Summer Bucket List: The Final Grade

Summer has officially come to an end.  Today I decided to take a look back at our Summer Bucket List.  I printed it out and sat down with my red pen to mark off all the items we completed this summer.  I was certain that we did great!  I knew we didn’t accomplish everything on the list, and I knew we wouldn’t even going into the summer.  The purpose was to guide our summer around family oriented activities.

So, as I went through the list line by line, I was surprised by some of the things I had on the list.  I didn’t remember adding some of these items and wondered if I was drunk when I put this list together.  Considering I was at work on a random Wednesday morning when I comprised this list, I could rule out the drunk thing.  I’m going to say I was being creative and a little over-ambitious with this quest.

We did accomplish quite a few things on the 69 item bucket list.  The number of items on the list was not done on purpose but did lead to a little chuckle today when I was counting them up.  Also, had me second guess the whole drunk thing.

With my red pen in hand, I started checking off all the fun stuff we did all summer.  I counted it all up and we scored a 32!  Out of 69.  Quick math, our final score on our Summer Bucket List is 46%.

We failed…miserably!

I don’t know where we went wrong.  I felt like we did so much this summer.  We definitely did things we hadn’t before.  Looking back, I probably should have used a rubric to grade our performance.  Clearly, some things were worth more points than others.  Does going on a walk really deserve as many points as jumping off a cliff at Fugitive Beach?  No.  That one should have been worth 1000 points!

Anyhoo,  I’ve selected 19 of the unchecked items that I still think we can do this fall.  Actually, I think some of them are better suited for the fall.  I don’t I want to be under the pressure of a bucket list, so I’m just going to keep them in my back pocket and surprise the kids when the time allows.

This Saturday may be the only Saturday all fall that we don’t have any plans….yet.  I’m hesitant to let anyone know that our day is wide open lest they obligate me to do something.  I’m also on a very, very tight budget through next week (because I want more spending money for my weekend in New Orleans…don’t judge).  So, I might have to turn to one or more of these activities to keep us occupied. 

With a few more weeks tacked on, we might just be able to pull our grade up to passing.