Csy-Lux

Hi friends! I hope your Wednesday morning is off to a great start! Lately, I have been thinking about how fragile life really is. Last month as many of you know, my grandpa passed away. A piece of my heart is in heaven now ❤️ While I loved him with all my heart, I always felt sad my time spent with him was limited to my yearly visits to Mexico. I saw him maybe twice every year. When he passed, I realized that most that I knew about his life came from stories my dad and family told me over the years. I knew he loved his cattle from watching him over the years, he loved his horses and he loved working. It dawned on me at that moment that I didn’t know much of what he really was all his life? I never asked him what his favorite thing to do was. What were his hobbies? What was his passion in life? I never asked him if he accomplished all of his dreams. My mind has been heavy with him on my mind.  This also has had me thinking of my own time here on earth. Have I been working towards my own dreams? The dreams that will still be mine after my children have grown up and left the nest?

Have you heard that in the last few moments before your life is about to end, you see your life flash before your eyes? I know it is used as a saying but it is literally what it sounds like.  It is believed time stands still for a minute while you recall life events as a young self in your early parts of life to an older you in your later moments of your journey. The happy moments, the sad ones, the special times with your loved ones and those moments you never wanted to forget.

 What we remember could be different for everyone. Would you remember your mom carrying you as a baby to comfort you? What about your first fall at the playground or your first heartbreak? Would you remember when you met your forever love and what memories would you have of your children? What would you regret not doing?  Some of us chase dollars and corporate ladders all our life, while some of us are so busy with life and routines we forget about ourselves. As a mom, this is one of the most important reasons why I have kept a bucket list for a long time and why I encourage you to make one as well. Bucket lists are typically not to be completed in a small time period. Bucket lists in my opinion are meant take time. They are meant to be worked on throughout your life. What you write down can be silly, somewhat unrealistic to some, and wild if I may say but they are yours for life. Here are 5 reasons why I think every mom NEEDS a bucket list.

Give us hope and something to look forward to.

I feel like we should all have something to look forward to everyday even with all the beautiful chaos. You would be surprised how many don’t because they have lost that adventurous spark for life . Life is beautiful and when we accomplish something fun for OURSELVES it feels FREAKING AWESOME. I look forward to accomplishing every single one of my bucket list items every day.

Accomplish our adventures: It’s been proven that when we write something down, we get S*** done. So Let’s get it done!  

I don’t know about you, but I love my TO DO lists! I get stuff done every day when I write it down. Interestingly, when I don’t write it down there is not much urgency or excitement to get it done. The same can happen with writing out your bucket list and you seeing it on paper! You will achieve it. How cool would it be to get your bucket list items completed?

It reminds us to continue to live our dreams while we are young

A lot of people say they will get to do all the things they want when their kids are grown up and they are retired. Life isn’t a lifetime guarantee. What if we don’t make it to retirement? We all want to and plan on living that long but why not want to work on your adventures now?! When we are older, we can continue to work on our dreams to feel young! Looking at our lists can be a reminder that a new day is not promised. 

It will make us happy

Having a bucket list gives you motivation and inspiration! We are choosing with pride what experiences we want to have in our lifetime. Imagine the self-esteem you will have once you have crossed something off your bucket list! You completed that. You completed and worked towards something bigger than yourself, and you deserve all the happiness you are feeling. You are a BADASS!

We stay actively present with our lives

Life can get so busy in between work and raising our kids. It is hard not to feel like you are sitting on the sideline watching time go by. When we are working on small steps towards crossing stuff off our bucket list whether it be saving for that trip, or practicing to hike that mountain, or running those miles, we are committing to stay true to ourselves. That can also encourage positivity in other aspects of life! 

Make one!

Here is my life bucket List. Working on some of the things on this list help me not lose my old myself.  The person who 30 or 40 years will still have something fun to keep her wild adventurous side going. It gives me a little of an adrenaline rush if I might say so. This list has small things, silly things, things that are weird and things that mean a lot, but they all truly light up a spark in me. While some people join all their different goals into one list, you absolutely don’t have to! This list is separate from my own personal family goals, financial, and long-term goals. This list is for ME.

Run The New York Marathon

Run the LA Marathon

Run the Chicago Marathon

Build our family vacation home in Mexico

Become a knowledgeable cigar afficionado

Family cross country trip

Line dance regularly

Grow my youtube channel

Watch a sunrise and sunset in Montana

Attend the Kentucky derby in a beautiful hat and dress- Bet on a horse

Organize a BIG family reunion.

Learn to read the rosary

Polar Bear plunge in Alaska

Start a yearly Charity fundraiser event

Be able to give back big financially to a charity that I choose every year

Hopefully, this post inspires you to make a bucket list for yourself and your BIG adventurous dreams .Let me know what one thing that would be on your bucket list is in the comments!

-Csy ❤️