So it's 2014! We spent our evening at home, eating Shrimp Alfredo, watching Disney movies, and playing Monsters Inc life...
...oh, yeah...we partied hard.
After putting the little ones to bed I realized I should probably come up with my New years resolution, because even if I failed miserably, at least I had cared enough to try...
Right?
Needless to say, just saying I wanted to lose 10 lbs, improve my business, or go skydiving
*I do not want to go skydiving*
just didn't seem like enough. I was bored already. Then I thought,
"Hey! instead of the usual resolutions, why not make a fun Checklist instead!"
I tell you, the good ideas just flow from me like sap from a tree, like water through a creek, like wine to my mouth...
...so here you have it folks...
Year of the Welch's
2014 Checklist of 100 things to do.
(yes that is the best name I could think of)
- Get the Farmhouse done (that may go without saying, but hey, I had to throw in one easy one)
- Pay for the person's coffee behind me in line at Starbucks
- Wake my children up from bed by barging in their rooms singing "Proud Mary" complete with dance moves first demonstrated by Tina Turner circa 1973. They'll love it...
- Finally watch Casablanca.
- Have my Grandma stay at the Farmhouse with us for a couple weeks after we finish it.
- Lose 10 lbs...afterall, my baby is 2 years old now...
- Get to 1000 likes for A Farmhouse from Chicken Scratch on Facebook (start Sharing please :)
- Try caviar.
- Go to a bar and ask the bartender if I can make my own, legit, Old Fashioned.
- Improve the bakery.
- Grow our cattle count to a whopping 10, count 'em, 10 cows.
- Enroll Lucy in Swim lessons.
- Finish 50 Shades of Grey
- Try wheatgrass
- Become a jogger ...
**excuse me while I fast forward to December 31st, 2014 where I will inevitably find myself dancing a wee jig in front of this list on the refrigerator, looking proudly at every single one of these goals with lines through them, when suddenly my Michael Flatley Lord of the Dance-like moves will cease abruptly..
...#15...
...no line through it...
...son of a mother....
....screwed the pooch the second I wrote that one down...
...just had to be a hotshot didn't ya' Ashley...
...jogging...
...ha...**
16. Enroll Olive in gymnastics
17. Improve my pathetic wardrobe.
18. Finally get glasses....
***seriously, just been hittin' keys on this laptop...
...no idea if words are being formed...
...blind as a bat...
...a bat born with no eyes...
19. Enroll Lucy in guitar lessons
20. Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge without getting extreme vertigo and plunging over the edge.
(yes, this Golden Gate)
