Sometimes being a SAHM is very hard.  And lonely.  And it sometimes makes me feel like I’m boring.  I’m sure I’m not, but I often feel that way.

I often feel like I don’t have a lot to contribute to adult conversations since my days are spent playing pretend police and house games, changing poopy diapers, making snacks and lunches, and building with blocks.  This of course all while trying to fit in some emails, dishes, laundry, dinner, a shower (can I get an amen!?) and a dozen other things that fall to me from finances/bills to keeping track of family birthdays and events to just keeping the house moving along.

Then, after the day is done and long after I should have gone to bed, I stumble across this blog of a girl and her bucket list.  She has a GREAT list.  I’m into bucket lists lately and have even started my own.  I started reading some of what is on hers and realize that I have done many of the things on her list.

The feeling of having already done something that is on someone else’s bucket list is pretty heady.  It made me feel as if my life is not so boring after all.

I started to feel quite a bit better about myself.  And I started to think about how often things that I think are no big deal, others think are fantastic and vice versa.  For example, others think it’s great that I have traveled and lived overseas.  To me, it’s no big deal.  But the fact that my friend Anne can sew a dress!  Well, to me, that is amazing.  I can sew on a button.  By hand.  I can’t do sewing machines.  I have broken sewing machines before.  It’s not pretty.  I have wanted to learn to sew for as long as I can remember.   It’s very daunting to me, while to others it’s something they’ve been doing for ages and not a big deal.

So, no matter who you are and what might be on your bucket list, there is a very good chance that something you have done or can do, whether it be to travel, scrapbook, finish college, live in Manhattan, climb a mountain, go camping, sew a dress, knit a scarf, write a story, take a pottery class, save money with coupons, fly somewhere, cook Thanksgiving dinner, get out of debt, become a parent, skydive…whatever…it is more than likely on somebody else’s bucket list.

When I think about it that way, I’ve done and can do some pretty cool stuff.  And I’m guessing the same is true for you.