Becky's Best Moments 2012

Ziplining Becky

Even Becky loves a good game of Candy Land

Becky played dress up with Barbie clothes the night after her football accident. She felt much better after her make-over.

She is a little mischevious

Reading and hanging out with a Christmas Classic

Nerf War!!!





Becky's injury

Becky lost her power and couldn't fly out the window. Injured and on bed rest.

The sparkle treatment from her Elf friends.

Poor Becky had a little situation the afternoon after she painted the kids' noses. She was hanging out under the tree and the boys were doing their normal football game in the living room (which is funny that it's what they are doing right now). One of them threw the ball, the other dove for it and Becky literally flew across the dining room floor and hit the opposite wall. Part of the magic with Becky is that if she is touched she will lose her power. Well, I picked her up and placed her back under the tree but that night while we were all asleep she went to fly out the kitchen window and guess what? She couldn't because the boys had plowed her over and all her powers were gone. So she hit the window, richicheted off and was severely injured. She ended up spending the day in a Barbie bed bandaged and nursing her wounds. I can assure you the boys were more gentle and didn't touch her again.
The next night her Elf friends from the North Pole left a note saying there was something in the mail box for her to restore her powers (a bag of glitter). It worked and that night she was back to her shenanigans.

Becky Continued

Sleeping beauty has no idea his elf has been busy.



Guess who got into the paint?!



Choose

I've had to make some tough choices. What is best for my kids? What is best for me? What is best for the man I've loved almost my entire life? Things had come to a point in my marriage that made me realize that it was best if we no longer lived together. This is by far the hardest decision I've ever made. It's really easy to tell other people what choices they need to make. What appears to be, from the outside looking in, an easy decision to make. Another person's problems always appear black and white. Our own problems have layers, shades of gray, dark places and very light places.  I started asking myself questions like-Is love enough? Am I enough? Will things ever change? Will time heal broken hearts?  Then the more practical questions-How will I survive alone? How will I fall asleep without him next to me? How will I handle the whispers and rumors? How will my children handle living with both of us...just not together? 

It's now been almost 3 months. Some of my questions have been answered. Others will one day be answered. Until then, I'll survive, take care of my kids and keep falling asleep with my sweet 5 year old chatter box every night.

Becky the Elf

We introduced a new family member last Christmas season. My mom showed up one day after shopping with a box that included a book and a little felt doll. Seemed like Elf on a Shelf had become all the rage so Nana decided to get us our very own.  The story is basically that the elf goes back to the North Pole every night to report back to Santa. I'm not sure that story modified my kid's behavior but we sure did have some fun with her. Every morning the kids would get up excited to find out what she did while they were sleeping. Here are some of here favorite things to do...



Marshmellow Bathing



Q-tip snowflakes

Reindeer confusion

Stocking confusion (I think she was embarrassed)



Toilet Wrapping