I’ve now noticed that you have “Vacation in NZ”, I’ll just get you when you land. What time’s your flight?
You’d better BELIEVE I will look you up when we make the trip.
I hear you have a closet that needs my attention…
YOU ARE A GNOME ENTHUSIAST TOO?! I’m going to sound like a creeper, but whatever, I think we’re kindred spirits on this one. My dishes are this French gnome set. And my gnome collection itself is multiplying…I’m glad people know that about me! Makes gifting a lot easier on them for Secret Santa and the like.
http://www.poshchicago.com/product.asp?lt=d&deptid=3071&pfid=PSH00810
HELLS YES.
::gnome high-five::
I love your life list. I just came across a life list I made two years ago and it seems so outdated already. The faster time moves, the more I add to the list. Thanks for your post!
I’m so glad you like it. I’ve already updated mine several times. Certain things totally lost their appeal while I found other things to add. It’s an ongoing process, isn’t it?
I’ve been wanting to make a life list for so long. I really need to sit down and do it. I WILL do it… Item #1. Make life list.
#2. …
#3. ….
#4. FINISH life list.
Life lists are fun to make. You should go for it.
That’s the link with to do lists. Eventually they get all meta and include items like, “Make To do list.”
Fun list lady! I am in your BYW class and I had to come over and check your site out because I loveed your ideas so much!
Can’t wait to look around more and see everything here…
p.s. what is glamping?
Hi Courtney! Nice to see you here!
Think “glamorous camping.” Living it up in nature luxuriously.
this is inspiring me to make my own list, so i thank you for that.
also: #135 is pretty amazing and highly recommended. monarch butterfly.
Yes, do it! Then share it! I love reading people’s life lists.
Been thinking about my bucket list recently. Newest addition: drive a really fast car on the audubon- really fast! LOL!!!
It appears that 37. Create a thrifted dress-up chest and 122. Create an awesome second-hand dress-up chest are very similar, AND therefore you have accomplished both?! Way to go!
So nice I listed it twice! P.S. I am old and have memory problems. What was I saying?
“Vacation in New Zealand”? You should, I do this all the time and it’s amazing.