A Summer Bucket List

Because adults should HAGS!!!!!!, too.

It’s the last day of sixth grade. You’re in head-to-toe Abercrombie, signing yearbook after yearbook with “HAGS!!!!!!” Once released, you run home, neighbor-friend in tow, to draft your respective summer bucket lists.

This list was it: the official start to summer, as decreed in alternating Crayola markers and taped to your closet door.

Not mine (found via Pinterest), but this was the vibe

Actually crossing items off on the list was never the point, though. The joy was in the creation. The anticipation of what was to come and the thrill of making HAGS happen.

I know we’ve been declaring it summer since the calendar flipped to June but, astrologically speaking, summer starts with Friday’s solstice, which left me time to establish my summer ‘25 list. And that I did.

Even without friendship bracelets and tie-dye as hot-ticket items, I found that creating it accomplished what it once had, each bullet a reminder to take joy into my own hands and make the most of the months ahead.

My 2025 Summer Bucket List:

• Red Hook Tavern Burger

• Hit double-digits on my Butterfield Market froyo consumption

  

  Easy, I think I'm at #7

• Take the ferry

• S’mores

• Make a beaded wrap necklace

• Recreate 10 recipes from Wishbone Kitchen cookbook (Been making the Tomato Butter Baked Cod on repeat recently)

• Have a Milano Market Park Picnic

• Met Cloisters

• Start (and finish) a new needlepoint project

• Skinny dip

• Bake a galette with berries from the farmers market

  

  My mom’s birthday galette last summer

• Try Ha’s Snack Bar

• Dinner at Astoria Seafood

• Pie à la mode

  

  Not the same but I made these NYT Blueberry Pie Bars for bookclub and they banged

• Sip on a Honey Deuce at the US Open (overpriced but not overrated)

• Queens Night Market

• Make the ultimate roadtrip playlist (vibing to this one right now)

• Go out to lunch with my grandma

• Sip on a frozen marg

• Kayak

  

  Michigan summer loading...

• Rockaway Beach day (with a cooler full of PB&Js)

• Read six books

• Pontoon ride

• Make THIS on the grill

• Pick lupins and thimbleberries

  

  On our bike ride home from the beach

• Go line-dancing

• Play pickleball in my new pink gingham set (that was only $40!!)

• Go to The Frick

• Sunrise at the beach

• Make it a point to enjoy as many sunsets as possible

• Spoon into the sundae at Bernie’s

• See some jazz

• Wear many a matching sets

Just a girl off to lay in the park

That’s all for now. I highly recommend making your own if you haven’t just yet (even if just jotted down in your Notes app).

And a special shoutout to a List Person VIP, my dad, this Father’s Day. Love you to the moon and back. Xx