My cousin, Green3, is hosting a carnival today. She’s asking you to dig deep and list forty things you’d like to accomplish before you turn 40. Even if you’re over 40 you can still play. You can change the number to 50 or 60 or whatever. I’m going with 40 because it’s fewer things to come up with!
- Visit Italy
- Take one vacation every year with just me and Husband
- Cook and eat healthier
- Teach courses on blogging/web design/making video games at a community college or community education center
- Implement a family reading time
- Start having a read-aloud chapter book before bed. We read Despereaux this way and it was great.
- Teach both kids to sew
- Learn to crochet
- Speak at a BlogHer conference
- Read at least one book per month
- See my nephews more than once every two years
- Make it to Iowa to see family at least once a year, preferably twice a year
- Work out at least three times a week to become healthier and set a good example for the kids and encourage them to exercise too
- Take a family vacation to DC
- Organize a craft room somewhere in my house that has natural light
- Start playing tennis
- Be more available to my children. Fewer Not right nows and Maybe laters.
- Take a cooking class
- Learn to knit a sweater
- Learn to knit socks and mittens
Holy canoli, it’s hard to think of 40 things I can accomplish in a mere three and a half years.
You may be wondering why I’m not listing things like pay off the car, pay off mortage, etc. The truth of the matter is that we already do those things so it’s not really a goal for us–it’s a given. We could pay the mortgage on our house now if we chose, but it’s not bad debt to have and the money we would spend to pay it off is making us money in other places.
Do you have a list? Head over to Green3′s place and join the carnival!
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Funny! I’ve been working on one of these posts, but I can’t get past #5. LOL.
As I’ve only got a little over three months left before I complete my 40th trip around the sun, my list will have to include things like: see what the top of my desk looks like, take a nap, pull weeds.
I think I can do it…
I need to sign up for #4! It’s on my 40 before 40!
Mine is up at AF Wife::
http://www.beinganairforcewife.com/
So glad to see you around Cre8Buzz! It’s so addictive though!
Aack! Time is running out! Must purchase learn-Spanish CD! Must practice guitar! Must finish novel and find some sucker to publish it! Oh, forget it . . . must reach for bag of Pringles and chill out.