Welcome friends,
It’s that time again…time for the reveal of another season’s bucket list. Gathering with some of my favorite blogging buddies to share our 2018 Winter Bucket Lists. I took a different approach in creating my list this time around. Instead of listing very specific details, decided to make the 15 activities on this winter bucket list a little broader. A little less defined. Since beginning this series with my 2016 Autumn Bucket List, I’ve learned a few things. Recently I have come to realize that I can get more caught up in making sure an activity happens rather than actually enjoying myself when it does. Hoping this 2018 winter bucket list relieves the self-imposed anxiety I am feeling over trying to accomplish everything. Want to make sure I remember that the point of these exercises is to live life more consciously. And to pack some new experiences in with the everyday routines.
That being said, let’s see what I’ve planned to enjoy this winter.
2018 Winter Bucket List
That’s fifteen, count ’em, 15 experiences. Here’s the break down.
Susie Homemaker
- Make Grandma Rosebrough’s cinnamon and orange rolls – continue the tradition and my girls love them.
- Clean house from top to bottom to include purging closet – carried over from my autumn bucket list; time to part with some clothes.
- Transfer our homemade peach wine into bottles to continue ferment – PC and I started this project in the summer with peaches from our yard.
A Family Affair
- Take a picture with all the girls – will be with Brennyn and Lauren, Cady and Lucia early in January. We have to get a good photo!
- Plan a special weekend with PC – he leaves for Germany again in early March; want to plan a get-away before he goes.
- Skype with Cady and Lucia – want to read with my girls and just participate more albeit long distance in their day-to-day lives.
Crafty Like a Fox
- Become more confident with my camera – for fashion posts out in the real world as well as general picture-taking.
- Continue work on my craft projects – continue work on my mosaic and cross-stitch projects, scrapbook with my sister.
- Attend a craft class – maybe another painting class at Hobby Lobby or Wood and Wine at I Painted That!
Beauty and the Beast
- Try five new Weight Watchers recipes; track points M-F – make M-F my diet days, try new Weight Watchers “Freestyle” recipes.
- Get back to lifting weights 4x a week…keep track – get back into a gym routine with weights, running and hydro-massage.
- Continue with Miracle Morning, read Finding Your Balance – begin my days with Miracle Morning: SAVERS silence/affirmations/visualization/exercise/reading/scribing.
Writing on the Wall
- Add two new lessons to TpT store – add products to my Teachers Pay Teachers store and boost sales.
- Create a blogging schedule, put it in my agenda and write my blog – Open my new agenda, fill it in and follow it in order to create a real blogging routine.
- Write my mom a letter with pictures several times a month – in addition to calling mom more often, I want to write her more often and include pictures from our lives.
What else?
You might have noticed I didn’t add any philanthropic endeavors. That doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying to do nice things, paying it forward, thinking of others. But rather than doing those things because my bucket list says I should, this winter I want to just do them, naturally, instinctively, impulsively.
Do you kind of see how my list this time is a little more general? Kinda? Really want to return my focus to enjoying these activities rather than just doing them because I said I would here. Hoping by making them less confining, it will be easier to do that.
Your Turn
What’s on your agenda for the hibernation season? Won’t you share any special plans or projects in a comment below. And if you have a winter bucket list post to share, please link-up with us.
Had planned to share my Mini Christmas Bucket List update and a final progress report on my Autumn Bucket List with this post but have decided to keep this short and sweet. Which means you will just have to come back again to see how I wound things up on those lists. Promise you will?
Thank you for coming by. Stay warm this weekend as we approach the big day!
Hugs and kisses,
Love your themes! I too theme my three month action plans (my term from years of working). Some of mine: Play with Words, Couple Comraderie, Time with Tim (he’s my hubby). Looking forward to hearing how your bucket lists progresses.
Action plans sound familiar. I think that is a buzz term here in the schools. That probably more accurately describes my list because it isn’t a bucket list as in before I kick the bucket!!
Love your themes. I have just started using themes which has helped me to balance my list of activities. Hope you will link up with us on 1.21.18 to share your action plan progress. If you would like to be added to our email reminder group for bucket list posts and link-ups, let me know. The more the merrier!!
Love it. I think being a bit more general is always a great idea. I usually pick things that I know I am going to be doing anyways, or hope to at least.
