Dear Mom,
Surprise! Bet you didn’t expect to see this on the blog today. You have been my biggest supporter since … forever. You check my blog faithfully, you are first in line to buy anything I produce (even though you totally know I’m hooking you up) and you are the first to be excited about anything I’m doing.
So today it felt completely appropriate to send you a big cyber hug since I’m not with you in person on your birthday. Plus, I kinda thought it might be fun to have a whole bunch of really kind strangers (and maybe a few familiar friends) add their birthday wishes. Go ahead, guys. Wish my mom a happy birthday in the comments!
Mom, thank you over and over for everything you do and everything you are. Thank you for always having a homemade dinner on the table when we were growing up. Thank you for serving your family, community, and church so faithfully. Thank you for choosing Dad – who also serves diligently and tirelessly. You are both such remarkable people and I will forever be grateful for the blessing of having you as my parents.
Thank you for being supportive every step of the way as I have struggled and triumphed. Thank you for never making me feel pressured in any big life decision I’ve made. I have always felt like you and Dad have completely trusted me. That’s one of the greatest gifts any parent can give a child.
I love your work ethic. You were never interested in paid work but you have worked just as hard as anyone in a high-power position. When I think of you, I think of volunteerism. I think of you holding hands with Dad. I think of you wearing that apron, and baking those awesome cookies, and delivering hundreds and hundreds of cookies to the nursing home, the city council meetings, the family gatherings.
Mom, I just made your famous Chili & Coleslaw Dogs the other day. Delish. I love making stuff that you taught me how to make — like Chicken Noodle Casserole and Deviled Eggs and sugar toast. Because every time I do, it reminds me of you. I think of you when I wear an apron or walk laps around the neighborhood or hear “We Built This City on Rock and Roll”. I totally laugh to myself just picturing you conducting that music from the driver’s seat in your Dodge Caravan when it would come on the radio.
Thank you for every sacrifice you’ve made on my behalf. Thank you for loving me through every tantrum (even though I don’t believe that I could possibly throw fits!), every mood swing (what!?) and anything I ever did that caused you worry or concern or heartache.
I love you so much, Mom. Happy Birthday!
Becky
Wow!! I read this with tears in my eyes! Happy Birthday to Becky’s Mom! And what a gift to read today, and every day that comes in your life from today on. As a child, this is the message my mother needs to hear, and as a parent, this is what I pray I receive some day from my daughter, but it can only be so if I live the life I am meant to live, and you have apparently being doing that every day! Thank you both for reminding me what really matters every day!
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mum
I hope you have a wonderful Birthday & get to eat lots of cake!!!
Hi, Vicky from Belgium here. Sounds like your mom is almost as awesome as mine
A very happy birthday, Becky’s Mum! Your smile is brilliant, I hope you smile loads today!
It is so wonderful to celebrate our mother’s birthdays. My mom just recently turned 83 and I have enjoyed her birthdays even more every year. Happy Birthday Becky’s mom. Have the bestest birthday ever!
Happy Birthday to Becky’s amazing mom! May you have not only a wonderful day, but a blessed year.
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom!!!! Thank you so much for who you are and who you helped Becky to be. She has truly brought more gratitude and love into my life through her spirit and Project Life. You must be as proud of her as she is of you!
Hi Becky’s mum I hope you have had a wonderful blessed birthday, cyber hugs from our family in Australia and through the power of the internet and Becky’s scrap books, we feel we know you a little bit.
Best birthday wishes from Switzerland. You must be a great mother to have raised such an amazing daughter! Hope you have a wonderful day and a year full of health, joy and good fortune.
What a great Mom…I hope to be just like that!! Happy Birthday to “Becky’s Mom”!!! Hope you enjoy every minute!!
What every parent would love to hear from their child, I hope I do some day! Beautiful sentiments Becky, Happy Birthday to Becky’s Mom! Have a fantastic day!
Happy Birthday, Becky’s Mom! I hope you have a wonderful, special day!
happy happy happy day to you, Becky’s mom!
happy birthday, Becky’s Mom! And did you notice, like a good daughter, she never mentioned your age! Ha! Becky’s birthday tribute reminds me of the poem “When you thought I wasn’t looking”. Seems like Becky noticed quite a bit about you “when you thought she wasn’t looking”. Hope you have a wonderful birthday!
happy birthday Becky’s mom. what a lovely post! have a wonderful day.
Becky is a very lucky lady!!! Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a wonderful day you deserve it!!!
