It took us nearly ten years to get from no wordnet for Polish to the largest wordnet ever built. We started small but quickly learned to dream big. Now we are about to release plWordNet 3.0-emo – complete with sentiment and emotions annotated – and a domestic version of PrincetonWordNet, larger thanWordNet 3.1 by nearly ten thousand newly added words. The paper retraces the road we travelled and talks a little about the future.