I need to make more of a blogging schedule too. Maybe that will be one of my goals for 2018. Who knows. Haha. I am just trying to survive the last two days of work before our 2 week break!
Merry Christmas!!
I sat with a list of all of the link-ups I want to participate in and put them in my agenda. Now to open my agenda now and then!! Ha! I can send you the ones I wrote down, if that helps! Just holler.
Off for walk with PC on this Christmas Eve afternoon. Have a picture perfect day tomorrow. Lots of love!!! XO
I can totally relate to getting caught up in checking things off the list, rather than enjoying the experience. I love your new focus for winter. I am also planning to fix some new Weight Watchers recipes, but I’m less ambitious–I’m only going for three. 🙂 I also have goals about reading and photography. We have so much in common. I look forward to reading your updates. I love the mutual encouragement and support of our blogging friends. Happy winter!
So glad to have you doing these bucket list posts with us. We do have very similar lists for winter. If you want to do a Weight Watchers Tasty Tuesday post with me, let me know. Maybe we could each feature a new recipe? And share each other’s permalinks to refer readers to one another’s blogs? I noticed with this new Freestyle WW, I only have 23 points a day. Geez. There are some more things that are zero or one point so that helps but it is hard to stay within 23 points a day.
I have a couple of reading link-ups I am hoping to join. If you are interested in those, let me know.
Hoping to savor my winter list rather than try to rush through it. Happy winter and merry Christmas!
That seems to be a very do-able list – you’re going to enjoy ticking those things off as the weeks go by!
After Christmas I intend to get back into my Slimming World ways – this year has been fabulous with so many celebrations but my waistline is suffering for it. No point in planning to be ‘good’ for the next week but we are taking the family for a long weekend to a place called Center Parcs which is a resort of woodland lodges, all around an indoor dome which is full of swimming pools, wild water rapids, lazy rivers and yes you’ve guessed it, all involves being in a swimsuit! Aarghhhh!!!!! After Christmas I will have two weeks to undo the ravages of 12 months – wish me luck!
Ha!! You always make me laugh. Just finished a sugar cookie and have two pies baking in the oven. Absolutely no point in doing Weight Watchers til the holidays are behind us. I looked up Slimming World and it sounds a lot like WW. In fact, it says Slimming World is now available in the U.S. Might have to investigate further.
Oh, Center Parcs sounds divine!!! Which one will you be visiting? Are you staying in a tree house, or water front, or what kind of lodge? Can’t wait to hear more. My family would just love a vacation like this. In fact, my oldest daughter is getting married next December (at least that is the plan now…might wind up eloping!) and it would be fabulous for all of us to do something like Center Parc for the wedding celebration.
I am certain you will be good to go for a bathing suit. We just need to get through this delicious week of overindulgence and we will both be back on our game. Merry Christmas!!
Excellent topic to write about. It may be a bit generalized but those are fantastic things to do starting the new year. While I haven’t exactly made a list yet I’d like to take time to self-reflect and better myself, be more organized, excercise more, eat healthier, and pay it forward.
Hello, new friend!! Welcome. So glad you found your way to my blog. I am going to stop by yours in a moment. Would like to invite you to join us for the bucket list series. We post the 21st of each month. So our first winter update will be 1.21. If you haven’t made a list yet, you could do so and publish your list then join us on the 21st for an update post. We will update again on 2.21 and then realize our spring list on 3.21 with a final update on winter’s list. There are a great group of gals joining in. Very supportive and very interesting in their pursuits and activities! If you are interested, just holler back!!
Thank you so much for you kind comments on my bucket list. Here’s to a fabulous winter for us both!
Enjoy the experiences that your great list will bring, Leslie. I’m purging my closet, too. I started a blogging schedule in the fall and it helped me stay organized. Wow to have peaches in your own yard and to make wine from them!
I am glad to have taken the time to put the link-ups I want to join in 2018 into my agenda. Now to remember to open my agenda!! I also want to plan some of my own posts ahead of time. While flying by the seat of my pants has worked fairly well to this point, it does make me a little nervous!!
It will be hard for me to part with some of the clothes in my closet but bottom line is I just don’t wear them all. And I need to stick to my guns, that if I haven’t worn a piece in many moons, it’s time to let someone else enjoy it. Good luck to you and your purge!