Wishing Becky’s mom a Happy Birthday. May God bless you and keep you all through the year. May He shine down upon you. Have a wonderful day.
Awwww. Happy Birthday Becky’s mom!
Happy birthday. I hope you have a blessed year.
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom from Brisbane! Sounds like you are a lucky family… to have each other to support, love and care about each other! I’m sure you’ll be smiling when you see your lovely daughter’s post celebrating you and your birthday. Have a wonderful day. hugs Elizabeth
Hope you have a Super Great birthday!
Awww, this is such a SWEET SWEEET POST! Happy Birthday Becky’s mom!!! And I’ll sing it to you Stevie Wonder Style – Happy Birth Day To Ya, Happy Birth Day To Ya, Happy Birthdaaaaaayyyyy!!! LOL!
I pray you have a very blessed day today, lots of laughter and hugs! You sound like a woman after God’s own heart! Have a wonderful day!!!!!
Hugs,
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~Lakeisha
Happy Birthday to Becky’s Mom! I hope you have a woderful day. Becky’s post also brought tears to my eyes. You are both truly blessed to have each other!
Happy Birthday from Ohio! I hope this is a great year for you! Have some cake for me.
Wow, what a beautiful relationship you have. My hope is for my daughter and I to share such a relationship. She is nine at the moment and so far we are going great. Thanks for sharing Becky. And HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Becky’s Mum. We love her for making you.
May your day, and year to come, be filled with blessings! Happy Birthday! I believe Becky has already given you your “gift” with this precious tribute of love and honor. What more could a mom ask for? Enjoy your special day!
Happy Birthday Becky’s mom! You are one special lady to have raised such a great daughter. Thank you for your gift to all of us.
Happy Birthday! I hope you will have a blessed special day! And a big thank you for supporting one of my journaling product when I first released it. Your kind message has motivated me to create more inspirational products to uplift others!
Happy Birthday wishes from Las Vegas!
HaPpY BiRtHdAy….. to Becky’s Mom….. HaPpY BiRtHdAy…… to Becky’s Mom……. HaPpY
BiRtHdAy…………….. Dear Sweet Adorable Beautiful MOM……. HaPpY BiRtHdAy……. TO YOU !!
I am also blessed with a wonderful mom…. SO…. Becky’s Mom, have a wonderful day!
Happy Birthday, Becky’s Mom. Have a wonderful birthday. I can tell that Becky is SO proud to have you as her mom.
What a treasure! Happy Birthday and many blessings to you!
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom! Hope you have a fabulous day, looks like its off to a pretty good start!
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom. Hope you have the best day!!!!!
Happy Birthday to Becky’s Mom!
Happy Birthday Mrs. Allgaier. Hope you have a blessed day!
Happy birthday!
Becky,
God has blessed you and your Mom with such an awesome relationship. I think this was my most favorite blog, it brought tears to my eyes – it brought back memories of how much I cherish the time I’ve spent with my Mom – - who just passed away in June. To see the joy that you have both have, although written, is a beautiful thing.
Thanks for sharing!!
happy, happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday, Becky’s Mom! You sound like an amazing woman and Becky is so lucky to have such a wonderful mother.
ENJOY YOUR DAY!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom! Have a wonderfully Blessed Day. Such a sweet birthday wish from your daughter. You must be one terrific mom to have raised such a thoughtful daughter, it says a lot about you. Congratulations and may you enjoy many more!
Happy Birthday, Becky’s Mom! That was such a beautifully written letter, Becky. Thanks for sharing it with all of us.
Bhea
Marietta, GA
Happy Birthday to your mom, Becky. Best wishes for a wonderful year for both of you!
Awesome post! Happy birthday Mom! Thank you for raising Becky the way you did—we love that you share her with us. Have a wonderful day.
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom!! I hope your day is FABULOUS!!!
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom!!
Shanna J.
Moore, OK
Happy Bday MOM
Happy Birthday to Becky’s mom! Hope you have a most marvelous day. I am hungry just reading about your cooking…My mom is a great cook too!
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom!!!!!! Have an awesome day and an even better year!
Happy Birthday to you! Hope you enjoy your special day! Wishing you many more Happy Birthdays to come!
Happy Birthday, Becky’s Mom!!! I’ve been a fan of Becky’s from back in the early CK and first “purple book” days and watched her document with love her relationships with her fabulous family. You did an awesome job raising such great kids. Have a GREAT birthday!
