Forty Before Forty

Forty Things To Do Before I Turn Forty
and seeing as how I'm 35 & 1/2, I should probably get a move on

AKA

My Life List, in no particular order

1. Go on safari in Africa
2. Vagabond across the USA
3. See all fifty states
4. Stand under a sequoia
5. See the Grand Canyon
6. Witness the Northern Lights
7. Eat Lobster in Maine
8. Sail down the Mississippi
9. Go parasailing
10. Travel to Italy
    
11. Travel to France
    
12. Travel to Egypt
13. Travel to Greece
14. Go for a hot air balloon ride
    
15. Write a children's book ( i have three board books written but no idea how to follow thru)
    
16. Write/Make a lifebook type of babybook for babies adopted from foster care
17. Publish said adoption baby book
    
18. Publish a Photo Book of pictures from the south
19. Write my life story
20. Publish my life story
    
21. Declutter
22. Write an article for a parenting magazine
23. Make shit and sell it on Etsy
24. Take the kids ice skating
25. Finish the kid's baby books
26. Redesign this blog/website
27. Make a million dollars (right, i should probably get a job first ...)
    
28. Have a hefty retirement fund (beanie babies are still worth something, right?)
    
29. Earn PhD
30. Go horseback riding on the beach (not really feeling this anymore)
    
31. Go on a cruise (but take my own lifeboat)
    
32. Continue to spend a weekend per year hanging with my bitchz
33. Take the kids to Disney every other year
34. Ride on a camel
35. Own a bookstore (or work in a library, i'm good with either/or)
    
36. Be a good mom to my kids (this should have been #1, oops)
37. Send them to Harvard (or wherever they want to go)
38. Build my sister a house, you know with my own two hands
    
39. Hire someone to build myself a house that is more structurally sound, bigger than a shoe box, and is mold free and contains a hidey-hole for tornado weather (you know, everything that my current home is not)
    
40. Try not to die