Since it's January, it felt appropriate to sit down together and re-visit our dream list. I love looking at our list every six months or so to see what we can focus on in the coming season. This current season-with writing books, adopting, applying for grad school, feels so ripe with dreams.
We thought we'd share our list today.
xo.
Laynie is the dreamer (and then the do-er.) Jonathan is the "think of it today, do it tomorrow" type. But somehow we make it work. Here are a few of the dreams we have, in no particular order. Some of them have been done, some we want to do again. Most of them are simple, some are a little crazy.
1. Swim together with dolphins [in the wild]
2. Own a house with a fireplace
3. Own a house with a porch [preferably at same time at aforementioned fireplace] and a nice yard
4. Be debt-free [including a house]
5. Be in Spain for “The” tomato fight
6. Be in Thailand for their lantern festival
7. Fly first class on an international flight
8. Paint [or draw or write?] our dream list on one full wall of our home
9. Have tea with a member of British royalty [Layne's dream]
10. Meet at least one of the Olson twins [Layne’s dream, not Jono’s]
11. **Adopt***
12. Write and publish multiple books
13. See a few of the books become movies.
14. Be actively involved in changing at least one un-just law
15. Wear a designer dress to something fancy [Layne's dream, not Jono's!]
16. Attend a legitimate ball [perhaps best place for aforementioned?]
17. Travel overseas with our kids [we want our kids to grow up with a wonderfully broad perspective of the world]
18. Make more and more environmentally-friendly conscious choices every year
19. Have a beautiful marriage [we already love it…but always working on making it better.]
20. Skydive
21. Skydive solo [Jonathan's dream, not Layne's]
22. Walk together on the Great Wall of China
23. Be a part-time speaker/teacher
24. Go wine tasting in the south of France
25. See Brantford continue to be beautiful
26. Grow old together
27. Ride in the cockpit of a plane
28. Act in a movie for which sister Catherine DPs
29. Visit the South Pole [we hear you can view it from a bubbled hottub. Yes, please.]
30. Make beautiful videos
31. Make a documentary (one of 2017's goals)
32. Travel Italy together
33. Have a study with walls full of books
34. Take the train across Canada
35. Stay at a bed & breakfast in Wales
36. Hike the walking trails through Ireland [Jonathan will probably drive to meet Layne at the next town's pub, let's be honest.]
37. Hike Machu Picchu
38. Live in the same corner of the world as Catherine
39. Get my Master’s [Layne]
40. Own all of Charles Dicken’s books in hardback
41. Meet our sponsor kid, Angel
42. Travel to Nepal
43. Ride in a hot air balloon
44. Have my country list be the same # or higher as my age [and visit 100 countries in our lifetime]
45. Have a photo studio
46. Give a downpayment for a house for a family in need
47. Swim in every ocean
48. Go kayaking together in Hawaii
49. Eat dinner with world leaders
50. Plant a vegetable garden
51. Visit all 50 states
52. Explore Yellowstone National Park
53. Visit the Salt Flats in Utah
54. Own a "house of rest" for people to come and re-set
55. Run an artist house-for artists to come create for varying lengths of time (*may be combined with #54)
56. Take the train across Canada.
57. Road trip to PEI
58. Take our kids each on a big trip when they graduate high school
59. Snowboard in Whistler again
60. Earn _____ with each of our businesses
61. See the Northern Lights