Cathy
Leesburg, VA
P.S. We LOVE your chocolate chip cookie recipe, too!
Happy Birthday, Becky’s Mom!!
You are as much of an inspiration of a Mom as Becky is to me.
I admire your love of family and only hope I can follow your lead.
Enjoy your day and celebrate all month long!
Happy Birthday!
A very happy birthday to you Becky’s mom! Thanks for giving us Becky! The world just wouldn’t be the same otherwise
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Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom. You sound like an amazing woman who loved her family very much. I hope that my children will look back on their childhood with such loving thoughts as Becky did! Enjoy your special day!
Chris Dukes/Michigan
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mum!! And thank you for sharing all of your marvellous needlepoint works of art and info, and recipes with us through Becky’s blog….hmmm, did you ever think you should start your own blog!!
Happy birthday Becky’s mom!
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom!!!! Have real blessed day today and always!!!!!
Happy Birthday!!! As you already know, your daughter is one amazing woman who is such an inspiration to SOOOO many people. Only a truly remarkable woman could create a daughter like that! Thank you for the imprint you have made on the world, not only through yourself, but through the children you have raised.
Have a wonderful birthday, “Becky’s Mom”! I felt like Becky was describing MY mom too…we are VERY lucky to have you in Becky’s life. You are a part of what she is today…thank you SO much for that.
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom. We are all so lucky to have Becky in our lives and it is because of YOU…
Happy Birthday to you!!!!!!
Happy Birthday to you…What a wonderful tribute to you. We all feel as though we know you and we admire you so much. You have raised an incredible daughter that many of us feel is our friend even though we have never met her….You and your precious daughter inspire me to be a better person everyday. Hope your birthday is everything you want it to be. God Bless you.
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!! Hope your day is FABULOUS!!!!! God Bless You!
happy Birthday !! just want you to know that your chocolate chip cookies are my families favorite AND all my friends too.
Happy Birthday to your mom Becky. Treasure her whyile you have her.
Happy Birthday Mrs Higgins! You truly are a sweet person and a great mom from all that Becky tells us. I met you at CKC in Valley Forge years ago and you were gushing about Becky and your grandson that was with you. I loved it.
Good people deserve to be celebrated —- consider yourself truly appreciated today
Birthday Blessings to a truly inspiring woman! Not only have you blessed us all with the awesome gift of your children, you also raised them in such a way that they are sharing their gifts and your gifts with the rest of us! So many wise tidbits about living life with purpose, love and in God’s light. Do take a few minutes today and celebrate YOU; you are AWESOME!!! God Loves You and So Do I.
Happy birthday, Becky’s Mom! May you have a blessed day!
Happy Birthday Becky’s mom!! Definitely gonna check out your recipes! Hope your day is as wonderful as you! Peace and blessings!!
Happy Birthday, Becky’s Mom!! I hope that you have a day filled with love and laughter, and all of the joy you’ve brought your family through the years! {{Hugs!}}
Happy birthday, Becky’s mom! Your daughter is so blessed to have a mother who is so supportive and loving as you. We all thank you for sharing her with us- you raised an amazing girl! May your special day be filled with fabulous things… smiles and sunshine, laughter and lots of surprises! God’s richest blessings to you!
Happy Birthday, Becky’s mom! I hope you have a wonderful day. Thank you for raising such a great, inspiring daughter… you must be a really tremendous person and mother.
Happy, Happy Birthday, Becky’s Mom! I hope you have the fabulous day you deserve!
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom!!! Stay awesome!
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom. You did a great job raising a wonderful daughter. She is a gift to all of us and we thank you for supporting her dreams. Much happiness on your special day and the year ahead.
Happy Birthday Sister Allgaier! You have been a mother to a lot of us as well. So many great memories of you in my youth:) I hope your day is a special one! I love you
Cassie
A BIG happy birthday, Becky’s Mom!!! Just reading all the wonderful things about you makes me want to give you a big hug and ask you to be my surrogate mom!
Wishing you a wonderful day with your family and friends and all that makes you the happiest!
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom! Thank you for being such a great mom & grandma. We need more of these in the world. Also, thank you for your cross-stitching. I also love to cross-stich, but had given it up since having children, but seeing how your art inspired your daughter to have her own art inspires me to keep up my craft. Thank you for being you.
awww such a sweet post for your mom!
Happy Birthday “Becky’s Mom”! You sound like an amazing mom and woman! 
