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My Boys
The Daily Post’s Daily Prompt for today is: The Satisfaction of a List.
You are asked to make a list, any list, and share it with your readers.
Though I don’t usually manage to churn out responses to the Daily Writing Challenges, this one caught my eye because I am a lister and I love lists.
The list I’m sharing with you:
20 45 Things I’m Afraid I Won’t Get to Do Before I Die:
- Watch my kids go off to Fourth Grade
- Put my toes in the ocean again
- Dance with my sons at their weddings in 15 years or so
- Have my overdue eye exam — and get stylish new glasses
- Hold a new baby
- Be my youngest sister’s matron of honor (she’s 20)
- Get a new puppy
- Hold my grandchildren
- Finish the next season of The Walking Dead
- See Mumford & Sons in concert
- Have the option to opt out of going to my 10-year college reunion (because I don’t feel like going, not because I’m dead)
- Visit my family’s homeland (England/Scotland)
- Celebrate my sons’ 10th birthdays
- Publish my novel
- Finish writing said novel
- Publish a children’s book
- Use my teaching degree
- See some of my dearest friends again — jme, Jin, Loren, Sue, Sheri, Gil
- Make it to another winter (and I hate winter)
- Watch my children graduate from (and start!) high school
- See the love of my life again
- Experience what it’s like to have hormones again (or go a day without being hot and drenched from night/day sweats one minute and then shivering cold the next)
- Shed tears as I pack my kids up for college
- Shed tears as I wave my kids off to middle school
- See my mother happy
- Get divorced
- Be with someone who truly cares for me & who will miss me when I’m gone
- Listen to a lot more music
- Learn to play piano
- Live a day where money doesn’t keep me from doing the things I want to do for my kids
- Travel more
- Start a new job
- Hear that there is a cure/vaccine for cancer
- Show my kids the world
- Fall asleep snuggled next to my kids and my dogs more
- Experience a pain-free day
- Remember what it’s like to have energy
- To stress out about doing next year’s taxes
- Turn 40
- Turn 50
- Turn 60
- Turn 70
- Grow old
- To let go of everything that is holding me back…
- To say that I truly lived — and mean it…
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