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Family Bucket List Wall

Filed Under: Bucket List Living For Moms, Bucket Lists, Parenting Tagged With: bucket lists, Children, expectations, family, family adventures, family bucket list, goals, tradition, words

Over the past year I’ve been working on my family’s bucket list wall – a pictorial commemoration of the goals we’ve reached and the fun we’ve had living out our bucket list dreams. Here’s the result: I collected these collage frames over time. I knew I wanted to be able to highlight the different types…

New Monthly Blog Feature: The Bucket List Life Dare

Filed Under: Bucket List Life Dare, Bucket List Living For Moms, Bucket Lists, Hopes Tagged With: bucket lists, busy, family adventures, family bucket list, goals, Planning, time

It’s one thing to dream about and discuss our bucket lists. But we hit a whole new level of life experience when we take action, any action. Which is why I am introducing a new monthly feature here on my blog: the Bucket List Life Dare. This week my family celebrates two transitions: my middle…

Life Dreams, Work & Discovering Your Calling: An Interview with Jeff Goins

Filed Under: Books, Life Hacks, Relationships, Self-improvement Tagged With: Books, bucket lists, family, goals, priorities, purpose

Last week I had the privilege of interviewing Jeff Goins, author of the new book The Art of Work, about work, calling and bucket lists. I have followed Jeff since his first e-book The Writer’s Manifesto in which he sets forth the mindset for embracing the calling of being a writer. His other (awesome) books…

Bucket List Time Travel

Filed Under: Bucket Lists, Helping Others Tagged With: bucket lists, Children, family adventures, goals, purpose, self-improvement

Could something you loved as a kid (and then forgot about) be the source of a bucket list dream? Don’t neglect reviewing your childhood for ideas when you make your bucket list. You never know what might be possible! When I was a young girl, I loved the Little House on the Prairie series. I read…

Talk About It: Post-Adventure Family Conversations

Filed Under: Bucket Lists, Parenting, Relationships, Self-improvement Tagged With: bucket lists, character, Children, family adventures, family bucket lists, goals, tradition, words

What kind of conversations do you have with your kids after you’ve reached a bucket list goal? What does your “debriefing” look like? Over Spring Break our family took a few bucket list adventures. Our eldest daughter spent three weeks on a school-sponsored exchange trip to Spain. The rest of us visited the LEGO Discovery…

Abundance: Bucket List Goals in Community

Filed Under: Bucket Lists, Helping Others, Relationships, Uncategorized Tagged With: bucket lists, family adventures, goals

I recently had the opportunity to gather with more than 30 other members of the writer’s guild I belong to for our bi-annual retreat. We held workshops, learned from industry professionals, and heard the stories of published members about their road to publication. But more than that, we shared our lives – our hopes, our…

From Bucket List Wish to Legacy: A Review of the new book The Art of Work

Filed Under: Books, Bucket List Living For Moms, Bucket Lists, Self-improvement Tagged With: Books, bucket lists, future, goals, purpose

Recently I had the opportunity to read an early copy of a new book by Jeff Goins called The Art of Work (coming out next week, March 24th). I have followed Goins’s writing for the past few years, but what impressed me about this book was how well it dovetails with the concepts in my book, Bucket…

The Date Night Passport: A Bucket List for You & Your Sweetheart

Filed Under: Bucket Lists, Holidays, Relationships Tagged With: bucket lists, free, goals, love, Planning

The last date night I had with my husband was the day after Thanksgiving. He won tickets to Muriel Anderson’s annual hometown concert. So the two of us went. It was an evening of fantastic harp guitar music with accompaniment by artists Paul Wertico (from the Pat Metheny Group) and Jeff Coffin of Dave Matthews…

A Family Bucket List Achievement: Trying Middle Eastern Food

Filed Under: Bucket Lists, Parenting Tagged With: bucket lists, Children, family adventures, family bucket list, goals, Good food

It was a chilly December night, but the place was already packed when we arrived with friends. We scrambled to grab two tables as diners cleared their trays to leave. Then our families made our way up to the front counter. Servers behind glass-topped stations took our orders. The chicken shawarma pita caught my attention…

Holiday Helps for Harried Moms

Filed Under: Bucket Lists, Holidays, Hopes, Life Hacks, Planning, Uncategorized Tagged With: family adventures, future, goals, motherhood, multi-tasking, Planning, priorities

It’s the most exhausting time of year! For moms the duties of kid schlepping, meal cooking, and overall household management, are joined by holiday baking, gift buying, card sending, and party coordinating. Put it all together and you end up with many mothers who are barely surviving. I’m right there with them! Why does it end up…