I stole this idea from Hula, who has done it for the last several years around her birthday. I made this list last week – it’s not my birthday but I’m halfway between my 25th and 26th birthdays, so this feels both fun and doable. (Perhaps I’ll try another version on my birthday, with more things that might take a whole year to plan and do.) Anyway, here’s the list, in no particular order. I’ll strike through items as I finish them and put asterisks* by the ones I’ve started.
1. Give a heartfelt (and, ideally, eloquent) toast at my sister’s wedding
2. Travel to England with J for two weddings of people we love
3. Finish The Count of Monte Cristo (720-ish pages to go…)
4. Spring-clean my closet
5. Start scrapbooking last year in Oxford
6. Start an herb garden*
7. Blog at least twice a week, except when on vacation
8. Celebrate my first wedding anniversary
9. Go see Rent in Dallas with J
10. Celebrate J’s graduation from MFI in August
11. Write five real letters
12. Visit somewhere I’d like to move
13. Go to the soap company in Strawn, TX, with Bethany
14. See Becoming Jane
15. Have a few more “girls’ days” on Saturdays with Abi, Grace, Kelsey and Bethany
16. Finish watching the complete Gilmore Girls (all 7 seasons), return Charity’s DVDs (which I’ve had since September), and write about my impressions of the series
17. Take a yoga or Pilates class
18. Hang out with our neighbors, the Fletchers, again
19. Host Lifeteam at our house again
20. Host ladies’ coffee night at my house
21. Write a few more poems*
22. Start a big writing project
23. Soak up & savor the Highland family retreat at HEB camp (that was this past weekend, and it was SO FUN)
24. Have several hangout nights with Bethany
25. Travel somewhere I’ve never been
I’ll keep you updated. Off to write a real letter…
cakes, tea and dreams 
I like this idea, Katie! One thing I’d love to do would be to go with our group out to this year-round Christmas store that I saw somewhere between here and Lubbock that one weekend I was supposed to go to Colorado and got sick instead. We could stock up on Christmas decorations!
Wow, what a list! I’m impressed.
This is a great list. I want to do many of the same things, but I’m not sure I can fit them all in a year. Maybe two. You are such an adorable little creature! I’ll be inviting you over for tea and conversation soon.
I have many of the same…
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