32.

31 was a hard year.

While I was 31 I raised a small boy from 5 months to 17 months, I survived nursing, I survived teething and introducing solids, I survived insomnia, and infant x-rays, I survived my first 5k, 10k and Half-Marathon since becoming a mom - (and let me emphasis that for the Half, it really was just surviving, crossing the finish line with a shoe full of blood in my slowest time yet; but still crossing that finish line upright!)

While I was 31 I took 11 flights, stayed in dozens of hotels, I heard my son giggle, say "mama" and I saw him take his first steps, go head first down his first slide at the park and try to eat yogurt with his own spoon.  I hugged my brother, his wonderful wife and my nieces for the first time in two years, I cut my hair, regretted it and grew my hair.  I became a working mother, I lost and gained friends, I celebrated 11 years of marriage and I broke my baby toe.

It was a really wonderful year, but also a really, really hard year and tomorrow is my last day of being 31 - so to celebrate this new year, another new start, His new mercies -  comes a new list of "things to do".

So here is to a new year, with new challenges, new surprises, new experiences and new blog posts (actually about running I promise)...

32 things to do while I am 32

1.       Eat Thai food at an authentic Thai restaurant

2.       Make homemade dill pickles

3.        Do a Zumba class

4.        Read a book a month   

5.        Take my vitamins every day

6.        Watch the entire “Lost” series

7.        Learn to change a car tire

8.        Attend a concert

9.        Read Revelations

10.    Visit a new country

11.    Write an article that gets published

12.    Eat a French macaroon

13.    Visit Parliament

14.    Get my legs waxed

15.    Shoot a handgun

16.    Don’t read any celebrity gossip for the entire year

17.    Catch a large mouth bass

18.    Run/Walk 32km a month

19.    Send snail mail to a friend every month

20.    Volunteer

21.    Go to a MLB game

22.    Eat dinner at a restaurant alone

23.    Swim in all 5 of the Great Lakes

24.    Complete the “1000 gifts app”

25.    Blog every month

26.    It’s a surprise!!!

27.    Cook great tasting ribs

28.    Plant a tree

29.   Fly first class

30.    Watch “Legends of the Fall”

31.   Find a good lipstick color

32.   Visit Joanne