Committed Housewife: Celebrating St. Patrick's Day

Books Read in 2010

JANUARY

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
by Rebecca Miller

Goodnight Nobody
by Jennifer Weiner

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J.K. Rowling

High on Arrival
by Mackenzie Phillips

The Help
by Kathryn Stockett

FEBRUARY

Official Book Club Selection
by Kathy Griffin

Open
by Andre Agassi

Lucky
by Alice Sebold

MARCH

Dead Until Dark
by Charlaine Harris

Dead in Dallas
by Charlaine Harris

Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
by Chelsea Handler

Going Rogue
by Sarah Palin

APRIL

Club Dead
by Charlaine Harris

Dead to the World
by Charlaine Harris

Dead as a Doornail
by Charlaine Harris

Definitely Dead
by Charlaine Harris

All Together Dead
by Charlaine Harris

From Dead to Worse
by Charlaine Harris

MAY

Dead and Gone
by Charlaine Harris

Dead in the Family
by Charlaine Harris

A Touch of Dead
by Charlaine Harris

The Mistress' Daughter
by A.M. Holmes

Ana's Story
by Jenna Bush

I thought it would be fun to do a little Irish-inspired menu for St. Patrick's Day on Wednesday.

Irish Soda Bread

Irish Chicken and Dumplings

I'll let you know how it goes.

Le Bucket List

Create recipe books for my future daughters-in-law (or sons-in-law).
Memorize my favorite poem. (Cambridge Elegy by Sharon Olds.)
Learn to carve a chicken.
Make will or trust, whatever.
Sit in a hotspring in somewhere where hot springs are.
Have a great cake recipe.
Visit Vancouver and see what all the fuss is about.
Attend one high school reunion. (How 'bout the 50th?)
Go on an African safari.
Rent a beach house in Indiana for the summer.
Learn how to have fabulous eyebrows.
Be CPR certified.
Commission artist to paint a family portrait.
Create a large piece of artwork and hang it in my home.
Be a barista.
Visit Paris.
Go to Greece.
Attend an Olympics.
Vacation with my husband in the Florida Keys. (BONUS: Buy awesome artwork - not a print, an original.)
Climb the Statue of Liberty with my children.
Go to a Broadway show on Broadway.
Visit Chester, England again. (BONUS: Find it just as wonderful as I remember.)
Own a home outright.
Consider law school.
Get an MFA in Creative Writing.
Inventory rubber stamp collection.
Own beautiful china cabinet. Fill it with beautiful things.
Attend an AWP Conference.
Find or create perfect pizza crust recipe.
Ditto for pizza sauce.
Donate blood.
Renew vows with my husband.
Buy birdfeeder and log species. Upload info to Project Feederwatch.
Learn to can.
Have a garden like my grandma and grandpa used to have.
Visit the Roloff Farms in Oregon. (BONUS: Buy pumpkin and display it outside my home.)
Take a trip through California's wine country.
Develop an appreciation for classical music and be able to recognize compositions and composers by ear.
Own a fabulous apron. (Bonus: Pot holders that match fabulous apron.)
Visit Fall Creek Falls and my great grandma's burial site.
Eat at Sombrero in San Diego . (BONUS: Have the song "Josie" stuck in my head the whole time I'm there.)
One year, bake a new cookie recipe each week.
Write novel.
Publish novel.
Learn to play the guitar.
Take a Disney cruise.
Make a quilt out of children's baby clothes (one for each of them).
Take a stained glass class. CHECK!
Buy an SLR camera.
Take photography class to learn how to use aforementioned SLR camera.
Go to Disney World for a week and stay at one their resorts in the park!
Complete scrapbook of 2.0's first year.
Complete scrapbook of 1.0's first year.
Go ski-diving ... just once to prove that it's not my sort of thing.

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