In no particular order......
Things to do before I'm 40
*Spend a few days in Glastonbury with DS
*Have a colour consultation with Colour Me Beautiful
*Lose several stones
*Have a (henna) tattoo
*Find my soulmate. Without having to go out to pubs etc to do so. Hopefully he will just see me working in my garden, come up and say hi 
*Learn the whole Tai Chi set
*Raise money for MacMillan Cancer Support, in memory of my lovely Auntie and one of my dearest friends
*Take a rowing boat out on a lake again
*Get a job
*Complete the Open University Introduction to Humanities course and get the certificate 
To be added to at a later date, if I think of anything else.....
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Really good idea, Honey. If we write them down it's much more likely our goals or otherwise will get done, we've made it concrete, or "real" to ourselves that much more. Good luck, your list looks fun and rewarding!
On the fundraising bit--good fundraisers that I know of are:
ethnic dinners with entertainment, presuming you have someone or a group of people who can donate the food and entertainment of course (our church has done both a Swiss-German dinner with an accordionist and a Phillipino dinner with native dancers afterwards)
raffles
silent auctions
"angels"--you have a lot of angels made up, either paper mache, wooden, what have you, and give those to people who make a $5 or more donation. You could make these anything of course, not just angels. You could do cute cows, sheep, bunnies, dolls, whatever.
Things I'd like to do before I'm 40 (this is only six years away, Holy Cow!)
*conquer the eating disorder
*have two more kids (haven't told DH about this one yet, somewhere along the line I changed my mind from wanting two kids to wanting three, what's come over me?!)
*have a "real" family vacation that's just for us, preferably at a beach
*make a blanket for Project Linus, an afghan for Warm Up America, and a nicer hat for ChemoCaps than the one I made last year (a trainwreck).
*get me one of the TNH tshirts
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This is neat and I will do
This is neat and I will do it later when I have to mull it over. Would love to hear others!
Coming Soon
40 is only a bit over a year away for me, so I'd better get cracking!
Run a full marathon in under 5 hours.
Get a tatoo of the Chinese symbol for peace on my hip.
Figure out a way to make a new, positive relationship with DS15.75
Read the first four Little House books out loud to DD5.
Figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life. (Do I go back to teaching in some form? What form? Do I continue being at home/the office and learn how to slow down and be in the moment? Do I go back to school? ...)
Go visit my sisters in Chicago and Wisconsin. Never been to either one's house!
Get a mammogram.
Finally (after 14 years!) finish the landscaping at my house.
Do something special with just DS14. The poor kids seems to always be caught in between, and he's just so good natured and mellow. I don't want him to feel overlooked because of all the attention his high-maintenece siblings require.
Convince DH to get rid of the piano his grandfather restored, but no longer works, and get one I can play. I really miss it.
Learn how to say no. And mean it. And stick to it. And let the "If you don't do it, no one will" guilt go.
There! That should keep me busy.
-Jo
Now we are 40........
I am so busy these days, just check in now and then to see how you all are but rarely post. Today I am off work and thought I'd pop in to say hello and noticed this thread which I had totally forgotten!
Well I am 40 now, heading towards 41 in fact. So...have I achieved all my aims?? Of course not!!
I managed a few though -
*I completed the Open University course, which helped me find direction.
*I got a job in February 2007, working in a school. Bit odd for a homeschooler I know!
*I lost quite a bit of weight last year, but I have since put it back on
Still working on that one, then 
*I am still intending to go back to t'ai chi, as soon as I find a local class
*And....drumroll please......I met a lovely man
I've been seeing him a few months and all is going extremely well 
What else is there to tell you? Umm...
DS is now 17!! Some of you here must remember when we started our homeschooling journey - six years ago, can you believe it? He is at college now, studying English Literature, Psychology, Sociology and Film Studies and doing very well
He has a girlfriend he has been with for over a year too, and lots of friends. I often have a houseful of teenagers and rarely know how many to expect for dinner!
I have recently joined a historical (or in my case, possibly hysterical lol) reenactment group. I bought lots of material last week which I have to magically transform into Anglo-Saxon kit - underdress, overdress, cloak and wimple - by Yule, in time for the banquet
What have I let myself in for? 
Honey.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon
- The Dalai Llama
Thanks so much for updating, Honey!
You've come so far in the years you've been here!! I canNOT believe your son is 17. That's just...guh. I'm getting old!
Lynn Siprelle, Editor
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