What’s On Your Bucket List?

Just felt inclined to post my bucket list today… So, without further a do:

Top 12:

1. Remember daily to completely and totally trusting “everything” to God. a.) be able to Reflect upon my greatest weaknesses, and realize how they are can also be my greatest strengths/assets because they draw me nearer to God.

2. (learn how to) Evangelize for Christ in my community and maybe one day nationwide. a.) Learn to use a microphone and to speak (effectively) in public.

3. Fall as deeply in love – as one human possibly can another – with my husband.

4. Become the type of Mom that helps her children and family to make life-time memories, which make them look back at 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 etc. and smile in happy reflection of days gone by.

5. (Save money to) Take our children to Disney World.

6. (Save money for) A Missions tour for Christ in another country.

7. Have a portrait painted of Juan and me – oil painting family heirloom style.

8. Be able to plant and grow a beautiful garden.

9. Be a mentor to young women ages 18-25 years old.

10. Teach illiterate people to read — what would life be like without the joy of being able to read a book? I can only imagine!!

11. Be able to give to charity abundantly – anonymously.

12. Get physically into optimum health & shape.

Not particularly ordered but still important to me:

~ Re-Learn to play my saxophone with some degree of skill.

~ Learn to sing in tune.

~ Read & Complete one book every 2 weeks.

~ Learn how to take a compliment.

~ Overcome fears of failure.

~ Accept self for who I am… who God made me to be.

~ Send mom a dozen white roses for Mothers Day each year.

~ Look into my children’s eyes, see myself, and smile.

~ Visit the Holy Land.

~ Masters degree.

~ Send a message in a bottle.

~ Learn to ballroom dance properly.

~ Attend at least one major sporting event: the Olympics, the U.S. Open.

~ Continue my language studies — Learn to speak Spanish and/or Arabic with better accuracy – fluently.

Now then that’s mine…… What’s On Your Bucket List?

Mini Mi – Penny for your thoughts…

So, we are trying to convince Mini Mi that taking my purse, hiding in the closet, removing and saving my belongings [she especially likes my face power, mascara, and lip gloss] for future use… Tearing my dollar bills in half, returning [only] the other half to my purse… is wrong!

Her Daddy told her “this is called stealing and it is wrong.” Her reply, which was animatedly accompanied by indescribable facial expressions, hands waving and finger pointing, was:  SHH, Quiet! Its Mine!”

And me; I don’t even know what to do but laugh, but not in front of her mind you!

She just seems to be determined to have a collection of my belongings  in her closet, clothing drawers, or other undiscovered secret places… and as I write this she is proudly prancing about with black looking warrior marks [the mascara] streaked across both eye lids. I wish the web cam was working about now, so I could share a picture of this with you! However, I’m feeling pretty sure that you [at least the moms anyway] can mentally picture this and heartily laugh without one!

Yep, our Mini Mi is a most tenacious and feisty three year old, hence my hubby nick naming her “Mini Mi.” Truth is, he loves her resemblance to her tenacious, sometimes stubborn mommy! ;-) My quick witted temperament and pull er up by the boot strap attitude, if need be, was a source of wonder and attraction to him back in our prior marriage days… and I suspect [even be it to his bewilderment sometimes] that it still is! LOL

A few months ago, I shared with Mrs. Williams “Mini Mi’s” ability to frustrate the hay out of her Sunday school teachers by [often] suddenly and without notice escaping their class, which has locks and latches that she cannot reach. They have no idea how she gets the door open because if she used something to stand on it would seem that it would block the door from opening. This is not a very big room either…

Ms. Williams said, “She is going to be a prophetess.” …and then I start thinking, well praise the Lord that at least Juan and I now understand such things as this; so maybe she won’t have to struggle down some of the paths we did! Which, by the way, is one of my main concerns in her having such a kindred spirit to mommy.

But really what to do with her…? We don’t want to break her will; that often seemed to be the goal of many parents when Juan and I were growing up. I firmly believe that she’s going to strongly need that daring, spunky, feisty little tenacious attitude in this [sometimes very mean] old world as she grows up. This world is not getting any better; it is getting worse day by day… And I can testify that its evil would have literally swallowed me whole [many times] if God had not blessed me with the strengths that He did… no, indeed I did not save myself, His blessings and favor did.

Any whom, purse is rescued, other half of dollar permanently lost it seems, and I’m going back to my school work now.

Penny for your thoughts…