101 Things

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101 Things in 1001 Days  

Start Date: January 12, 2012  End Date: October 9, 2014

1.    Donate a Bar/Bri course to a needy student.

2.    Get all my diplomas professionally framed (so they match)!

3.    Get WHM’s newborn photos

4.    Get WHM’s 6-month photos

5.    Get WHM’s 1-year photos

6.    Take the kids to feed the ducks at Southaven Park *This is half done. I took WHM to the park, and we fed the ducks while CAM was at baton camp July 2014.  

7.    Take the kids to Disney World  Done!  June 23, 2012

8.    See TPIR with Mick

9.    Get CAM and WHM on skates! Done! Fall/Winter 2013-14 WHM started, and CAM followed with figure skating lessons Winter 2014 and they both did a hockey clinic at the start of summer 2014. They love it, and hockey will likely be in our lives for some time to come!

10.  Go to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

11.  Go to a Broadway Show with Mick and spend the night in the city

12.  Run a 5k

13.  Run a 10k

14.  Run a half marathon

15.  Fill in the kids’ baby books to be current

16.  Take a cooking class

17.  Visit Charleston

18.  Go to mass at “our” church in Savannah

19.  Go to our church here every weekend for six weeks straight

20.  Make homemade ice cream sandwiches once a month for three months straight

21.  Make a banner using my Cricut/Silhouette  Done!  March, 2012

22.  Go on a rowboat

23.  Ride a real roller coaster, preferably with Mick Half done!  June 23, 2012 -- Space Mountain with CAM  Now, to get Mick on a coaster ...

24.  Take a photography class  Done!  April 19, 2012 <<-- and then in June, I took the intermediate class!

25.  Actually grow a vegetable garden (or at least, more than just tomatoes)

26.  Cut our own Christmas tree

27.  Unpack/sort/file every box – no piles, no boxes to go through later Done! August 8, 2014. 

28.  Get CAM /WHM/us a real bedroom set

29.  Get a real couch!

30.  Spend an entire week without going out to eat even once, four separate times

31.  Take and pass the patent bar

32.  Get new passports

33.  Use them

34.  Have fresh flowers in the house every day for a month

35.  Crochet something from a pattern

36.  Knit something from a pattern

37.  Clean/preserve my wedding gown. I mean, it’s only been ten years.

38.  Go to the Bryant Museum Done!  June 19, 2012

39.  Do three “touristy” things in Alabama

40.  Do three “touristy” things in Georgia

41.  Visit Washington, DC and go to the Smithsonian

42.  Have a snowball fight *I feel certain we've had a snowball fight or two with all the snow we've had in Maine Winter 2013 and Winter 2014 -- but I never recorded it. So, this is only sort-of crossed off.

43.  Have a family move night – no interruptions – six separate times

44.  Take the kids to the movies – six separate times  #1:  The Lorax, April 20, 2012; #2: Pirates Band of Misfits May 1, 2012; #3: Brave, June 25, 2012; #4: Monsters University, June 20-something, 2013; #5 and #6 -- drive-in movies here in Maine Summer 2013. (Planes, Despicable Me 2, Smurfs 3, and Monsters University (again, part of a double feature!))

45.  Have a puppet show with the kids

46.  Finger paint

47.  Bake a cake in each of my WS pans (I have about 30)

48.  Join Tide Pride

49.  Picnic with the family

50.  Make our wills

51.  Drink 64 ounces of water every day for a week

52.  Read the entire Bible

53.  Go to a concert

54.  Fly a kite

55.  No fast food for an entire month!

56.  Visit a new state

57.  Make a t-shirt quilt

58.  Run a six-minute mile

59.  Go 24 hours without checking email

60.  Visit a cave

61.  Jump rope for 5 minutes without stopping

62.  Get McNoodle going!

63.  Enter a contest (done!  April 29, 2013 -- Mom/Daughter Look-Alike!)

64.  Play in the rain with the kids

65.  Go to a Sox game as a family

66.  Take the kids to an Alabama football game

67.     Blog faithfully for two weeks straight (done!  January, 2012)

68.     Cook dinner every night for a week (done!  August 1-8, 2012)

69.     Organize our holiday décor tubs

70.     Leave a 100% tip  (done!  April 25, 2013)

71.     Donate something that I really wanted to sell (done! February 8, 2012)

72.     Have a “Favorite Things” party

73.     Get a new bedding set for Mick and me … a set we both love

74.    Keep a thankfulness journal for a year (done!  2012)

75.    Take the kids skiing

76.    Establish a family movie/game night and stick to it!

77.    Master my own recipe for a pomodoro sauce

78.    Master my own recipe for a pizza sauce

79.    Cook homemade spaghetti/pasta enough to make it routine

80.    Invent my own recipe for something

81.    Double my previous salary

82.    Find and compile and back up all of our digital photos

83.    Make photo albums for the kids from those photos

84.    Get new pots!

85.    Run for school board

86.    Swim in the ocean with the kids Done!  We did this at Smith Point Park in NY, Summer 2013 and again (minus Mick this time) Summer 2014.  

87.    Clean/purge/organize the basement – all of it! 

88.    Play the flute again and practice 4x a week for a month

89.    See a friend we haven’t seen in over a year -- two different friends (Liza, 8/16/2012 -- lunch at CJ's in NH.) 

90.    Make homemade sausage

91.    Go to a concert with Mick three times

92.     Pin something original on Pinterest and get 100 repins  (Done!  May, 2012.  My post about Sight Words Candyland with my list of words has well over 200 pins as I type this!)

93-101 are private goals.  (Get your head out of the gutter, not THAT kind of private!)  They exist, I promise, but I don't think I'll blog about them ... or at least, not yet.  :)

Bonus items:
Take the kids to the circus *Another sort-of-done one. My mom took the kids and me to the circus on Long Island July 2014, but Mick didn't get to come.  Since it wasn't a full-family turnout, I can't really cross this off.  The kids can say (finally!) that they have been to the circus, but it's not quite cross-off-able.
Take the kids to a live show (Disney on Ice or some such ...) (done!  February 6, 2013)
Go to a Patriots game at Foxboro.  (No, I have never been.  I know, I know.) 
Learn how to play craps
Organize the pantry, once and for all (done!  1/19/2012)
... likewise, the spice cabinet  (done!  1/16/2012)
Take the family to Disney World, and stay on property (goal is to do this with Courtney) <-- this is half done.  We went to Magic Kingdom, but didn't stay on property.  Hoping to go again soon!
Take the kids to a Broadway show 
... and while we're at it, be tourists in the city for a few days.  Statue of Liberty, Empire State, etc.
Decorate a cake with fondant, going all out -- AND love the outcome (done!  CAM's birthday, 2012)

Visit the Biltmore Estate in Asheville 
Visit Charleston
Visit Key West