This is my 101st blog post. That’s pretty incredible. I started this blog in the second trimester of pregnancy. I wanted to write about my experience with pregnancy and keep people updated on my life. I didn’t get into the swing of blogging until Cameron was a couple of months old, but since then, I’ve really embraced blogging. It has been an outlet for me, a way to remember this experience, and a way to connect with friends, family, and the internet community.
So, for this hundred and first blog post, I’m going to do something a little different. I’ve seen something around the internets called 101 in 1001. It is kind of like a bucket list – but instead, it is a list of 101 goals to be completed within 1001 days.
I am going to cheat a slight bit. You see, I could come up with 101 goals in a few days, but most of them would just be crap. So, as I’m crossing goals off the list over the last 1001 days, I’m also going to be adding to the list until I hit 101 goals that are actually important to me. Even as I have been thinking about this list over the past weekend, I know that I have thought of goals that I have forgotten as soon as I was about to write them down. So the list will be a work in progress.
1001 days from today will be Monday, July 1, 2013. I will be 27 years old. Cameron will be over 3 years old. Dan and I will be married for just about 5 years. And in 1001 days, these are the things that I want to accomplish:
- Sleep through the night
- Donate blood
- Don’t complain about anything for a week
- Have a completely clean house
- Plan meals for a month
- Cook every meal for a month
- Do Once-a-Month-Cooking
- Bake bread for all of our bread needs for a month
- Bake a cake and use fondant
- Bake cake pops
- Paint a canvas for Cam’s nursery
- Create Cam’s name in letters for his nursery
- Plan an amazing party for Cam’s first birthday
- Potty train Cameron
- Teach Cameron his ABC’s
- Teach Cameron how to count
- Teach Cameron how to count in French
- Be debt free
- Move into a house
- Do taxes in time
- Start my own business
- Make money from my photography
- Complete a 365 day photo challenge
- Apply for my Bachelor of Education
- Go back to school
- Become a teacher
- Don’t give up on Weight Watchers
- Get to my goal weight of 125 lbs
- Run a 5k
- Run a half marathon
- Go skydiving
- Get pregnant
- Have another baby
- Go on a family vacation (to somewhere other than our family’s places).
- Take a trip with just Dan
- Go on one date a month with Dan for a year
- Have a Mom’s night out once a month for a year
- Join (or create) a book club
- Read the entire Bible
- Read 50 books in one year
- Read 100 books
- Start writing a book
- Write a blog post every day for a month
- Get 50 blog followers
So there we have it. 44 of an eventual 101 goals that I will accomplish by July 1, 2013.
I’m excited! What are your goals?
