My 30's

I got this idea from a friend that turned 30 a year ago. She made a list of things she wanted to accomplish in her thirties. I thought it was a great idea! I really believe that when you set a goal you are more likely to make the choices that allow you to accomplish it, rather than it just happening. So I set out to make my list of 30 things to do in my thirties, I turned 30 yesterday and don't have the list completed yet, but here is the first half:

1. Find a house (tomorrow?)
2. Pay off all our debt
3. Go back to nursing school (and then pay that off!)
4. and graduate from nursing school
5. Run a marathon
6. Learn to swim
7. Lose the rest of this "baby weight"
8. Take the kids on vacation
9. Fund my retirement again (:
10. Do something completely childish once a week (with my kids).... although now that I think about this, they may not be excited about this in my late thirties!
11. Be more involved in my church... (I think we found a new church, Journey Ministries)
12. Go on a trip with just Mark, this won't happen until the day before I turn 40, given the way I feel about leaving the kids!!
13. Take and keep taking a yoga or pilates class
14. Learn to cook.... beyond kraftfoods.com (:
15. Grow a plant from a seed.... this has been a yearly event and I never seem to make it past the sprout stage.

Mark was curious what I was calling my thirties, so these are the labels I came up with for the following decades of my life:

Thrilling Thirties, Fabulous Forties, Fantastic Fifties, Super Sixties, and Satisfying Seventies..... if I'm still typing at 80 then I need to find something better to do, but I guess I could go with the Enlightening Eighties... you know, because I will be sooo wise(: