Girl Mom Series: MacKensey, Macaroni And Mascara

I’m MacKensey, a working wife and mom to two spunky girls who spends my days keeping it real and trying to make everybody happy, including myself. I have good days and bad, successes and failures, but I always have my family. I love wine, Netflix, running and Target. I'm the voice behind Macaroni and Mascara, a blog about finding balance between being a good wife, a good mom and a good woman.

I'm not at all surprised that I was chosen to be a girl mama. I am the only child of a single mom so I was never around the males that much as a child.

While I always pictured myself having a boy and a girl, I don't really know if I would know what to do with a boy to be honest. And yes, I did cry when I found out that my second child was a girl (because I was so convinced she was a boy) but I wouldn't change her for the world.

I have big plans for these girls. I hope they become strong and independent and outspoken (they're both well on their way to being all of these things). There are also a lot of experiences I want to share with them as a mom.

I've started putting my bucket lists (yes I have more than one) down on paper in an effort to start making plans to do the things on the list. I started with my own personal bucket list and then sat down with my husband and created our couples bucket list.

Here's the start (since this is a ever changing document) of my mother-daughter bucket list:

• Get manis and pedis at a fancy salon
• Shop for prom dresses
• Get matching mother-daughter tattoos (when they're older obviously)
• Dance in the rain
• Take a road trip to a place we've never been
• Teach them how to put on makeup
• Secretly buy them the dress/jeans/shoes that dad doesn't want them to have
• Run a race together
• Make a quilt
• Attend the Nutcracker Ballet
• Eat pastries at a fancy cafe in Paris
• Make Great-Grandma Pulliam's cinnamon rolls
• Take them to their first concert
• Ride horses on the beach
• Play hookie from work and school to go shopping
• Read a book series together (let them choose)
• Shop for their wedding dresses
• Get all dressed up and go to a fancy tea party
• Watch 'Steele Magnolia'
• Make Great-Grandma Savage's chocolate cake
• Take a trip outside of the United States
• Create a family cookbook of all our favorite family recipes

What other items should be on our mother/daughter bucket list?

Thank you so much for sharing your mother/daughter bucket list with us today MacKensey. I love working on seasonal bucket lists with my girl, but this may be even better. You have definitely inspired me to make a list of our own.

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