I'm doing 26 things
Sweet lovin' and sweet babies
4 years ago
That’s why I call him the lovebug.
Anne Petersen's Life List
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1. Attend a cooking program in France or Italy
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2. Work in a bakery
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3. Be fluent in Italian
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4. Have cooking parties
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5. Visit Tahiti
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6. try out 43 Things
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7. Charter a sailboat in the Mediteraenean
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8. Take a "one-year off" trip
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9. Remain close to my children
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10. lasik
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11. Be well educated about childrearing
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12. Learn to can fruits and vegetables
1 cheer47 people -
13. try knitting a cable pattern
2 cheers51 people -
14. Learn to knit
2 cheers3,391 people -
15. Live on the beach for 1 year
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16. Own a small farm and grow my own food
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17. Host a foreign exchange student
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18. learn how to use 43 Things
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19. Live in italy for two years
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20. Work in a refugee center
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21. Learn to play acoustic guitar (to entertain my children and myself)
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22. write a book
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23. Be a better friend
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24. Take children to artistic performances 4 times a year
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25. Attend the Slow Food Movement's University of the Science of Gastronomy
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26. See the Monarch Butterflies
2 cheers13 people
Recent entries
Perche?
4 years ago
Josh and I have lived overseas twice before (Prague, 1 year, Cambridge, England, 1 year) as well as a 3 month stint in Bologna, Italy. It’s amazing and fun but harder than you’d think. You get really lonely for friends and family and you can’t believe how convenient everything is in the States compared to where you are currently living (like getting cash, buying gum, paying your electric bill, finding socks, getting across town, etc.). But, that said, I’m ready to do it again. Why? I want my daughters to live in a foreign culture and learn that language when they are young. It’s incredibly life enriching, if hard. It provides you a unique perspective on your own country and culture and makes you appreciate many aspects of life we take for granted. You also become a citizen of the world and don’t see yourself as so different from people living in other countries. I would do a few things differently than what we did before. 1. I’d lease a car. You end up travelling with it on the weekends anyway and it’s great to drive to the suburbs to find a supermercato. Also, travelling by train with very young children is hard. They want to run around and won’t nap on the train. 2. I’d live in a smaller town but one that is within an hour drive to a large city like Florence or Rome. Bigger cities are great for culture and shopping but also polluted, with bad traffic, and harder to get to where you need to go. 3. I’d rent a place big enough to have people come and visit. You are generally dieing to see friends, speak your native language, and have a friend experience your foreign experience.
I’d like to form a group of women friends that get together to cook and bake. We’d meet in summer and make fruit pies and preserves, in fall and make soups and stocks, in the holiday season and make cookies and cakes, meet anytime and make compound butters, tamales, ravioli, etc. Any foods that are easier to make in quantity and freeze easily. It makes me nostalgic for my great-grandmother (at least how I imagine she cooked with her friends).
