Every year I make a list for my birthday whether it be a to do list or inspirational list. It is something I started on my 30th birthday and I want to continue it for as long as I can, even if the themes end up being repetitive. So here is my list of 34 things I hope to accomplish this year:
- Visit my family and spend quality time with them
- Visit a new place in Tibet
- Make a beautiful momo and take a photo of it
- Take our first family photo together
- Take a family photo together (all siblings and kids if possible)
- Swim in the ocean
- Go for a boat ride
- Spend time with my grandparents
- Take a family photo – Extended family
- Eat good pizza – pepperoni? pineapple and buffalo chicken?
- Have cha at Tenzin’s family’s house
- Visit Boston to see friends
- Visit NYC to see friends
- Visit hometown friends
- Plan a welcome back/thank you party
- Take our first international trip as a family
- Plan a wedding in Tibet
- Complete 50% of my 2020 Resolutions
- Document cultural practices around child rearing
- Learn lullabies in English and Tibetan
- Payback my parents slowly
- Make a Roth IRA & Contribute to it monthly
- Build a sizeable savings in China
- Create our own holiday traditions for Christmas & Losar
- Eat Indian Buffet in Queens
- Drink a spiced chai latte at Ashlawn Farm Coffee in OS
- Spend quality time with my niece, Gabrielle! Something artsy? crafty? fun? I need an idea!
- Have a holiday dinner during summer 2020
- Take mom & pops out for a meal
- Roast marshmallows & eat s’mores
- Learn to ride a horse
- Improve my Tibetan – from high -beginner to intermediate
- Choose the baby’s citizenship! (Still undecided for now)
- Learn more about bilingual parenting