Out of the 5 prompts listed for the Writer's Workshop, I'm think I'll go with the listing 100 things I want to do before I turn 100. Otherwise known as a Bucket List...I probably won't get to 100, but we'll see!
- Learn to ballroom dance
- Go to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina
- Take my children to Disney
- Visit an Amish community
- Visit Maine or Rhode Island to see the lighthouses
- Eat lobster on the beach one one of the above locations
- Take a trip to Spain
- Read all the books in my library
- Instill my love of reading in my children
- Take piano lessons, again
- Run a 5k without stopping, then
- Run a 10k without stopping, and then
- Run a half marathon (no desire for the full)
- Open a used bookstore/succulent nursery
- Run all the above races with my oldest daughter
- Write a book
- Dance in the rain with my husband
- Take off on a Girls Only adventure with my mother
- Another Girls Only adventure with my best friend
- Yet another Girls Only with my girls...not in our house!
- Climb a mountain
- Master Zumba and become an instructor
- Teach piano lessons to children
- Volunteer at a crisis center for young girls
- Volunteer at a women's shelter
- Visit Graceland
- Watch my daughter's marry the man of their dreams
- Visit Holland and get my picture in a field of tulips
- Loose 15 lbs and keep it off
- Watch my daughter's grow in their love of their Heavenly Father
- Read my Bible through from cover to cover
- Live closer to my parents
- Gain control of my temper
- Take a summer off to spend with my girls
- Teach my girls to drive like their mother
- Help my mother make a blog
- Take photography lessons
- Get as close to mastering the Fruits of the Spirit as I possibly can
- Learn to belly dance
- Make a scrapbook for each of my girls
- Get season tickets to the Majestic Theatre
- Become season ticket holders for the San Antonio Spurs...for all 4 of us
- Pay off all debt including the house
- Be the best friend I can be to my current friends and ones I've yet to meet
- Own a Westie
- Stomp grapes
- Learn to sew
- Redo my bathroom and put in a whirly tub
- Have a miniature, pot-bellied pig to call my own
- Attend a Broadway production of The King and I, Fiddler on the Roof and a number of other musicals
- Get a reduction...I'll leave it at that
- Put together a cookbook of my girl's favorite recipes to give them when grow up and leave me
- Visit Hershey, Penn.
- Learn to rollerblade
- Take tennis lessons and play with my youngest
- Go skydiving with my husband
- Learn how to grill more than hotdogs without burning i
If you'd like to try, head over to Mama Kats and join in the fun!
Have a great night!
Mandy
Mandy, this is fantastic! I'm new to this Writer's Workshop and tried the Bucket List. I did not make it as far as you. I scratched the list and moved on to try a different prompt.
ReplyDeleteJo Anne,
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I'm not the only one! Only, I'm such a nut that I came back to add to it! This is my first time here, so hoping that next week isn't as daunting!
Thanks for stopping by!
#14 sounds great!!! LOL!!!
ReplyDeleteI always wanted to have a library for teens...a really groovy place with a juice bar and cool music. I wanted to have myself and a social worker who could be available to talk if they wanted to talk about anything on their minds. I still think that would be a wonderful hang-out for teens!!!
I like that you have "Visit Graceland" on here. That is something fun I would like to explore one day too!
ReplyDeleteI like the Amish community wish, but ....er, what's a succulent nursery? Good that you didn't feel the need to reach 100 on your bucket list. I like people who do things their own way. I did the workshop too but on a different prompt.
ReplyDeletegaelikaa xxx
Gaelikaa,
ReplyDeleteA succulent nursery is just a garden center/nursery for just succulent plants. They're like cactus, only without the spines. I love them!
stopping over from Mama Kats...what a fun bucket list! I visited an Amish community a few years ago and loved it...bought some really cool rugs and learned a lot about their lifestyle.
ReplyDeleteWow great bucket list! I have completed a few on your list, going to Spain, taken my kids to Disneyland, danced in the rain with my hubby (so cool), learned to sew in high school, roller blade (badly roadrashed) ha!,
ReplyDeleteand last but not least I can BBQ anything (some burnt, some not) depends on my attention span at the time.
By the way (this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't think I sound snobberly, and you may already know this) but all cactus are succulents but not all succulents are cactus. The way to tell the difference between the spiny cacti and other types of prickly succulents is that cacti have areoles, or spine cushions. The spines of a cactus will grow only out of these spine cushions. It looks like a patch of cotton from which spines, flowers, and roots grow. While some succulents may have spines, they will not have areoles.
And now class that is our lesson for today! Hee hee!
Candy,
ReplyDeleteSnobberly...no way! You should hear me when my friend calls a Calibrochoa a mini-Petunia! That's neat to know, because I just thought it was the pricklies that separated them! Thanks for the lesson! :)
Stopped by from Mama Kat's. I love #17! And 27 is so true for me too...I hope I can see my daughter get married to the man of her dreams one day.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
Great list!
ReplyDelete#1 would have been on mine, had I been able to finish it, before the ER and all the following shenanigans,