Mighty Life List

It’s in no particular order and subject to additions:

1. Sit for an oil painting

2. Buy a telescope

3. Build a snow fort

4. Visit a state fair as a family

5. Go parasailing

6. Own a big girl camera

7. Have a secret garden

8. Go horseback riding

9. Zip line through a canopy

10. Dine in a five-star restaurant

11. Do a cartwheel

12. Tour a winery

13. Buy fun rain boots

14. Start an annual event with friends

15. Have another child

16. Fold 1,000 paper cranes

17. Be able to recognize 25 constellations

18. Give only handmade gifts for a year

19. Travel to another country

20. Learn to ballroom dance

21. Find my own red dress

22. Travel on a train with my family

23. Have window boxes filled with flowers

24. Decorate my home with lanterns

25. Protest for a cause I believe in

26. Own exceptional luggage

27. Visit these Smithsonian museums: the National Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of Natural History, and the Smithsonian National Zoological Park

28. Have a day at the spa

29. Reorganize my linen closet into a Pinterest dream

30. Cook on an open hearth

31. Attend a dinner theater

32. Reach my goal weight

33. Grow my hair ridiculously long

34. Cut my hair ridiculously short

35. Throw a surprise party

36. Identify every state and it’s capital on the map of the United States

37. Wear perfume regularly again

38. Be conversational in three languages: 1. English 2. Spanish 3. French

39. Attend a taping of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

40. Get a tattoo

41. Have a family portrait taken

42. Visit Egypt

43. See the free Shakespeare in the Park in New York’s Central Park

44. Throw a party with a pianist playing requests

45. Install a video projector and screen for movie nights in our home

46. Dye Easter eggs

47. Fly in a small plane

48. Hire a personal shopper

49. Take a photography class

50. Have an artist caricature each member of my family in a group portrait

51. Find the best products for my hair

52. Take piano lessons again

53. Experience zero gravity

54. Attend a taping of The Daily Show

55. Plant/create a terrarium

56. Create a ball pit indoors

57. Learn to use chopsticks

58. Have a professional makeup lesson

59. Make mud pies with my child

60. Spend a weekend watching foreign films

61. Visit England

62. Buy a home

63. Witness the launch of a spacecraft

64. Go dogsledding

65. Visit the White House

66. Throw a haunted house party

67. Play in the ocean until I am completely exhausted

68. Attend a TED event

69. Buy a grand piano

70. Learn CPR

71. Weave a flower necklace

72. Build a secret room in my home

73. See if CrossFit is for me

74. Take part in a flashmob

75. Buy a bicycle and ride again

76. Build a snowman

77. See the Grand Canyon

78. Purchase a piece of original art

79. See a musical on Broadway

80. Ride in a hot air balloon

81. Swim with dolphins

82. Have a library in my home

83. Own a dog

84. Take a personal defense class

85. Make a blueberry pie from blueberries I picked

86. Be in/start a book club

87. Learn to make chocolate mousse

88. Stay at Biltmore with my husband

89. Attend a massage workshop

90. Own the best claw foot tub

91. Host a croquet party

92. Make my own comic book flats

93. Buy a liquor cabinet and learn to mix drinks

94. See a ballet

95. Drink a bottle of wine that is older than me

96. Have a colorfully painted set of stairs

97. Take my family to Disneyworld

98. Attend Comic Con

99. Host a fabulous Halloween party

100. Of my Granny’s recipes, learn to cook my favorites