The Bucket List

Do I need one??  At first blush, sure, yeah, sign me up, sounds like a great idea.  Now thinking…not so much.  Yes, I pinned and pinned this image blindly away on Pinterest–way to line up fun ideas for my family this upcoming summer, right?  But then after some consideration…not so much.  Maybe my mom dying, maybe just perpetual exhaustion from having a 2 yr. old and a 9 mo. old, but I feel like I only know a few things in this life.  First and foremost: it’s short and now is all you have.  It’s great to think about “someday” and eagerly anticipate it’s arrival and all the cool things you are going to do, BUT…it may never happen.  So stash away any lists for me.  I may forget a ton of things I want to/need to do with my kids, but oh well.  Let’s just go old school and go out and play on the swingset, come in for lunch and take a nap.  Maybe tomorrow we’ll remember to color-code our dreams onto matching cards and make tie-dyed t-shirts.  Maybe we won’t…

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Meredith

Meredith blogs at The Mom of the Year, where she dedicatedly earns her title one epic parenting fail at a time, offering quick, relatable laughs for fellow parents and all their empathizers. She has been part of several best-selling anthologies, featured on prominent sites such as Huffington Post, In the Powder Room and BlogHer, and loves her role as the Executive VP/Operations Manager of The BlogU Conference. When she's not breaking up fights over Legos and juice boxes, she remains fully committed to sharing a less serious look at the world of parenting.

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