
- Stay cigarette free. (3+ years and counting!)
- Get the second floor remodel finished. (Please let this be the year.)
- Hang the family wall.
- Unpack and organize arts and craft room.
- Continue to practice unapologetic self-confidence.
- Take impeccable care of myself.
- Celebrate my people.
- Tend the garden.
- Go to Michigan.
- Go to Italy.
- Work on confidence in skiing blue squares.
- Invite people in.
- Get V their license.
- Frame & hang embroidered cities.
- Start another x-stitch project.
- Get a mole screen.
- And a mammogram.
- And a colonoscopy. (Yay 45!)
- Read.
- Make artistic messes.
- Embrace work.
- Take V on college campus tours.
- Purge bookshelves and reorganize.
- Set up a home gym area.
- Use it.
- Earn at least silver in monthly Peloton challenges.
- Purge/deep clean basement storage area.
- Propagate and repot the windowsill cacti.
- Repot the monstera.
- Practice identifying bird calls.
- Knit Jesse socks.
- Knit the sheep pillow to learn bobbles.
- Buy no yarn (excepting yarn club renewal).
- Continue to develop comfort in all things boat – docking, driving, trailering.
- Start step one of the backyard landscaping project.
- Clean out the garage.
- Find a record stand for the office.
- Attend the local knit night at least three times.
- Meditate.
- Sew the recreation blanket.
- Fix the family room cabinet.
- Keep practicing manicure skills.
- Take a class.
- Renew kids’ passports.
- Leave room for surprises.
I love making these lists every year. I surprise myself with what I do (and don’t) manage to check off them and what I find myself repeating year after year. I wonder at what point I’ll stop adding numbers to the list despite adding years to my age. I’m not there yet. Here’s a look at past years: 44, 43, 42, 40, 39, 38