50 Before 50 Check In List

 

                Good morning! We still have a week left in this month, but I’m going to go ahead and share some updates from this month! I marked some things completely off my 50 Before 50 List and made progress on others! Let’s take a look, shall we?

Date day at Top Golf = done! I told you about this back when I shared the story of our anniversary trip! We had a gift card to Top Golf, so we decided to do that as part of our anniversary adventures. As I said then, going on a Monday morning in the winter proved to be quite the gift. It was so quiet, and we felt like we had the whole place to ourselves! For people who are terrible at golf, that’s important.

Recreate 5 simple dates we’ve done before = progress. We already did one earlier this year, and now we’ve done two more! While on our anniversary trip, we went to the Carmel Christkindlmarkt, which we visited initially back in 2018, and we went to the Cake Bake Shop, which we first tried several years ago!

Watch Gilmore Girls = progress. We are about halfway through season 3. We only started a little over a month ago, so I feel like we are making good progress! We are enjoying it, and it’s fun to have a feel-good show (rather than a crime show) to watch each night.

Thrift 50 things on my wish list instead of buying new = progress. I’ve made it to twelve! This month we visited a huge thrift store while on our anniversary trip, and we found some real treasures! One thing I purchased was a gift, so it’s been sent to its new home. Ryan and I found some melamine dishes and silverware to keep for when we have company. We never have enough of our regular set to use when we have company, and we grew tired of buying paper plates and plastic silverware. So now we have a hospitality stash! We found a pair of 5 pound hand weights. We’ve learned that’s a weight we sometimes BOTH want, and we only had one pair. We found a brand new tabletop ironing board. Full disclosure: I don’t iron often, but when I do, I always have to put a towel on the table. This one was still in the packaging and stores away in a closet! I also found a cute little sign I’m going to put in our laundry room after Christmas!

Do some sort of coffee adventure = done! As I shared a few days ago, we completed the Adams County Coffee Experience and had the best time with it. Such fun!

As I close out this year, I’ve officially marked off five of the 50 things on my list. I have another eleven in progress! 😊 I feel very good about this. Stay tuned for more updates!