Ahh, the busy life of a mom. It’s easy to fall into a mindset of just going through the motions. It’s easy to go through the days without really seeing or caring or experiencing. It’s easy to just get to the next day without focusing on the moments it takes to get there.
As moms, how do we get out of this funk? How do we make the most of the time we have with our kids? One way to do that is to take action and come up with a bucket list. I started with a Mother-Daughter Bucket List. Today, I tackled the same list, but for our boys!
Moms, I want to encourage you to also create a bucket list with your son with their specific needs, wants and desires in mind. Fill your days together with plans, with dreams, and with adventure! Find things you both love and are passionate about, then chase recklessly after those dreams! To help get you started, here are my ideas (You can click on the image below to get a printable version!):
Mother Son Bucket List
- Go rock climbing (real or facility).
- Plan a fishing trip.
- Wake him up in the middle of the night and go to an all-night diner for breakfast.
- Plant a tree or grow vegetables in the backyard.
- Make a model airplane.
- Visit a history museum.
- Paint his room.
- Build a birdhouse.
- Take an activity lesson together (surfing, skiing).
- Teach him how to be a gentleman and how to treat a woman.
- Take a spontaneous weekend road trip.
- Go canoeing.
- Go camping in a tent in the backyard—or a state park.
- Create a paper mache volcano and blow it up.
- Do a Bible study together.
- Go on a missions trip.
- Run a 5k together.
- Pick out, buy, and train a puppy.
- Buy him his first suit.
- Visit a college in every city you visit together.
- Go to one professional game for every sport you can think of.
- Look through old black and white photos of your relatives.
- Serve at a soup kitchen or shelter together.
- Stay in a cabin on a lake for a week.
- Babysit someone’s children for a weekend.
- Go horseback riding.
- Go snorkeling in the ocean.
- Go snow skiing/snowboarding.
- Go water skiing/wakeboarding.
- Fly a kite.
- Try archery.
- Go zip lining.
- Read a classic together: The Lord of the Rings, Tom Sawyer, etc.
- Make your own pizza from scratch.
- Create your own barbecue specialty on the grill.
- Create your own kitchen sink cookie recipe.
- Start a savings or investment account.
- Watch the entire Star Wars collection.
- Teach him to iron and sew on buttons.
- Take a trip to where his favorite movie was filmed.
- Take your father and your son somewhere special.
- Do something your son has always wanted to do.
- Visit a planetarium.
- Visit local, state, or national historical sites.
- Visit older family members and ask about their younger years.
- Build a giant toothpick sculpture.
- Go [ice]-skating together.
- Go roller-skating.
- Build a gingerbread house.
- Build a kite.
- Make food-colored snowmen with a spray bottle.
- Test drive or rent your dream car (that you have no intention of buying).
This list is just a start. What have I missed? Tell me below and I will add it on!