21. Throw an epic party at the Farmhouse...Woodstock ain't got nothin on this!
22. Start selling goods at local farmers markets
23. Have family board game night AT LEAST one night a week...no T.V. on in background either.
24. Build the girls a swing set to rival all swing sets...along with the help of my husband of course
25. Create a garden that would make Meryl Streep weep with joy...and jealousy *insert evil grin*
26. Build a chicken coop and give it a swanky name, like "The Ritz Chicken" or "Polo Penthouse"
27. Take my babies to the State fair
28. Wear red lipstick...in public
29. Finally get on trend with scarves... I tried once...looked like I was being strangled...
30. Act like a rich, sophisticated curator on date night with my husband at the Joslyn Art Museum.
31. Walk into a bank and say into my fake watch "I'm in"....and then see what happens.
32. Smuggle a whole pizza and 12 wings into a movie theater.
33. Build my own "vintage, old wood" looking open shelves for Farmhouse kitchen
34. Decide on a stair runner and install it myself
35. Grow, and successfully keep alive, a small herb garden inside the Farmhouse's kitchen
36. Build and paint all the shutters for the Farmhouse exterior.
37. Take Olive to get a pedicure
38. Plant roses along the front porch of the Farmhouse...and keep them alive
39. Finally tackle roasting a rack of lamb for my husband.
40. Help my babies create a lemonade stand this summer
41. Create a big piece of artwork for the house out of paint swatches from Home Improvement stores
42. Build a wall wine rack that looks old and weathered
43. Install the wall phone with the long curly cord
44. Go to HuHot and try a really weird sauce combination
45. Learn latte art
(woah...that's talent)
46. Go back to Bouchon Bakery in California
47. Teach my children how to skip a rock across water
48. Take a family road trip to Neligh, NE for a night at the Drive in movie theater
49. Start canning more on my new cooktop
50. Build a firepit in the backyard
51. Camp in the front yard with my girls
52. Visit a new pumpkin patch at Halloween
53. Try a new hair color
54. Name the Farmhouse and create a plaque for the mailbox
55.Watch all the Harry Potter movies
56. Take my girls for ice cream in the evening in their jammies
57. Go to an Open House for a super expensive mansion and walk through it like I'm paying cash.
58. Create a time capsule with my girls and bury it in our yard.
59. Open an E-Trade account
60. Leave May day baskets with my girls
61. Join a yoga studio
62. Tell a stranger that they remind me of a loved one, and that they just made my day.
63. Teach the girls how to make pancakes
64. Create a photo wall at the Farmhouse
65. Hunt down and pay $450 or less for a good quality 9x12 area rug for the living room
66. Pay for another couples dinner while out to eat with my husband....
...at Taco Bell....
...just kidding, a real restaurant...
...I guess...
67. Host a homemade sushi party at the Farmhouse
68. Go on weekly long walks during the summer with my girls and the hubs
69. Reupholster the chairs from my Craigslist dining room table find
70. Create a chalkboard in the kitchen for grocery lists and "to-do" notes
71. Create a piece of word art made up of Dr. Suess quotes
72. Take a video from the Farmhouse front porch of my girls running after lightning bugs
73. Take the girls back to Morrill Hall to see the dinosaurs
74. Plant fruits trees with the girls, they're choice.
75. Finally go eat at M's Pub downtown (tried eating there at least a dozen times...never works out)
76. Create 3 complete outfits with only $50 at Goodwill
77. Get family pictures taken at the Farmhouse
78. Plant grape vines for future wine making ***insert big stupid grin here***
79. Put pictures of the Farmhouse on www.Houzz.com
80. teach Lucy about 911, and how to use it if it's up to her.
81. Try okra
82. Plant our own sweet corn
83. Take the girls to the Zoo no less than 10 times
84. Take the girls to the Lauritzen gardens
85. Host a poker night
86. Take the girls fishing
87. Finally get my wedding dress cleaned and packed away...
....is 5 years too long to wait before washing out the floor grime and dance sweat?...
....guess we will find out...
... I like to present drycleaners with a challenge...
88. Create an art wall in the girls new toy room
89. Bring my husband breakfast in bed one morning...yes, just once...let's not get crazy here.
90. Go trick or treating as a family with all of us dressed up
91. Take my old dog for some long walks, just him and me.
92. Watch a thunderstorm from the front porch
93. Do a cartwheel....and let my husband videotape it for proof.
94. Re-visit the spot my husband and I got engaged, and take pictures there with our girls.
95. Take a class of any kind with my husband... cooking, painting, sculpting, Krav Maga, anything
96. Finally have a will made up...morbid sure, but responsible I suppose
97. Master the art of the baked donut
98. Enter a contest of any kind...chili making, pie eating, anything County Fair related really will do...
99. Get my first mammogram since my Doctor suggested I begin now...Early detection people!
100. Host an "adults only" wine and board game night at the Farmhouse
So there you have it folks!
My 2014 Checklist.
You don't have to commit yourself to just one or two big accomplishments to feel like your year was a success. I say jam pack it full of a bunch of fun little memories, because those are the ones that will make you smile and laugh to yourself when you think back on them....
... and that's the good stuff right there.
:) Ashley
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