This was posted the night before your birthday....happy day January 27th!
Becky, don't kill us. Mom and I were on the phone last night thinking of all the memories we could with you. This was so much fun for us. Mom's thought as well as mine was that we have had a good life, us 3. We may not have always gotten along, but there has never been a question of whether we loved each other. We have always loved each other, despite all else.
Becky, how do we love thee.....
Let us count the ways.......................
1. Memories of brutality towards one another. At the time our feuding caused many tears, bruises, blood and promises never to tell mom. But now, many years later, we laugh and laugh and laugh.
2. Sleeping in my room on Christmas Eve and going into mom and dad's room each hour on the hour starting at 3am to ask if we could go open presents yet. We learned how to play War, Slap Jack, Speed and Solitaire.
3. I secretly loved tormenting your friends when they called for you. I basically put great fear in their hearts that Becky's big sister was the meanest person on the earth. "demon Sister" as I proudly refer to myself now.....WAAAHHAAAAAA
4.Getting in arguments every morning in the bathroom because you could smell my breath as I put my mascara on. Who closes their mouth while they do that? I mean REALLY!
5. Watching you grow up and hanging out with friends and be popular and fun and happy. I always wished I was you.
6. Yes, again fighting, over our clothes. You would hoard my clothes in your room and then somehow change into them when I didn't see. When I would see, it was WAR!! Oh yeah, and when I started wearing glasses, they suddenly disappeared only to be found years later (when you moved out of the house) in the top of your closet.
7. When we were younger, and mom would be mad at one of us, the other one always felt bad. I remember finding you in a closet crying because you were worried mom was really going to kill me this time......hahahahahahahahaha
8. Painting our fingernails in mom and dads room on their brand new oak dresser. ( what were we, like 7 and 4 years old?) We spilled the nail polish, so naturally we wanted to clean it up and used polish remover, taking off the beautiful stain. Then trying to cover it up by painting nail polish over it that we thought matched, and coloring black lines with marker like the grain of the wood. Boy we got our booty's kicked for that one.
9. Mom says you were a brutally honest child. Standing in line at the grocery store, you had to have been only 3 or 4, there was a man scratching his nose in the line behind us and you looked up at him and said, "you like ta pick your nose?"
10. Knowing that you were the apple of Grandma Asay's eye. She adored you like no other of her grandchildren.
11. Having a good relationship with dad, and being able to talk to him when I never could. That was a quality I wish I had at the time. You and mom and dad just seemed to get each other. And you were never judgemental. Always just loving, accepting and forgiving.
12. You have always been GORGEOUS! Every where we go, guys are checking you out. Still true today. DON'T DENY IT!!!!
13. Raz Ma Taz. Woooo Doggy, in those super sequins outfits.
14. you sleeping with forks and knives. You were afraid of everything! That still makes me laugh! (one of my kids is like you.....)
15. Doing dishes. The joke at mom's house is if the dishes that are in the cupboard aren't very clean, even after being in the dishwasher we say...."Becky must have done the dishes!" hahahaahahahaha (Paul even does it sometimes...heheh)
16. Having a real, heart to heart, kind conversation not long before I left on my mission. We talked about boys and life and actually got along for a whole 20 minutes without one single mean expletive shared. MONUMENTAL!
17. Going on a ride in your boyfriends jeep just before the mish and feeling like maybe you and I didn't hate each other anymore. That day meant a lot to me and you probably don't even remember it.
18. Talking on the phone, while I was out in the mission field for over an hour...ok so maybe a little against the rules but the circumstances were dire.....and we told each other we loved each other.
19. Even though we were each others sworn enemy, if anyone messed with either one of us, the other would bear her fangs and claws and attack. Literally! NO ONE, and I MEAN NO ONE, MESSES WITH MY SISTER!
20. Welcoming me home from the mission (at the airport) accompanied by a total, and very tall, stranger who wanted to dip and kiss me just seconds after walking off the plane. (he didn't, lucky for him) I knew when I saw him that you were a goner. True Love. And I adored him from that minute too.
21. Watching Major Payne as my first movie home from the mish and having Dan commentate the whole thing, and then watch for my reaction.
22. "my name is Jeffrey, I'm 4 years old." I want you to say that for me the next time I see you. Mom and I laughed our really loud obnoxious laughs as we talked about that one.
23. Mom threatening you that if you came in at 4am again, she would lock you out. Well, you did, and she did and you slept in your car in the freezing cold and got sick from it.
24. Your lisp. That was the cutest thing in the whole world!
25. Riding in dad's Jimmy. Of course back then, we didn't have to wear seat belts so every time we went over a "dip" in the road, we would bounce on the seats and fly so high we would hit our head on the roof of the truck. Good times!
26. You have always been so kind to children, especially special needs children. You are very Christ-like in that way. And have taken that special talent/gift and quality and used it in your own family with your adorable kids.
27. Mom bonded with you instantly when you were born and never wanted to put you down.
28. Kitty Baby in the dryer.
29. You and me, dancing. Naked. In our windows. For the boys in the neighborhood. We were 3 and 6 years old.
30. Wearing wigs and tutu's and dancing to "Electric Horseman" in the family room.
31. Driving dad's cherry red Corvette, out on a joyride, and burning up the transmission. (and dad didn't know you had the car) You silently returned it to the garage of his condo, in first gear the whole time, put the keys back where they belonged and never even told him you had been there. He knew. Don't know how, but he did.
32. Going to concerts: Neil Diamond, Lionel Ritchie, Josh Groban, (many more) Shows: Les Mis, Nutcracker. Having so much fun together. You, me and mom.
33. Being our best friend, the most amazing mother, daughter, sister and example. We adore you, cherish you, and thank you for being there for us. We are thankful for the past, and wouldn't change a thing. Not even all the bruises and mean words. Those things have shaped us into who we are today and that is sisters through birth, spirit and love. We are grateful for who you are, and the amazing woman you have become. Thank you for 33 fabulous years and we look forward to many more years to come together with more laughs, tears and hopefully no blood.....hehehehe
Love you sis! Happy 33rd Birthday! YOU ARE THE BEST!
