This is my entry in the Just Ask Bucket List Getaway Giveaway. Just Ask offers a breast and ovarian cancer screening and is encouraging people to share 15 things that I want to enjoy in my lifetime as a reminder to be aware of my health. Want to enter? Head over to TodaysMama.com to get the details.
So I came across the above referenced contest, and of course thought "I want to win!" but immediately following that thought was, "What IS on my 'bucket list'?". I had to think about it, really think about it, narrowing it down to just 15 things has become the problem. There's just so much world out there, so many experiences, so many things to see, taste, hear, embrace, feel...where and how does one really focus on just 15? Well, I've tried and here is what I've decided matters the absolute most to me if I really have to choose-
1. Go to Egypt- I've wanted to do this since I was a child, Egyptian history fascinates me, and I have a deep longing to stand among that history and breathe it in, feel it's presence in a way that books will never be able to fully convey.
2. Do one truly wonderful selfless thing for someone who really needs it, doesn't expect it and honestly deserves it. Anonymously.
3. Get all the kids through college, without student loans.
4. Run a marathon, nothing life altering, I don't want to expire doing it, I just want to feel like an athlete again for a short bit.
5. Travel with my kids places, show them beauty, nature, the amazing world we have all around us. I've never really been anywhere myself, sharing the experience with them would make it all the better and enriching.
6. Lay on a beach in Bora Bora after a day of snorkeling with an amazing book and a perfect margarita and my husband by my side.
7. Skydive.
8. Swim with sharks. *neither of the last two do I wish to share with the kids, my fear for them would suck the fun right out of it for me, lol.
9.Perform as a stand up comic, just once- it'd be nice if people laughed....at least a little.
10. Take dance classes with my husband, something passionate and fun. He'd never do it, but hey, this isn't HIS bucket list now is it??
11. Retire on a boat with my husband and sail, fish, read and just be us- catching a marlin would be cherry on the cake of this dream, ESPECIALLY if *gasp* I caught one FIRST! I'd talk about it every day, lol.
12. Master Sewing.
13. Drive a racecar....really, really fast.
14. Hold my grandchildren.....maybe even great grandchildren.*though admittedly skydiving, swimming with sharks and driving race cars does not bode well for this one:)
15. Remember how blessed I am, each and every day, even the bad ones.
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