Wait for it

I'd like to learn french, someday I would like to attempt to climb the highest summits on each continent, I have a desire to learn to sail, karate, and how to make sushi.  I am determined to bike across the U.S. with Amy at some point in our lives.  Hopefully I'll have a chance to hike the Appalachian trail.  I've made lists and lists of things I want to do in life.  I know I have ones from when I was younger and I actually found one of them.  It's from August of 1998.

1. Visit Europe - Italy, etc.  

2. Get a passport 

3.  Get married

4.  Be rich

5.  Find a deserted beach put up a hammock and fall asleep watching the waves

6.  Be a mom - maybe

7.  Go to college

8.  Go to a concert

9.  Have a gorgeous wedding

10. Visit every Hawaiian island

11. Join a church and go every sunday for at least a year

12.  Read the entire Bible and understand it.

13.  Learn how to surf

14.  Find at least one sport I like and stick to it.

15.  Fall in love and have the guy love me back.

16.  Kiss someone who's name I don't know

17.  Give a guy a chance even if their not gorgeous

18.  Go skinny dipping in the ocean

19.  Live in New York

20.  Visit Maine

21.  Be a bridesmaid

22. Be a Grandma

23.  Be proposed to at the beach

24.  Be cremated

25.  Publish something of mine

26.  See the top of mount everest

27.  learn to love hiking in the mountains as much as my mom does

28. water ski

29. ski or snowboard

30.  drive a boat

31.  drive a white convertible eclipse

So weird that at 14 I created a list like that.  Even weirder the things that have changed since then and the things that are still the same.  Crazy the things that I've done from that list and so much beyond what was there.  

I think it's so interesting how we change and grow as humans.  How we are capable of truly believing and desiring things and then also able to unlearn that desire based on other experiences.  Interesting that I had a maybe next to be a mom even then.  

So...I'm thankful I'm the type of person that takes time to write things like this down.  Thankful for Alison my other sister.  Thankful for opportunity and growth.  And thankful for him.