Summer bucket list revisited

After patting myself on the back for a fairly consistent blogging month in August, I decided to go AWOL in September. The short version recap looks like this:

1) lots of schoolwork
2) tons of work for PTA treasurer mom ( don't ever get me started on what a thankless job that position is!)
3) 11 year old birthday parties
4) regression of a certain 3 year old to pooping in his pants again
5) made plans to tear up my kitchen and put in granite countertops (yea!!), which has involved many hours of deliberating over color choice, sink options, kitchen faucet possibilities and a little study of travertine backsplashes. I can.not.wait. to kiss my ugly tile goodbye!
6) many soccer games and practices
7) a night of chaperoning a preteen lock in (oh. my.)
8) waiting on my nephew Cash to make his arrival to the world. Any day now....

But today is not September. It is October and boy do we have big plans for October. Tonight we are in Little Rock where my husband has a 2 day conference for work. We left our little guy at home because our true purpose for the trip is a surprise for our girls. You see, back in May, after we completed our little summer bucket list, Avery insisted that we had left something important off the list. The next day in ugly black permanent marker, she wrote across the bottom, "see TS in RL", which translates into " see Taylor Swift in real life.". Avery just adores Taylor Swift. She knows every word of her songs and will spend hours in her room singing and dancing to her music. At some point almost every week she tells me that she is going to be famous and play the guitar and live in L.A. like Taylor. She is passionate about her Taylor Swift. So when the opportunity came up for us to purchase tickets to the Little Rock show, we didn't hesitate. We have sat on this secret for 4 and 1/2 months and tomorrow night at dinner we can finally let the cat out of the bag. Although we have had fun keeping the secret, I can't wait to see Avery's face when her little bucketlist request comes true. We even passed all of Taylor's equipment trailers in the car on our way here and they never even noticed. This time tomorrow the girls will be within squealing distance from Taylor, Marty will be sporting hot pink ear plugs, and I will be crossing our final item off the bucket list. Woohoo!!