I have a little less than two months left on my current 101 in 1001 list! If you’re new to the concept, I’m on my fourth round of sharing 101 things I want to do in 1001 days (or about 2.75 years) and keep track of my progress here. I share these goals both as a way for you all to get to know me and what I’m working on and as a way to hold myself accountable for making as many of them happen as possible!
2.75 years winds up being a great amount of time to set goals for, because it falls well between a daily to do list and a lifelong bucket list. Even if you can’t predict exactly what your life will look like nearly three years from now — a goal on my current list was to have our second baby, and six months ago we had our third! — you can imagine a lot of the overarching categories that will be important to you and then brainstorm projects you’d like to accomplish or habits you’d like to develop within each category. I wrote my current list in July 2020 and looking back it’s crazy to remember that we were still without childcare when Teddy was ten months old, putting the finishing touches on our kitchen renovation and mudroom addition, my parents had only just moved in with us, and we hadn’t yet torn up our backyard to build our new pool. Our day-to-day life and environment have completely transformed in these 2.75 years (perhaps more so than any other 2.75 years of my life!) and it’s great fun to have these 101 in 1001 lists as a way to document the passage of time and the things that mattered most to me along the way.
Anyway! I have slowly begun working on ideas for what will be my fifth 101 in 1001 list starting later this spring, but in the mean time I thought I’d share a few of the things I’ve crossed off my current list in recent months. Please send me an email if you decide to write your own; I’d love to see and add a link at the end of my list!
The goals I crossed off my 101 in 1001 list in January and February
23. Publish a Fairfield County guide. This was such a labor of love and after putting it off for literally years, I’m so happy to have this live! As with my Nantucket guide, I really poured my heart and soul into finding and sharing all my favorite restaurants, small businesses, and activities where we live and I love hearing that it’s been helpful to some of you!
29. Celebrate our third, fourth, and fifth wedding anniversaries. I am certain when I first wrote this list that I wasn’t envisioning I’d be pregnant on our third anniversary, have a four-month-old on our fourth anniversary, and have a three-day-old on our fifth anniversary, so these very low key celebrations looked a lot different than, say, our one year anniversary trip to Australia! (Though come to think of it, I was newly pregnant with Teddy on that trip too!) I do hope one day we’ll get back to more exciting trips just the two of us, but this year we opted for a belated staycation in the city with Tucker in tow (or maybe we should count our family trip to Italy as our five year celebration as that was a much bigger adventure!).
63. Wallpaper our dining room. I think this was technically the last couple days of December, but I’m counting it here because it wasn’t something I ever envisioned my mom and I tackling ourselves! You can see the finished wallpaper here and a little video of us hanging it here.
14. Going out of order because #14 was to beat my past 101 in 1001 record of 80 goals completed and the items above got me to a total of 83 goals down and 18 to go! I definitely won’t complete all remaining 18 in the next two months, but it’s fun to think that despite all the ways in which our lives have changed in the past three years, this was somehow still the list where I achieved the highest percentage of goals I’d set for myself (which is perhaps more a testament to setting goals realistic for this stage of our lives than any uptick in productivity on my part, but a win is a win!).