Merry Christmas.
I love the idea of writing a letter to your mom with pictures. I just might add that to something I do in 2018. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas!
Lisa
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Thank you, sweet friend. Thank you for coming by. I am so blessed to still have my mom, after the ups and downs over the past three years. I miss the days when she still emailed but since she has about lost her sight, that is not possible. Hoping to type letters to her and use a very large font to make them readable. Then include a photo or two of the grands, my daughters or just life in general at our house.
Thank you again for visiting. Merry, merry Christmas, beautiful, thoughtful friend.
I love that you’re going with a more general bucket list. I tried to keep some of mine a bit more general – but I do have things that I specifically wanted to do or places I wanted to go. I think a mix is nice!
-Lauren
Mixing the specific items with general activities or goals is a good way to go with the bucket lists. I think with my fall list I was very specific and that didn’t leave much room to fudge a little! So glad you are joining us for this series. Merry Christmas!
What a great list! I love that most of your things are quality time goals…and that half of them are shared with someone special to you! Lovely!
Thank you, Em! Hope to be 100% successful at enjoying and completing my winter bucket list.
What a nice list. I’m trying to get my family together for a family photo (it’s so hard now that everyone is either working or in college or something). You never think they’ll grow up and spread out, ya know?
Writing letters and sending hard pictures is a wonderful idea too. My mom prefers photo albums to digital albums, so I may have to incorporate that into 2018.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours (even though I’m sure we’ll talk again before the big days).
When my mom was still emailing, it was easy to share photos. But now that she is no longer emailing, I am resorting to old snail mail to share photos. I call mom all the time, too, but want to include her in our lives through photos of the grandbabies and my daughters and our day-to-day lives. I am so frustrated that when we were all together for my mom’s 90th birthday, we didn’t take a family photo! What in the world!!! I hope we have another chance for that picture. In the meantime, I will see both of my girls for a day or two in January so I absolutely want to be sure to get a photo of us then.
So glad to have met so many wonderful, warm, accepting bloggers this year. Looking forward to getting to know you better in the new year. Merry Christmas and happy new year to you. XO
It is easy just to write a long list and then try to rush through to accomplish it all, isn’t Leslie? I love your list and although I didn’t write it I would love to improve my blog photography over the coming months. I’m hoping to get back to full training now that my back is improving – very frustrating but I have to be patient. The first thing you should tick off the list is a photo with your girls – make it happen! Have a very Happy Christmas and a fabulous New Year, Cuz! It has been so great connecting with you this year and I look forward to more chats in 2018. xx
Merry Christmas, cuz!! Hope you are knee-deep in family and your heart is overflowing with love tonight. Maybe we can both work on improving our blog photography together in the coming year. I will keep an eye open for online resources to help us improve our skills. I know you are frustrated having to go slowly with your back. I think you and I are not the type to go slowly doing things. But take care of that back now and maybe you will never have to worry about it again.
Looking forward to a bright new year getting to know you better! XO
Family photos are the best, but why is remembering to take them when the moment presents so darn hard???
Your list seems really well balanced Leslie, and just the right amount to motivate without overwhelming. Those closets purges though, sigh, are they ever done? It seems like things slip in just as quickly as they go out, for me at least. And they go out in stages- first to the hallway, then the laundry room, then the garage, then finally off to the trash or donation pile.
Looking forward to continuing to build our blogging relationships in 2018! Merry Christmas!
Love how you purge things in stages, moving them toward the trash or donation pile! I have been holding on to a number of pieces that I haven’t worn but haven’t wanted to purge either. But the time has come! There is a consignment shop I can take the better things to. But I like donating to Candlelighters, too, so may just bundle up everything for a donation.
Keep your fingers crossed that I get that photo taken with my daughters and grandbabes. Ideally, we could get a photographer to take some pictures. But if not, I will take what we can get with our cameras. So badly wanted to take a photo when we were all with my mom in March and completely forgot to do it. Crazy!
I am looking forward to growing our friendship in the coming year. Merry Christmas, dear Tamara.
You’re bucket list posts always exhaust me. Lol! You have so much ambition and energy! Love it!
Awww, thank you, Amy! Come join us. Think about joining for spring. You can make just a mini list and give it a try! We would love to have you! And this is such a great group of gals. Very supportive. Merry Christmas!