My Bucket List

There's so much buzz about bucket lists and leap lists these days. I've never made one. I guess now is as good a time as any to start, especially considering I'm having a baby in 6 days. Oh, and a hysterectomy immediately after the baby is out. Since I've heard the best way to usher in life sans sleep and a uterus is to make one of them, here I go. 


Cindy's Bucket List
1. Write blog.


Guess I can cross that off my list. Woohoo! I'm done!


It's been a goal of mine for years, maybe over a decade, to write. Blogging is apparently now the way to achieve that goal. I follow quite a few parenting blogs. Most are comedic views on parenthood, and I laugh myself silly reading them. Some are serious in nature and give great perspective on what's truly important in life. When I read those I reflect in silent prayer on how truly blessed I am.


So how did I come up with the title of this blog? The most basic answer is this: It's in the lyrics to my husband's and my song "All I Want is You" by U2. 


All the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you. 


"Cradle to grave" is what I had engraved on the inside of his wedding band. 


See, Dan and I go a long way back. Over half our lives back. We dated in high school, broke up, remained friends, married other people, divorced said other people, and here we are. Some call it a fairy tale. I'm not sure I'd go that far. Mainly because this is real life, and of course it isn't perfect. Not. Even. Close. At any given moment I want to suffocate him with a pillow. But he is my best friend. We are soulmates. I hit the lotto in the love department, and for that I am eternally grateful. 


Cradle to grave. 


The more literal meaning to the blog title is how cradles and graves have impacted my life. The birth of my first son (cradle) changed my life in an inexplicably profound way, more so than anything else, with a close second being the death of my father (grave). No two events have shaped more who I am.


Cradle to grave.


I think you're getting the picture.


I'm not entirely sure where this blog will take me. I think I'm pretty funny, and life with my husband and toddler can be a non-stop laugh fest. I'd like to share some of that with you in the hopes that you'll laugh, too, or at least realize you're not alone in these crazy worlds we call marriage and parenthood. But I'm sure my sensitive and serious sides will come out every once in a while in posts on topics about which I'm passionate.


For now I'm just glad I completed the first and only item on my bucket list! I should have written that list a while ago. Maybe I'll add to it in a later post. At least now I can get Dan off my back so he'll stop asking, "When are you going to write that blog?" Right now, honey. Right after I find a pillow... 


~Cin