Dream a Little Dream...

I hate the term "Bucket List," I don't know why. But I've been thinking lately along those lines...you know, things I want to do in life, at some point (actually many of these things I want to do now/in the near future, really).

It's funny, it seems like a lot of people think (or communicated to me before I had children, at any rate) that you can either have children OR do other things in life. But I think life is what you make of it and if you want to have kids and do other things too you certainly can. (That said, at the moment there isn't room for much besides kids and work and a few exercise sessions a week. But it won't always be like that and it's good for a girl to dream, right?)

And so, what I'm dreaming about wanting to do at the moment, in no particular order:

• Raising/spending tons of time with my twins (and maybe, hopefully, one more child) and enjoying/appreciating every minute
• Paying attention to and keeping my marriage good and strong
• Finishing and publishing (even if it's self publishing) the four books I have right now in various states of doneness
• Raising the bar on my photography skills
• Having a house that is beautiful and comfortable and us
• Traveling on a regular basis nationally and internationally (I want to go pretty much everywhere)
• Having an old VW camper bus all decked out in cool stuff to do camping/road trips in
• Having a closet full of clothes that are comfortable, make me feel pretty and are appropriate for every situation
• Being able to snowboard again on a regular basis (season pass used multiple times a week kind of deal)
• Surfing again on a regular basis (this assumes someday we'll live by the ocean...which I have a feeling is a ways off...but that's OK...)
• Living in Seattle again (don't know why, but I am so incredibly drawn to that city)
• Having a vacation home somewhere shared with my brother
• Having time to read and reading good books
• Having a good group of local friends (I have great, great friends, but they are all over the place...I need a group of girlfriends I can call up and meet for coffee or a glass of wine)
• Doing something with letterpress and/or bookbinding (I want to make my own little books...)
• Spending lots of time with my parents and brother, whether we live near or far

I know this list is kind of prosaic, but these are the things I know make me happy...

XOXO