If you are a regular reader you will know just how much I LOVE a bucket list. Its something Josh and I have always done since right back at the start of our relationship. We used to sit down together at the end of December and make a big list of all the things we wanted to do, places we wanted to visit and goals we wanted to achieve. I just love the feeling of ticking things off throughout the year! Since becoming parents our yearly bucket lists have changed somewhat but it’s still something I really love doing.
Over the last couple of years rather than writing a yearly list, I have opted for seasonal ones instead. But with our new arrival due in the Summer I thought I’d compile an annual one for 2017. Once I started writing it all down I realised there was A LOT that I’d like to do this year. There are of course some things we hope to do before baby boy’s arrival in June. Although there is still plenty on the list that I’d love to do once he’s joined us too, it’s maybe a little ambitious but we’ll see how we get on!
2017 Bucket List
Take Bella for her first ever trip to the cinema
Feed the ducks at Bodiam Castle
Go for a winters walk & a hot chocolate in Rye
Make time for a date night every single month this year! Either out or just at home
Enjoy a family bike ride at Bewl Water
Get a new car
Explore three cities we have never been to before
Visit Alice & Amelia in Dorset
Visit family in Norfolk (hopefully a couple of times!)
Go for afternoon tea with my best friend
Have one last child free night away before the new baby comes!
Have a family day out at the Zoo
Bake cinnamon buns
Do the Bluebell walk on the Sussex Downs
Celebrate our 4th wedding anniversary
Visit Knole Park to see the beautiful deer
Sign Bella up for swimming lessons
Watch Bella in her first ballet show
Host an Easter brunch
Take Bella to Paultons Park
Create a proper play area in the garden
Visit Sheffield park during each season to feed the ducks
Have a picnic in the walled garden at Scotney Castle
Enjoy lots of pool days at the in laws
Camp in the back garden
Host another big Summer BBQ
Throw my Dad a 60th birthday party
Visit the lavender fields
Pick our own fruit at Maynards again
Make strawberry cupcakes & strawberry crumble with said fruit!
Spent lots of evenings at the beach, eating chips and splashing in the sea!
Go bowling
Grow our own vegetables in the garden
Take Bella to play crazy golf on the seafront
Start running again (Probably after babies arrival)
Participate in a colour run
Make my own ice cream
Eat half man, half burger on the beach with friends
Explore our village more
Take Bella swimming in the sea
Make homemade fudge
Host a raclette night with our friends
Visit the pumpkin patch
Carve pumpkins
Host a Halloween tea party
Go to a fireworks display
Celebrate Bella’s fourth & my twenty fourth birthdays
Take Bella ice skating
Make salt dough Christmas decorations
Go to see the Christmas lights
Bake gingerbread
Go to a Christmas market
Spend our first Christmas as a family of FOUR at the In Laws
Throw a New Years Eve party (Josh’s idea!!)
Harriet XO
10 Comments
Kimberley | Oh Just My Little Blog
Some lovely ideas! There’s a fudge recipe over on my blog too if you need one 😉 A colour run is on my bucket list too! x
January 20, 2017 at 9:20 amVikki Holness
This is such a great idea….i think i might have to draw up a bucket list for the boys and i for 2017. (p.s. You must live pretty close to me because Bewl Water and Bodiam Castle are in my area!) xx
January 20, 2017 at 10:59 amRebecca | AAUBlog
I’ve been to a few of the places that you’ve mentioned and they’re lovely – always so many ducks at Bodium. I did a colour run at Hever Castle a couple of years ago and it was so fun x
January 20, 2017 at 4:35 pmBear and Cardigan
There are some great ideas here. I would love to visit Rye. I really fancy a ghost walk around there, although thats probably not suitable for Belle Lol
January 20, 2017 at 10:17 pmJenna Richards
Love this list and the variety of things you have one it. Sounds like you have a very busy and exciting year ahead of you. 🙂
January 21, 2017 at 9:13 pmKerry norris
A fab list. I want to come and visit Alice and Amelia in Dorset with you. Xx
January 22, 2017 at 12:09 pmCandace
Some lovely idea here. Used to love get the kids involved in planning thugs for us to do for the year. Very different story now they are teenagers as you can image lol
January 23, 2017 at 9:27 amJodie
You must live close to me. We’ve visited Bewl Water once last year and it was amazing!
January 25, 2017 at 9:39 amHarriet
I am East Sussex so not too far from you Jodie! X
January 25, 2017 at 9:46 amBlogger Mummy Lauren
What a great list, everything you want to do is so lovely and you’ll have a wonderful year if you manage to tick them all of!
February 4, 2017 at 11:50 pm