Mother | Daughter Senior Year Bucket List

Making the most of their last year at home

  1. Have a coffee/milkshake/ice cream/dessert date with your senior and add items with them to this bucket list of things you like to do with them. 
  2. Pray with your senior about their future
  3. Tell them how proud you are of them. Remember: you are speaking to an almost adult. Why do you love your child's other parent (even if you aren't still married)? What makes a good marriage? Tell them how scared and excited you were when you first met them and brought them home. Describe what kind of spouse and then parent you hope they will be. What are your hopes and dreams for their life? Have a hard time putting these thoughts into words? Fill out the form below! I'd love to work with you on how to get all of your precious thoughts out so that your child can fully understand the depths of your love for them! This is included in all my senior sessions!
  4. Teach them how to cook (you teach or take a class with them!)
  5. Start a family cookbook of the recipes you work through as teaching them to cook
  6. Develop a family signature recipe
  7. Teach them how to budget & bank
  8. Teach them how to wash clothes
  9. Buy or give them something beautiful or precious
  10. Mother/daughter date
  11. Talk about failure, disappointment, and loss. Show them how to recover from mistakes or difficulties. 
  12. Learn basic car maintenance and how to change a tire together
  13. Get pedicures and manicures done together. Then have your hair and makeup done. Follow up with #13. 
  14. Have pictures taken with your senior (click to view sessions). Include Grandma, if possible, to make it even more special.
  15. Get physical! Do something that challenges your fitness level: 5k, 10k, half marathon, hiking, or even a beginner level fitness class. 
  16. Spend an entire day baking or cooking
  17. Do something that challenges your fears. Be each other's supportive encourager! You might have to do two separate activities.
  18. Learn high society manners and etiquette together.
  19. See a Broadway play
  20. Write out a list that makes a good husband and hide it with her luggage as she goes to college. Include a letter of why you gave this to her. Or, if you think she'll be more receptive, give it to her in person and talk about the list. 
  21. Take a mother/daughter trip abroad
  22. Do a Bible study together
  23. Pay it forward. It might be taking dinner to another family, paying for the people behind you in the drive-thru or grocery store, or spending a Saturday cleaning up a local playground or park. Do something that your family values.
  24. Spend a day baking
  25. Movie marathon: Disney, classics, Christmas, or whatever makes you both excited!
  26. Spend a day cooking. Take the meals to neighbors, new moms, the elderly, or the homebound.
  27. Go shopping for their dorm
  28. Take them to breakfast and watch the sunrise
  29. Go shopping and pick out an outfit for each other (maybe let her have more input on your outfit than you do for hers if she is picky)
  30. Have a spa weekend
  31. Weekend big city trip! Or if you already live in a big city, be a tourist in your own town and do something in your city that neither of you have done. 
  32. Do something that she has always wanted to do but you haven't
  33. Do a double mother/daughter day! Take Grandma out for girls' night.
  34. Organize photos/scrapbook/photos/memory box for graduation parties
  35. Keep a journal. Include stuff from when they were little. Give it to them at graduation. Start the second edition after graduation and give it to them at their wedding. Add pictures! It is never too late to start. You can include this in their memory box.
  36. Coffee and dessert date after a weeknight dinner
  37. Hug them 
  38. Encourage them to dream big, chase their dreams, to apply for opportunities that are out of their comfort zone  
  39. Senior Portraits
 

Let's check off one of those items! Contact me for a complimentary planning appointment for senior portraits.

Have a hard time putting all your thoughts into words? Fill out the form below! I'd love to work with you on how to get all of your precious thoughts out so that your child can fully understand the depths of your love for them! Let's make the most of your child's senior year.