I need to be blunt for a moment. Can you bare with me a sec??
This past week I thought I found something in my body that
would forever alter the course of my life. Dramatic I know, but there you have
it. I spent most of the morning in tears and not focusing on the worst case scenario,
but focusing on if indeed the worst case WAS the scenario. Imagining all the
things I would miss out on. I was sobbing because the thought of even try to
begin to say goodbye my children and husband overwhelmed me with a grief and
sorrow I never knew I was capable of experiencing.
Now before I continue I should say that after further
examination it turned out to be nothing. Weird internal organ positioning --which
caused a cameo of the hypochondriac version of myself. I should clarify that when your grandmother
died the same age you are now of breast cancer, your red flags are always at
half-mast.
This crazy turn of events led to another fun character trait
I occasionally let out of the box {smidge extreme}. I decided to put pen to
paper and actually whip out my bucket list that has been accruing in my brain
for the past few years.
Have you ever made a bucket list? I feel like I’m ahead of
the curve since I’m only 26 and have a while before I’m 87, since I decided
that’s when I’ll be happy to head for heaven. If you haven’t made a bucket;
what are you waiting for? Start out small, what’s the one thing at the top of
your list you will be doing in your life?? These things don’t have to be
extreme my friends, I just know how we can become very comfortable in our
everyday routines and get stuck in the mind frame of “Oh, I can do it
tomorrow.” But it was the wise Benjamin Franklin who said one of my favorite
quotes, “Never leave that for tomorrow
what you can do today.”
Etheline’a Bucket List: {in no particular order}
1. GREAT Dave Matthew seats
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3. Take the kids to see the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade
4. Read the BBC Top 100 books
5. Narrate and audio book
6. Spend 3 months straight surfing
7. Run a marathon {half, full, quarter…lol}
8. Celebrate my 65th wedding anniversary with
Royal
9. Become fluent in Italian--plus
10. Become fluent in Swedish
11.Bake my way through my favorite baking cookbook
12. Live in Philadelphia
13. Season tickets to Phillies game and go to every home
game
14. Road trip and attend a baseball game at every park in
the US
15. Camping for New Years in Maine to be the first person to
celebrate new years
16. See Redwood National Park
17. Go to the ice hotel in Sweden
18. See the aurora borealis
19. take route 66 and
21. Attend the Kentucky derby and wear a massive hat
22. Go to finals of the tennis grand slams
23. meet an A List celebrity {Martin Sheen, Rachel McAdam,
Julia Roberts, ect}
24.Attend a taping of BBC Top Gear
25.
26. Take a pottery class
27. Live on a sail boat for a month
28. Live in Central/South America
29. Go to a butterfly garden
30. See the Taj Mahal
31. Cover my hands with Henna
32. Walk the El Camino de Santiago with Royal
33. Motorcycle through Vietnam when the kids are older
34. Publish a book
35. Be a mother that
my children love and respect/
37. Read the Book of Mormon in a month
38. Become a certified sharpshooter
39. See Phantom of the Opera on Broadway
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