Becky's birthday was perfection sandwiched between snowmageddon prep and the stomach bug, which hit Esther at 2am today. We are not recovering and I have piles of laundry.
It is currently raining ice outside while my two year old watches bluey on repeat next to a bucket. We've gone through all the towels and most of the blankets twice since 2am. Brian started out the night half asleep because he picked up his mother at the airport at 11am on Saterday (the 23) and thus got less rest when we were awoken at 2am... Both of us were awake from 2-4 as Esther needed a lot of help. One adult to care for her and the other one to clean up messes/fetch towels.
One parent slept from 4-7 and the other parent slept from 10:30-1:30. I"ll let you guess which one based on my spelling and coherency. We are also expecting 6-24 inches of snow and I am praying the electricity stays on and that we can make it out of our house by Wednesday because I have places to go and being cooped up for too long makes me depressed. Welcome to my first world problems.
I forgot to buy chocolate too. Woe knows no bounds.
OH, but Becky's birthday was glorious. We had all her friends and everything just flowed and jived perfectly. I listened to all the moms talk while trying to take pictures and savor the moments. She is divine and I love her. Happy eight years, Rebekah! I love you.
You can't tell from the pictures how wonderful it was. I am not a good photographer anymore--so much out of practice. But it was! We got a cake, chocolate because it's Becky's favorite. I made a raw cheese plate, sourdough crackers, einkorn chocolate chip cookies and a fruit platter. We sang happy birthday and opened presents. It was just perfect. Becky picked La Carreta as her Birthday out-to-eat and we all enjoyed Mexican junk food, which hopefully did not contribute to the problem the following morning.
It was just a wholesome, good day celebrating my middle child!
I hired one of my good friends Kimmy to come do face paint and it was perfection! Really, a dream birthday for my Becky. She positively radiated happiness all day.
What a beautiful day. And she gets, hopefully, some great snow to play in this weekend as a late birthday surprise, as long as the stomach bug doesn't decide to take us out one by one over the next few days...
I dosed everyone with activated charcoal. And prayers. Lots of prayers.
And that was Becky's 8th birthday, I'll never forget it and I'm sure she won't either.
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