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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:

1. Watch my kids go off to Fourth Grade
2. Put my toes in the ocean again
3. Dance with my sons at their weddings in 15 years or so
4. Have my overdue eye exam — and get stylish new glasses
5. Hold a new baby
6. Be my youngest sister’s matron of honor (she’s 20)
7. Get a new puppy
8. Hold my grandchildren
9. Finish the next season of The Walking Dead
10. See Mumford & Sons in concert
11. 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)
12. Visit my family’s homeland (England/Scotland)
13. Celebrate my sons’ 10th birthdays
14. Publish my novel
15. Finish writing said novel
16. Publish a children’s book
17. Use my teaching degree
18. See some of my dearest friends again — jme, Jin, Loren, Sue, Sheri, Gil
19. Make it to another winter (and I hate winter)
20. Watch my children graduate from (and start!) high school
21. See the love of my life again
22. 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)
23. Shed tears as I pack my kids up for college
24. Shed tears as I wave my kids off to middle school
25. See my mother happy
26. Get divorced
27. Be with someone who truly cares for me & who will miss me when I’m gone
28. Listen to a lot more music
29. Learn to play piano
30. Live a day where money doesn’t keep me from doing the things I want to do for my kids
31. Travel more
32. Start a new job
33. Hear that there is a cure/vaccine for cancer
34. Show my kids the world
35. Fall asleep snuggled next to my kids and my dogs more
36. Experience a pain-free day
37. Remember what it’s like to have energy
38. To stress out about doing next year’s taxes
39. Turn 40
40. Turn 50
41. Turn 60
42. Turn 70
43. Grow old
44. To let go of everything that is holding me back…
45. To say that I truly lived — and mean it…

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