52 Week Challenge – 100 Dreams

Dreams…do you have any? What are your goals and ambitions in life? I have so many and lucky for me, this weeks challenge is to tell you all about my 100 dreams and ambitions! Most of my dreams center around my husband and kids, but I do have quite a few of my own! Read my 10 dreams and then leave me a comment about some dreams of your own!

1. First and foremost, my biggest dream is that my kids are always happy and healthy. I hate seeing them sad and while this year was a rough one for one of my kids, I know that child is stronger and better because of everything.
2. I want to become a published author. Originally I wanted to write children’s books, but I think Young Adult is my genre.
3. Visit Vegas with my husband and renew our wedding vows with Elvis marrying us.
4. Build our own house with a large kitchen…it must have an island in the center!
5. Going along with the new house…it must also have a circle driveway. I’ve always wanted one of those!
6. That my husband and I could have a business together that we work out of our home. Not quite sure what the business would be yet!
7. I would like to lose 90+ lbs…and keep it off!
8. I want to take a family vacation to the Smokey Mountains where I went for Brandcation!
9. Bella is obsessed with animals. I hope that one day she can have a career that resolves around animals!
10. I would like to start having date night with my husband at least twice a month.
11. Go back to school and get a degree in Creative Writing.
12. Build an amazing Young Living business and inspire others to go on their oily journey.
13. Go to a scrapbook retreat once or twice a year with friends.
14. Actually finish my kids scrapbooks.
15. Get doubles of every picture, labeled and everything for each kid.
16. I would like to take a road trip in an RV…a fancy RV like the one in Meet the Fockers. Yes…I’m serious!
17. I would love to have one of my blog posts go ridiculously viral.
18. It would be nice to earn enough money, just myself, that would allow me to support my family.
19. Get a hammock for the backyard.
20. Build a house with ZERO neighbors.
21. Go on another Royal Caribbean cruise with my husband.
22. While I am waiting to go on my next Royal Caribbean cruise, I’d love to do one of the dinner cruises on the Detroit river.
23. I want to write a young adult series and have it published.
24. I would love to go to the Ellen DeGeneres show and meet Ellen!
25. While I am in L.A. at the Ellen show, I want to go on all the celebrity tours and see how many celebrities I can find!
26. I would like to recreate some of our funniest photos from when the kids were little and put them in a calendar.
27. We need to go to Hawaii.
28. I would like to find time to volunteer at a soup kitchen with my kids. I think volunteering is important.
29. Cooking classes…I really would like to take cooking classes and learn how to make different things that I don’t know how to make!
30. I would like to see the ball drop in person in New York City…but from the comfort of my hotel room…I couldn’t be in that huge crowd of people!
31. Take a cake decorating class…though my hips may not like that!
32. Tour the White House.
33. Put a lock on the bridge in Paris or London…apparently London has a bridge of locks too.
34. I’m saving all of my kids t-shirts from special events and I want to make them a quilt from all their t-shirts.
35. Visit all 50 states.
36. Plan Bella’s wedding at the castle in Northern Michigan.
37. Visit the Mall of America with Mr. DGoddess and the kids!
38. Plan a trip to Disney and Animal Kingdom.
39. I want to watch turtles hatch and make their trip to the ocean.
40. Go deep sea fishing.
41. Swim with dolphins. I still wish I did that when I went to Mexico.
42. Recreate my first date with my husband.
43. Get season tickets to the Lions.
44. Have a purple streak put in my hair.
45. Go zip lining in the Smokey Mountains and NOT chicken out this time.
46. Relax and be the kind of mom I always dreamed of being.
47. I would like to join an adult competitive swim team.
48. Own a vacation home. Preferably on a beach.
49. Visit the Harry Potter World at Universal Studios.
50. I would like to join a book club.
51. Read 500 books (I’ve read 107 so far).
52. Start canning food.
53. While I’m canning, I would also like to start stocking my freezer with meals that are ready for the oven or slow cooker.
54. Drive a 2-seater BMW one day.
55. Plan a summer vacation to the beach.
56. Take a cruise to nowhere.
57. Go back to Crater of Diamonds State Park.
58. Write a song and have someone famous sing it.
59. Fly in first class on a plane.
60. Go on a shopping spree in Chicago with Bella.
61. Take Zack on a vacation, just the two of us.
62. Go to the Consumer Electronic Show.
63. I really want to get laser hair removal. To not have to shave again would be amazing!
64. Learn how to paint a picture.
65. I would like to go to California and spend 3 weeks driving from place to place.
66. Win the lottery!
67. Walk 10,000+ steps a day!
68. Have a house with a chicken coop and eat fresh eggs daily!
69. Get family pictures done again…we’ve never officially had family pictures done with Bella in them (oops!).
70. I really really REALLY want to see the Northern Lights.
71. I would like a coffee table with a self-storing table so we can work on puzzles without having the cat throw pieces off.
72. Get a stone massage for the first time.
73. Take a second honeymoon to Bora Bora with Mr. DGoddess.
74. Pay off ALL of our debt, including our house.
75. Write and sell an e-book. Topic still to be determined.
76. I would like to learn to take better photos so I can justify buying a better camera.
77. Get a better camera!
78. Donate ALL of my clothes and buy a whole new wardrobe!
79. I would like to get a second cat.
80. Write an article to be published in a magazine.
81. Go on a whale watching trip.
82. Take a trip to New Orleans and do all the touristy stuff!
83. Learn sign language.
84. I really want to get a tattoo.
85. Take the kids to Norther Michigan to look for Petoskey stones.
86. I’ve always wanted to go white water rafting. I still kind of want to do that!
87. Send a message in a bottle with a way for someone to contact me if and when they find it!
88. Take the kids to a paint ball place where you use water balloons filled with paint instead of guns!
89. Actually complete a 1 photo a day project…maybe 2016 is my year!
90. Go in a shark tank. <–this terrifies me, but I would like to do it.
91. Visit New York City and stand at the Today Show with a flashy sign.
92. Go skydiving.
93. Sign Mr. DGoddess and I up for a racecar experience.
94. Spend every weekend this summer at the drive-in theater with the kids.
95. Swim in the Dead Sea.
96. Attend a Murder Mystery dinner!
97. Rent a limo and take the kids on a fun night!
98. Hold a monkey.
99. Take the kids to see Niagra Falls.
100. And finally…meet Channing Tatum.

There you go! 100 goals, dreams, etc. Now tell me…tell me just ONE goal or dream you have!