3rd grade bucket list

just when i think i posses ALL of my childhood things after my parents have gotten tired of moving them...they find two more boxes for me.  one box was my barbie dining table with reversible seat cushions, my remote controlled barbie rolls-royce convertible, fisher price cooktop w/ pots and pans, and our much used fisher price cash register.

the other box was full of report cards, old projects and baby books.  it's funny how telling those items are of who we were to become later in life.  one of my favorites was a post-it we found stuck to a my sister's essay.  it gave instructions to my dad for where it was to be filed.  many, many years later, my dad and sister work together and she's still telling him where to file things.  

and then, as i paged through all those years of grades, homemade cards for my parents, and first essays, i found what appears to be my 3rd grade bucket list.  here it is:

1. finish elementary school - done
2. make lots of friends - can you ever have too many friends?
3. go to jr. high and then to high school at park high - went to jr. high...but not high school at park
4. graduate from high school - done
5. go to college and then get a good career - did the college thing...not sure yet about "career"
6. get married - that's still up to God
7. have a family - (see number 6)
8. make lots of money - now i say "enough to live on"
9. live in a big house and had a swimming pool - we had a pool when i was in jr. high and high school
10. own 2 rolls-royce convertibles - does my barbie one count?
11. be famous - just not INfamous
12. get great grades in school (from now to college) - i think i did pretty well
13. own a speed boat - my uncle had one.  that's where that came from
14. be successful - depends on the definition
15. meet the minnesota twins - not yet...RIP kirby pucket!
16. go to paris, france - someday
17. meet jerry seinfeld - saw him perform live
18. find the cure for diabetes and alzheimers disease - not yet
19. be a scientist - no, thank you.
20. be valedictorian in high school - nope.  my class was very competitive
21. meet the president - i have a picture of me and a cardboard cut-out of president ronald reagan
22. be tall - NOPE.
23. invent something to make people invisible - still working on this
24. be on TV - three times, actually
25. go to australia - amazingly...YES!

it's funny how some desires from childhood have changed and some haven't.  but either way, it is good to revisit old goals and aspirations when trying to figure out God's plan for your life.  what i seek at this point in my life may be a bit foggy right now.  but i know there are dreams deep down in my heart that started in childhood, waiting to reemerge and remind me who i am and how God has designed me.

but for now, i'm not sure that having TWO rolls-royce convertibles is necessary.  i'll just settle for my remote-controlled version.  it has great gas mileage and it's paid off.