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Summer 2025 Bucket List and Goals

Sweet bucketeers, it has been exactly a year since I excavated my bucket list and seasonal goals series from blog posts of the past.  You can read that post, here.  My hopes for last summer’s activities were dashed when I broke my heel.  But I rallied – slowly – and by autumn, I was back […]

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Final Update Spring 2025 Bucket List & Goals

  Hey, ladybugs🐞and flutterbies 🦋, thank you for stopping by to check out my final update on this spring’s bucket list and goals.  I fear there are going to be a number of activities bumped to summer that were also bumped from winter to spring!! The gals listed in the graphic below have also put […]

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Update Spring 2025 Bucket List and Goals

Hey, ladybugs🐞and flutterbies 🦋, thank you for stopping by to check out the precious little progress I’ve made on my  spring 2025 bucket list and goals.  Haven’t earned many of those checkmarks I covet.  But we still have 3 weeks in the season and I often work better under pressure. The gals listed in the […]

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Spring 2025 Bucket List and Goals

Hey, ladybugs🐞and flutterbies 🦋, thank you for stopping by for a peek at my spring 2025 bucket list and goals.  My friend Christie at So What? Now What? calls her seasonal activity lists “possibility lists”.  I like that!  Doesn’t have the same (dark or negative) connotation that is sometimes associated with the idea of a […]

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Final Update for My Winter 2025 Bucket List and Goals

  Hey, ladybugs🐞!! Popping in to share the Final Update for my Winter 2025 Bucket List and Goals.  We’ve made some progress since the last update, here, but I am afraid there may be a few red Xs on some of my hopeful activities. Before we jump in here, just a reminder:  Once Upon a […]

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Update – Winter 2025 Bucket List and Goals

Hey, ladybugs🐞!! Popping in to share my Update – Winter 2025 Bucket List and Goals.  We’ve made some progress but still plenty today before winter’s official end. Before we jump in here, just a reminder:  Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After occasionally uses affiliate links which are usually italicized.  If you click or […]

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