Our Pre-Baby Bucket List

Now that I’m a married woman, people have been asking when we are planning to have children.  For as long as I can remember, I always knew that I’d have children before I turned 30, but I never had a specific age in mind.  Bryan and I spoke about the topic many times in the past and have come to the conclusion that when we’re ready to children we’ll know.

Over the past week, I’ve been reading a lot about newlywed life, putting our finances in order, changing my name, and other important things to do the first year of marriage.  I signed out of my TheKnot.com account and started a new account with TheNest.com.  While looking through articles, I found a blog post regarding a pre-baby bucket list and thought that it was a genius idea.  Of course you can’t really plan for the exact day that you’ll get pregnant, but it’s good to have some goals in mind before you bring a baby into the world.

I plan to use this blog post as a working document.  I plan to update this list frequently, and hopefully cross some items off as the months pass.  To make this convenient for my readers (and for myself), you can find this post by simply clicking on the graphic in the sidebar. That way, months from now you (and I) won’t have to click through pages of content in order to find this list.

Personal:
Purchase a DSLR camera
Switch to all organic cleaning supplies
*Discuss how we want to raise our child (what kind of religion, what type of school, etc.)

Finances:
*Lease a family car (preferably an Acura RDX)
Write a will
*Buy our first home
Pay off my credit card
Develop a significant nest egg

Travel:
Take our honeymoon
Take a cross country road trip
Take a vacation with friends
Go to Europe

*non negotiables