Happy Birthday Becky’s mom!!!! As a mom, I can say I bet your mom is balling! What a blessing to hear/read those words from your child! I can only pray that one day my children will be able to say those kind things about me!!!
Happy Birthday, Becky’s Mom!!! You have an amazing daughter and sound like a spectacular mom!!!
Lori
Ohio
Happy Birthday! Thank you for sharing you wonderful daughter with us. Happiness and blessings to you.
Kelly
Portland, Oregon
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Becky’s Mom!!! Praying that God will bless you with a great day to enjoy family & friends!! Thanks also for your support of Becky & for her inspiration to all of us!
Happy Birthday wishes to you! You’re obviously a wonderful person as your inspiration and light comes through in Becky’s blog and in everything she does; and volunteering is a great way to pay service. I hope all your wishes come true, and that you have a wonderful time celebrating your birthday.
Happy Birthday, wishing U a FABULOUS day!!
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom! I have been a fan of Becky’s work for years and have gotten to “know you” through her published pages and blog posts. She is remarkable and it’s obvious that the apple didn’t fall far from the tree! Blessings to you on your birthday!
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom! You must be one incredible woman to have raised such an inspiring, well rounded, & kind daughter. I hope your day is just as sweet as Becky is!
Happy Birthday, Becky’s sweet mama!! I hope you have a wonderful day. What a blessing you are to so many people.
wishing an amazing happy birthday to becky’s mother =)
Thanks for being a MODEL MOMMA! May our lives be a refection of the God we serve! I am inspired and motivated to be that kind of mother that uplifts and encourages as you have done. Blessings to you! Happy Birthday!
Aren’t moms wonderful? Happy Birthday Becky’s mom! Hope you have a fabulous day.
Happy Birthday! I hope you have a great day. Hugs from South Carolina.
Happy Birthday!! Hope you have a wonderful day!!
Happy Birhtday Becky’s Mom!!
Happy Birthday Becky’s mom. Thanks for doing such a great job raising her. She is an inspiration.
Happy Birthday Mrs. “Becky’s Mom”! I have loved getting to “know” your daughter thru the pages of CK and now thru her blog. You have an amazing family who clearly love and honor each other…we honor you today on your birthday! God bless you with His strength and wisdom.
Happy Birthday! I see the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. Your daughter is amazing and I can see why. I wish you many more wonderful birthdays filled with love. God Bless you and your family.
Happy Birthday! May you be blessed with many more! You have raised an incredible daughter and family! Becky is a great inspiration to me and many of my friends. May God bless you and your family.
Happy Birthday, Becky’s Mom. Your daughter is an amazing inspiration and now it is obvious where it comes from. Enjoy your day and your daughter.
Happy birthday, Becky’s mom! I actually have a photo of you in my scrapbook from CKU-Nashville in 2004! I was waiting in line to meet Becky, and I recognized you (as you took photos of others with Becky)…I thought, how cool is that? So I took your picture.
I hope you have a happy birthday!
Happy birthday!! I met you at a couple of CKU’s and I know you’re a lovely person!
Happy Birthday Mrs. Alguieri (sorry if I spelled your last name incorrectly. I know you must be a great mom as today is my mom’s birthday too (as well as one of my brothers)!!! Enjoy your day!
Mary B.
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Algaier! Love your daughter!
Wishing you the happiest of birthdays, Becky’s mom! I know that you must be awfully proud to have such a wonderful daughter, and we thank you for sharing her with us. Hoping your day, and your year, is a wonderful one to remember.
Happy Birthday! I know what a special woman you must be–you have raised such a wonderful and inspirational daughter!
A very happy birthday to you!!! Hope you have a fabulous day and a great year! And echoing other responses…you have raised a beautiful family
Without YOU… there would be NO BECKY… and no “MOM’S CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES” both things that I am forever grateful for… So I hope that YOU have a FABULOUS Birthday and that you will enjoy reading all of these lovely comments…
Love-Jessie
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom! My birthday was this past Sunday. October birthday girls are very lucky. Have a fab.u.lous day!
Happy Birthday to you!! Hope it is a great one
Happy Birthday!! What a beautiful post!!
Happy, Happy Birthday! What a gift you have given to all of us through your daughter. I pray that my children learn half as much from me as yours have learned from you. Thank You!
Warmly,
Jammie W.
Nebraska
Happy Birthday Mrs. Allgaier (sp?). I met you and your husband in 2006 on the cruise ship in the Western Caribbean when Becky was teaching. You have a lovely daughter which is not at all surprising considering the wonderful family she comes from. Enjoy your day. God Bless!
