My (late) Maternity Leave Bucket List
I may be half way through my maternity leave (*cries*) but I thought it would be fun to share my maternity leave bucket list with you and see how much I’ve (not) done.
- Lean to crochet
- Crochet throws for each sofa, blankets for both children and a bedspread for us.
- Visit some places, especially in the North West which I have never been to. Namely, Tatton Park, Dunham Massey, Gulliver’s World, Chatsworth, the Emma Bridgewater factory shop, Trentham Gardens and Norton Priory.
- Go to the beach as a family.
- Have a picnic on the farm.
- Bake every week.
- Write a book (hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha).
- Make bunting.
- Sew a peg bag.
- Clean skirting boards (rock and roll).
- Sort out office into proper office with special areas and storage for farm stuff, blogging and crafting.
- Wash and straighten hair every day and wear heels for the nursery run.
- Loose four stone.
- Make another fairy garden (extreme farm weather has wrecked the first).
- Plant vegetables (again).
- Plan educational yet fun activities for every afternoon.
- Craft with Boo at least once a week and allow her to paint with real paints (not water colours) once a month.
- Apply fake tan regularly.
- Read more books.
So I have six months left. I’d better get cracking.
These all sound amazing! You sound very crafty. I said I would bake loads when off and I did none!! Awful. Straightening hair everyday would be awesome…I’m lucky if it’s once a week!! xx #maternitymondays
Good luck with your list, even if you only manage one its one more thing than I ever did on my maternity leave haha. Must be more productive this time around! Xx
Great post, I am noting down a few of these ideas – would love to learn crochet!
I said that I’d bake every week on my last mat leave, pah, never happened and less likely this time round!! Good luck with your bucket list 😀
Helen – #maternitymondays
Wow that is quite an ambitious list! Hope you manage to get some of those ticked off 🙂
Lovely list of things to achieve but you are certainly ambitious! I learnt to crochet after Monkey was born and man those blankets take some effort i am telling you! Lots of lovely ideas, good luck with them hon! #MaternityMondays
Wear heels for the nursery run? That’s a bit above and beyond the call of duty for me 🙂 I’d love to go to Chatsworth though and read more books. Maturity leave goes so quickly. I’m already over a month into mine and I haven’t though about a bucket list. Better get on that!! #MaternityMondays
Since Little 3 has been born I have done very little, I keep meaning to start baking and get crafty with the girls but there is so much else to do and a little person to feed, one day we will do these things again after all he is only 8 weeks old. #maternitymondays
Very ambitious and if you follow through on even five I will be very jealous. I am returning to work after being off on maternity for seven months and I wouldn’t come close to one thing on that list. Good luck!
Ooh I love this! It’s given me inspiration to write my own. I wanted to do so many things on maternity leave the first time and just literally never got round to them. At least if I write it down and share it with people it might kick me up the backside to do it. #maternitymondays x