Anti "Baby Bucket List"

Hmmm.... I came across this blog post today: "Baby Bucket List" by Kristen @ Just Thinking

I never thought of having a baby bucket list, or as I call it a cradle list, being synonymous to having a baby equals death. Did you?

I guess I should clarify things a bit. I'm not saying my life will be over when I finally get pregnant. I am very much looking forward to having children. I want to wait to make sure I will be the best parent possible to them. Of course I would like to have a baby now, but it would be so selfish to bring someone into this world that I couldn't properly care for.

The travel topic. I have some traveling on my cradle list, but don't mistake this as things that I will never do again once I have children. I was actually going to write a post about all of the fun family vacations I want to go on one we have a family. Should I just put it in here now? Na, I'll put it in it's own post when I have more time to make a more quality post. All this to say, the traveling on my cradle list are things that wouldn't be as suited to children. Personally, I don't want my children to see all of the mostly naked go-go dancers and drunk people in Las Vegas. But that's just me. I would love to bring my kds somewhere tropical, but I have Bahamas or Mexico on my cradle list because I want to go there in the next 5 years, which will be pre TTC date for me. Plus, I want it to be relaxing and romantic. But it's definitely a trip I would go on again once the kids are older.

Anyways. I feel like my cradle list is a list to keep me grounded. It is a list to remind me to get my shit together before I get knocked up. It is a list to remind me to enjoy this childless time instead of just sitting around being bitter and jealous. It is a list that says hey if you're going to wait to have kids you might as well do these fun things that will be more difficult once you have kids.

Kind of a side note... I recently joined the nest, and by recently I mean yesterday. IDK if I will be using that much or not though. So on the nest there is this article, 8 Things You Can't Do Once You Have a Baby. The comments shocked me. They were mostly like why is the nest so down on having kids, blah, blah, blah, having kids isn't horrible. I didn't see those things in the article though. I thought it was a nice article to remind people to enjoy the time before you have kids because a baby changes your life in more ways than imaginable. I feel like pretty much everything was true except for the staying up late and watching late night shows when they air.

But that's just my two cents. What do you think about the baby bucket list thing?

Pool Party!!!

This past weekend my hubs and I had a small pool* party. It was so much fun. Mild temperatures. Sexy bikini. Sunny, barely a cloud in the sky. Yummy snacks. Friends. Alcohol. Perfect! Except for the hour I spent praying to the porcelain gods if you know what I mean. I drank way too much! Not to mention the mysterious cut hubs discovered his temple later that day. Oh well, it was a good time. All things I probably won't be doing often when I have kids.

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This Google image photo will have to due. Not one picture was snapped during the pool party. Always a wise move when alcohol is involved. I wish I would've taken a picture of the blowup loungers, half empty glass, and bottles scattered all of the deck before I cleaned them up.

Next summer I want to have a really big pool party with everyone I know. I want to go all out with a tropical/tiki/luau theme. I think it's fun to be in the pool when the sun is on it. Hubs wants to have a night time party with tons of tiki torches and pool lights, but all I can think about are the misqitoes! Either would be fun. We'll see if it happens :)


Oh and for the record, I'm sure summer and pool parties with children can be fun too.

*It's an above ground pool that came with the house. I'm not made of money people!

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Baby Bucket List

Tonight I've been poking around on the web looking at other blogger's cradle lists. I've learned that many of them call them "baby bucket lists" or "pre-baby bucket lists." Good to know! I've noticed a lot of them have something about learning yoga... hmmm...

Here are links to some of the lists I've been looking at tonight:
Carlie's Baby Bucket List   (I like her writing style, which I lack)
Newlyweds Next Door Baby Bucket List (I like the percent complete at the bottom, that it is broken down into categories, and the disclaimer)
Baby Making Machine's Baby Bucket List (I like how this one is broken down into categories too)
Karen from Oy!Chicago's Cradle List (Buying a bigger bed is a really good one!)

I haven't looked at cradle list's on forums yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

Have you found any cradle lists that you really like? Or would you share a link to your cradle list?