(Photos from our trip to England, May 2017)
Ever since Lane gave me a back-to-school blessing after giving the children theirs, I’ve been searching to know what the one new thing is I should learn this year and become expert in.
Revisiting the bucket list
I’ve been pondering a lot of possibilities. Lane suggested I go over my bucket list (the one I wrote when I was 16, I think, and that he framed for me years ago).
Raising a pig?
I noticed on that list that there are a few things I really am no longer set on accomplishing in this lifetime: being valedictorian, doing a back walkover, doing the splits, parasailing, or raising a pig! LOL
In this post, I’m going to list the things I haven’t done yet and those I have either worked on or completed. (I’m not worried about accomplishing all of the things on my bucket list, since I do have eternity, after all, to learn everything!)
✅ = Completed (at least sufficiently for my desires)
🤪 = I can wait until eternity to learn this one
- Be a valedictorian 🤪
- Study in France or Switzerland
- Learn how to needlepoint ✅
- Learn how to tap dance
- Learn how to decorate cakes ✅
- Sew a prom dress [formal] ✅
- Learn how to speak French fluently ≈ ✅
- Learn a sport (tennis, gymnastics) ✅
- Read all of Book of Mormon, Bible OT/NT, Pearl of Great Price, Doctrine and Covenants ✅
- Get on pointe 🤪
- Read all of booklist books
- Finish all 10 Suzuki Violin books 🤪 [I finished 6 of them and learned songs from books 7, 8 and 10]
- Learn to make gourmet foods ✅
- Go on a mission ✅
- Marry in the temple ✅
- Learn German
- Learn Spanish
- Go to China
- Learn to fly
- Learn to sing properly ≈ ✅
- Learn to play piano ≈ ✅
- Learn sign language
- Learn to do a back walkover 🤪
- Do the splits 🤪
- Do geneology (complete four generations)
- Write a book ✅
- Climb a volcano
- Have 7 or 8 children or more ✅
- Be an excellent seamstress ≈ ✅
- Run a marathon
- Learn about child psychology
- Learn to arrange flowers ✅
- Own a boutique
- Go to Japan
- Design a dress ✅
- Have a shop called “Elizabeth M’s” (or have a shop)
- Stay in shape ≈ ✅
- Write a song ✅
- Learn to grow flowers [plant and care for] ✅
- Be a study abroad student
- Write a children’s book and do the illustrations, too
- Take art classes
- Make a quilt ✅
- Learn to grow many foods ≈ ✅
- Learn to cook well ≈ ✅
- Go to Egypt
- Go to Israel
- Study at Stanford and BYU (←✅)
- Learn to ski well and safely (black diamonds)
- Visit Tutankhamen’s tomb/the pyramids
- Raise a pig 🤪
- Raise chickens ≈ ✅
- Learn about law
- Marry a very good man (who may be able to a stake president or bishop or fun loving and righteous enough to be one) ✅
- Have an ice cream parlor in my home ≈ ✅
- Go parasailing 🤪
- Learn to single waterski ≈ ✅
- Learn to write calligraphy ✅
- Be morally clean ✅
- Learn to embroider ✅
- Learn to silk screen ✅
- Learn to paint (oil and acrylic)
- Run a nursery school and have uniforms (design the uniforms) ≈ ✅ (=Family Power Preschool)
- Pay tithing on every single penny I earn
- Teach a class in something ✅
- Travel to Denmark
- Travel to Sweden
- Travel to England ✅
- Travel to Ireland
