While I was 31 I raised a small boy from 5 months to 17 months, I survived nursing, I survived teething and introducing solids, I survived insomnia, and infant x-rays, I survived my first 5k, 10k and Half-Marathon since becoming a mom - (and let me emphasis that for the Half, it really was just surviving, crossing the finish line with a shoe full of blood in my slowest time yet; but still crossing that finish line upright!)
While I was 31 I took 11 flights, stayed in dozens of hotels, I heard my son giggle, say "mama" and I saw him take his first steps, go head first down his first slide at the park and try to eat yogurt with his own spoon. I hugged my brother, his wonderful wife and my nieces for the first time in two years, I cut my hair, regretted it and grew my hair. I became a working mother, I lost and gained friends, I celebrated 11 years of marriage and I broke my baby toe.
It was a really wonderful year, but also a really, really hard year and tomorrow is my last day of being 31 - so to celebrate this new year, another new start, His new mercies - comes a new list of "things to do".
So here is to a new year, with new challenges, new surprises, new experiences and new blog posts (actually about running I promise)...
32 things to do while I am 32
1.
Eat Thai food at an authentic Thai restaurant
2.
Make homemade dill pickles
3.
Do a
Zumba class
4.
Read a
book a month
5.
Take my
vitamins every day
6.
Watch the
entire “Lost” series
7.
Learn to
change a car tire
8.
Attend a
concert
9.
Read
Revelations
10.
Visit a
new country
11.
Write an
article that gets published
12.
Eat a French
macaroon
13.
Visit Parliament
14.
Get my
legs waxed
15.
Shoot a
handgun
16.
Don’t
read any celebrity gossip for the entire year
17.
Catch a
large mouth bass
18.
Run/Walk
32km a month
19.
Send
snail mail to a friend every month
20.
Volunteer
21.
Go to a
MLB game
22.
Eat dinner
at a restaurant alone
23.
Swim in
all 5 of the Great Lakes
24.
Complete
the “1000 gifts app”
25.
Blog
every month
26.
It’s a
surprise!!!
27.
Cook great
tasting ribs
28.
Plant a
tree
29.
Fly first class
30.
Watch “Legends
of the Fall”
31.
Find a good lipstick color
32.
Visit Joanne
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