- Learn to crochet and make something besides a scarf.
- Use my sewing machine for something other than sewing on cubscout patches and hemming.
- Finish that tree skirt I’ve been working on since 2005. I kid you not, 5 years. It’s an adorable cross stitch monstrosity.
- Become a better photographer. At the very least, know what all the buttons on my fancy shmancy camera are for.
- Continue running. Even if it kills me.
- Run a 5k accomplished!
- Read all of the magazines in my very large pile of magazines.
- Read the Bible everyday, beginning to end.
- Read the complete works of Jane Austen. Pride Prejudice and Zombies does not count, no matter how amazing it was.
- Take one of those cycling Napa tours. Nothing sounds more fun than drinking and riding a bicycle.
- Get up early enough to enjoy the paper and a cup of coffee in peace and solitude. More than one day in a row.
- Host a dinner party.
- Go flying with Dave.
- Be a grown up and buy life insurance.
- Finish the front yard. or at least eradicate all of the round bushes.
- Get a stamp in my passport, even if I have to beat it out of a Canadian.
- Take the kids camping and enjoy myself, even with mosquitos and dirt.
- Take the kids on a hike and enjoy it despite all of the whining.
- Take the kids to the beach and enjoy it despite the sand. (do you see a pattern here?)
- Potty train Nathaniel. DONE
- Resist yelling at all of my five children for 24 hours, (internal yelling is okay).
- Have a consistent bedtime routine for my older kids.
- Finish reading Redwall to my boys and then move on to Tale of Desperaux. For some reason they like books about mice.
- Bring my PG&E bill under the $100 mark. This may mean roasting without air conditioning and taping all of the light switches to the off position, but it will happen.
- Make a decision and hang curtains on all of my windows.
- Bathe the dog.
- Learn how to cut the boys hair. Even if I have to enroll in barber school.
- Dig out that stained glass window kit and make something beautiful.
- Take a family portrait.
- Buy season tickets to the theater.
- Be thankful for something every single day.
31 things while I’m 31
April 24, 2010 by overactive ovaries
Overactiveovaries 
Can I come to your dinner party? 🙂
And PLEASE get video of you guys cycling in napa drinking wine… I think it would make my year!
Two things:
8) Read the Bible everyday, beginning to end.
See, this is the failing of the English language, because I’m not sure if you plan on reading the bible 24/7/365 or if you’re aiming for 66 books every day, which, to be fair, would probably take close to 24 hours.
30) Buy season tickets to the theater.
Season tickets are over rated. I’ve yet to find a company who only showed things I wanted to see. And season commitments to things that only happen once a week are solo things. You’re going to end up needing to choose Scouts or Overpriced Season tickets, 13 y/o softball or overpriced season tickets, etc. And then you’re going to get the guilt of either choosing something over a kid, or wasting money.
Better to commit to “4 great shows this year.” The cost will be about the same, and you can flex around schedules.
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What do you mean I’m supposed to bring the silly?
See we must have the same mentality Chanel because I understood what you said BUT if you do fail in one of these or would like cancel one out here is a good Idea…
Smack your brother-in-law upside the head at least once every time you get to see him 🙂
Good one huh LOL 🙂
I personally can not cross stitch so I don’t blame you for taking 5 years on the one item because WOW that is a big piece of work!
That is some AWESOME Goals for a year. And happy Early Birthday!!!
Lol at Elaina about her Brother-in-law comment!!! That’s an amazing list of stuff to do! Let me know if you manage to go 24 hours without yelling at the kids……not sure I could manage that with just the one who feels the need to do everything so slowly, especially getting ready for school!!!
Happy Birthday!
You could probably help meet #24 by buying those energy efficient curtains for #25. Bought them for my boyfriend’s bedroom, and now I can sleep till 11AM! It keeps the sun out completely, and keep the room cooler.
Best of luck with all of it! I know you can do it!
well (sorry James) but season tickets are great because they get you out of your hum drums and get to act like a grownup!
And sign your dad and I up for the napa trip ( we’ll be taking a limo though. hahahaha)
Happy Birthday baby girl!!!
Love mom and dad
OK, so here we go. I buy us some life insurance. Then I fly you to Mexico (where we get a passport stamp). That’s a long flight so you will have plenty of time to practice your photography skills. Each day in our vacation we will get up early, have coffee (or cafe as the case may be) and read the paper (or at least look at the pictures because both of us have pretty poor Spanish.) You won’t feel like yelling at the kids (because you are doing aerial whale watching in the sea of Cortez and they are not.) Finally, this trip will help you find a few hundred things to be grateful for.
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