Before I Die

I'd like to:

• Be published in a food journal or magazine
• Publish a book
• Spend a summer chasing tornadoes with the boys
• Open a restaurant/bakery/catering business
• Give birth to a baby girl*
• Take the children out of school for a year and take a cruise around the world
• Teach in a classroom of some sort
• Perform as the lead in some community musical theater
• Live in a foreign land
• Publish poetry
• Have 12 kids and a reason to buy #10 cans of peaches from Costco
• Have a really interesting house with either colorful eclectic furnishings or clean and crisp white hues
• Serve a mission
• Study at the Cordon Bleu
• Have fresh flowers constantly on my tables
• Be the proud owner of a walk-in-freezer and a Hobart mixer (and maybe a proofer, but that's just getting greedy)
• Have tight abs
• Play my viola in a symphony orchestra
• Sleep in

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(to be continued)

*Let's be honest, this may just be a passing fantasy and I'm more likely to get that walk-in-freezer than a baby girl. But everyone has got to have an impossible dream, right?