Bound for Beauty Summer List

Years ago, in a session with my awesome counselor, she told me to rip up my new year's resolution lists.  I had been keeping them for years.  I would start my year by making a long (really long) list of things I wanted to do/become.  Well, this lady is smart.  Perfectionists don't need lists, they need to LOWER expectations.  After years of lowering expectations and being more gentle with myself, I've decided to make a list of things that will reveal or create beauty to fight the perfectionism.  My regimine of blogging every day will bring more light into my fight against false beauty.  I'm ready to dig in: why is beauty so important to me?  What's the big deal?  Well, through my ONE BEAUTY BLOG A DAY list, I'll show you.
Here it is!  I'm a teacher, and there are exactly 68 days of summer break left.  Will it work out that I do one each day?  (Nope.)  I hope so!

1.       Visit shops in uptown Naperville

2.        Walk the Naperville Riverwalk

3.        Walk the Naperville Prairie Trail {where does it start?!}

4.        Exercise every other day

5.        Meet Evangeline Cadia

6.        Create my craft closet

7.        Re-design/Re-focus blog

8.        Help Sue design her wedding

9.        Buy plants for gardening

10.   Go to West Side Story

11.    Plant flower boxes

12.    Hang curtains in family room and guest bedroom

13.    Create an original turkey burger recipe

14.    Have Makayla over

15.   Bring treats to the neighbors

16.    Bake and ice a layer cake

17.   Have a Fourth of July Freedom Party

18.    Fix antique leaf desk and laquer it to put it outside

19.    Collect old wood chairs at garage sales and ad to al fresco dining area outside

20.    Go to Door County

21.    Have an al fresco soiree

22.    Write a poem

23.    Write a song with Trev

24.    Write a story

25.    Create frame montage in stairwell

26.    Create a chalkboard wall

27.    Visit Grandma Elaine

28.    Clean the porch windows

29.    Make collaborative list of recommended books

30.    Go to Sweet Maple Café

31.    Read A Thousand Splendid Suns out loud with husby

32.    Go to the beach

33.    Get a sassy haircut

34.   Make homemade birthday and anniversary cards

35.   Go to 7 Eleven on 7/11 for our anniversary

36.    Get training to become a better journalism teacher

37.    Create a substantial ipod list of songs I actually like

38.    Get a facial

39.    Go for a bike ride

40.   Plant a hydrangea bush

41.    Get a crazy good salad from Whole Foods

42.    Go to Ravinia

43.    Go to a taping of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me

44.   Go to Nadeau Furniture

45.   Learn to play the guitar

46.    Take a picnic

47.    Style Trevor’s Office

48.    Hang the huge sample Crate and Barrel print

49.    Enjoy our church’s Flame of Love conference

50.    Work a shift at Feed My Starving Children (FMSC)

51 through 68.  Teach Summer School (this counts for 18 days!)

I'm bound for beauty!  Happy Summer!