Bucket List: Strawberry Picking? Check!

Strawberries.  Num.

Freshly picked strawberries?  Double num.

I've always wanted to head to a strawberry patch to pick fresh strawberries, but the timing has never been right.  Enter 2015.  And our fabulous friends who guided J#4 and me on our first experience...

 The Strawberry Basket Farm in Monticello, MN.

It's only natural I'd take my fruit--especially strawberry--loving girl with on this adventure. 

My imagination lead me to believe it would be a long day at the strawberry patch, but low and behold, about a half an hour garnered about seven huge buckets of strawberries between all of us.  Good thing, since it was a beautiful sunny and hot summer day in Minnesota.

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So one thing checked off the list, means I should add a new thing, right?   Any ideas?

New on the bucket list: UPDATE THE BUCKET LIST!

Hey friends, family, readers!  How are you?  What's news?

Remember the time I lived overseas?  Three of the most interesting years of my life.  Just about four years ago, when we had been there about six months and I had just given birth to my sweet J#4, I created this blog.  The name at the time:  A Drop in the Bucket.   I created a bucket list, and then I'd use the blog as a place to update you on the bucket list progress, and the happenings in our life as expatriates.  It was a great time.

paris.  of course. 

st. andrews, scotland: the old course

The blog evolved into "Living a Listful{l) Life" to include news of bucket list updates and just general musings of a stay at home mom.  When you look up the definition for 'listful', it means "attentive".  And that was {and is} my goal: to live an atttentive, joyful life.

Fast forward a couple of years, and we are settled back in Minnesota. I'm a full time working mom but the rest of my life remains the same...and the bucket list progress has slowed to a trickle.

I've decided its time to jump back in.  Writing the blog, checking items off the bucket list, offering those random musings of an attentive life.

But this is where I need you! What items should I add to my bucket list? I've got a few ideas:  a food truck festival coming to our town this summer and strawberry picking {which has always been on the bucket list, but needs to happen this year!}...but what else should I add?

Let me know in the comments, and check back soon, I'm not going to be a "one hit wonder" this time around.


P.S.  Curious about the J&#'s?  I'll fill you in soon...

Bucket List Update #2

Hope you all had a fantastic weekend!

This one is going to be short & sweet.  Evidently, the hotel we are staying at in Scotland doesn't thing that internet is a necessity in all rooms?

Huh?  Of course it is.

But, I guess I don't run the hotel, so I have to live with my short breaks in the lobby to update ya'll, Facebook, check email and keep up with the world.  Ha.

As far as the bucket list...well,  I did my 4th run for couch to 5K today and we should be registered shortly for the Turkey Day 5K in Minneapolis.  Yippee!

Can I tell you a secret?   This was the first time (I think in my life?) that I did some sort of exercise while away from home.  Must mean I am making some real changes, right?

With lack of internet access, it is allowing for a lot of reading, so have to imagine some progress will be made there too.

So, like I said, short and sweet.  But I have to imagine not having internet might make a good top 10 list for Tuesday... "like top 10 things about NOT having internet".

Now, hopefully I can sneak to the lobby again to post it.

Have a great week, my friends!

p.s.  This was supposed to be published tomorrow, but I guess I am just to excited to be "in touch" so it is being published on Sunday!