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Bucket List Life Dare: Make Spring Break Memorable

Filed Under: Bucket List Life Dare, Planning, Relationships, Time Tagged With: Children, family, family bucket list, future, motherhood, Planning, priorities, treasure

How many spring breaks do you have left with your children? What will you do to make this spring break memorable? Bethany, my eldest, received a packet in the mail this week notifying her that she has a summer job as a lifeguard at a camp in Wisconsin, 100 miles from our home. It wasn’t a complete…

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The Appeal of ‘Just Once’

Filed Under: Choice, Holidays, Life Hacks, Parenting Tagged With: bucket lists, Children, expectations, love, motherhood, priorities, treasure

A handful of years ago, when my daughters were preschool- and elementary-aged, I surprised them with a Valentine’s Tea. I set out my china, made tiny cucumber sandwiches cut in the shape of hearts, baked cookies, and brewed up some hot tea. When they arrived home at the end of the school day, instead of…

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January Bucket List Life Dare: Habits for the Dream Life

Filed Under: Bucket List Life Dare, Self-improvement Tagged With: bucket lists, future, goals, priorities, purpose, self-improvement

For 2016 I plan to read two books each month. That’s not all I plan to do. And it’s not even really a bucket list goal. But setting that intention for the year, I believe, is going to be pivotal to the realization and enjoyment of most of the bucket list goals I hope to…

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Looking Forward and Back

Filed Under: Bucket Lists, Choice, Hopes, Planning, Self-improvement, Time Tagged With: bucket lists, family adventures, family bucket list, future, goals, Planning, priorities, purpose

Has 2015 been a good year for you? Or a struggle? What can you learn from your experiences this year to make the next one even better? What do you most want to see happen in your life in 2016? If you are serious about living your bucket list dreams, then I invite you to…

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Family Bonding Through Bucket Lists – Introducing a New Video Course

Filed Under: Bucket Lists, Hopes, Parenting, Relationships Tagged With: bucket lists, family adventures, family bucket list, fears, priorities

“Gail Carson Levine is coming to Naperville,” my middle daughter Katherine said. “Can we go?” She’d read Ella Enchanted and The Princess Tales. I knew she liked Levine’s books, but when I saw the $25 ticket price, I flinched. It was too much, even with two autographed copies of Levine’s newest book and a chance…

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Simplicity: What Is Your One Thing?

Filed Under: Choice, Holidays, Life Hacks Tagged With: bucket lists, expectations, goals, priorities, purpose

What is your one thing? The goal, experience, skill or what have you that you would love to throw yourself into accomplishing? Or the theme around which you could imagine centering your pursuits? I ask this because one of the dangers we all face in writing our bucket lists is getting so bogged down in experiencing…

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Living the Story You Want to Tell (October’s Dare Accomplished)

Filed Under: Bucket List Life Dares Taken, Helping Others, Self-improvement Tagged With: bucket lists, priorities, purpose, treasure

I rolled down my car window to see the Starbucks menu better in the foggy morning air. I never remember the name they use for the extra-large drink. Venti. With a free drink on my card, I could splurge and go big. Then I glanced in my rearview mirror. An older model Buick had pulled up…

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November Bucket List Life Dare: Express Gratitude

Filed Under: Bucket List Life Dare, Helping Others, Holidays, Self-improvement Tagged With: character, goals, priorities, treasure

Does it ever feel to you like Thanksgiving is here and gone in a flash? Like the blessing over dinner that we pass off as “giving thanks” isn’t proportionate to how much we have to be grateful for? It bothers me, but I have to admit that I’m not very good at doing something about it….

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Ever Felt Overwhelmed By Life? Me Too!

Filed Under: Bucket List Living For Moms, Life Hacks, Planning, Time Tagged With: family, future, goals, multi-tasking, Planning, priorities, self-improvement, time

Yesterday I expected to have time to run out for groceries after I arrived home from work (I work several days each week in a church office). Except that there was the dentist appointment an hour later that I had forgotten about. Dinner ended up being “”baked potatoes & toppings bar” since I was relying…

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Round the World Adventures: An Interview with Kathrin Spaccarelli

Filed Under: Bucket List Interview, Bucket Lists, Parenting, Relationships Tagged With: bucket lists, Children, family adventures, family bucket list, Planning, priorities

Imagine taking your family on a year-long trip around the world. Kathrin Spaccarelli and her husband Nathan did just that with their two boys from September 2013 to September 2014. A longtime love of traveling, plus a desire to introduce their boys to friends and familiar places in Japan (where both Kathrin & Nathan lived…

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