Happy Birthday Mrs. Algaier!!! Wishing you the best … enjoy your special day!
Happy Birthday!! Thank you for raising Becky so nicely! We love her – she is a testament to your love and devotion to your family!
Happiest birthday greetings from St. Louis. I think it’s wonderful that you have a daughter so kind and thoughtful. You must have been a wonderful example for her as she grew up. You are lucky to have one another. What I wouldn’t give to spend one more minute with my dear sweet mom. Enjoy your day, enjoy every minute!
Happy Birthday Mrs. Algaier! I hope you have a wonderful day!
Happy Birthday! Hope you have a wonderful day!
Happy Birthday BECKY’s MOM !!!!!! I aspire to be just like you and Becky everyday!
just so full of life, service, sharing and
positivity not to mention the CREATIVITY that comes from you !!!!
Hats off to you ma’am and Becky.
All the best. <3
Onnea Onnea sisar Algaier!
terveisia temppelista.
Hope you will have great birthday
Happy birthday !!! Have a wonderful day !!!
Happy Birthday,
Becky’s wonderful mother! Thank you for sharing your daughter with us!
Hope you have a wonderful birthday just basking in those great comments your daughter wrote about you! I am sure you are an inspiration to all whom you come in contact!
Happy Birthday Becky’s mom. Thanks for helping to raise such a wonderful daughter. We love her and you for that.
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom.
You must be a fantastic lady to have raised a terrific person like Becky!
Wishing you sunlight in your heart and happiness in your soul!
Happy Birthday Becky’s mom! May God continue to bless you and your family in many ways for many years!
Ahh! Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom! Thank you for raising a talented and beautiful daughter.
My mom’s birthday is tomorrow, I could have written this exact post about her (except I would insert different recipes). Maybe I’ll just send her over here and call it good
Happy Birthday (Becky’s mom)!!! I hope this message finds you in a very happy place in your life. I too have made those wonderful chocolate chip cookies and other wonderful recipes Becky has shared with us and I thank you for making me look as if I know how to cook. I love reading about you and your devoted husband. Are you still living overseas–was it Sweden or Norway or somewhere like that for a mission trip? Happiest of birthdays to you and many more to come!!!
<3 <3 <3
Happy birthday, Becky’s mom! May God continue to bless you in the coming year.
Happy, happy birthday to you Becky’s mom. You raised a lovely daughter (and talented too!). I’m sure you must be so proud of Becky.
Becky, that was a beautiful tribute to your mom. It brought tears to my eyes. My mom passed away 5 years ago and I miss her every day. Thanks for sharing your mom with us on her birthday.
Oh, and I almost left work early today because I went online and found out my Project Life kit (Amber) was delivered today!! Can’t wait to open it tonight.
Hugs,
Leslie
Happy Birthday Mrs. A!!!! You are very blessed to have such a lovely family. I’m sure its a reflection of your devotion and commitment to them. God Bless.
Happy Birthday Mrs. Allgaier! Hope it is filled with family, friends, food and fun!
Hugs,
Suz
Happy Birthday Mrs. Allgaier! Thank you for choosing to give the world the gift of Becky Allgaier Higgins. It’s a better world with both of you in it. I hope you had a great day!
What an awesome thing to do for your Mom…Happy Birthday to Mom!
Happy Birthday!!!
Happy Birthday!!!
Aloha and Happy Birthday from Hawaii. We’ve never met, but my sister in law is in Becky’s ward.
Happy Birthday Mrs. Allgaier!
I so enjoy all of Becky’s posts that include her family. They bring back all the wonderful memories of my childhood as well.
I hope you have had a blessed day.
Ann G.
Raleigh, NC
Happy Birthday Mrs. A!! You’ve raised an amazing woman, be proud!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!! You probably don’t realize it, but for those of us who have seen your pics since the early days of CK magazine, you’re sort of a virtual mom
Thank you for raising such a talented daughter; she’s a wonderful part of your legacy.
Happy Bithday!
Happy Birthday! I hope you have a wonderful day!
Happy birthday to what sounds like a fantastic role model!!! Now we know where Becky gets her fabulousness!!!!
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom! What a wonderful tribute from Becky to you.
Da da da da da da….you say it’s your Mom’s birthday…well, happy birthday to her…da da da da da da…:o) (O: Life. love it. live it.
Wishing your Mom a very Happy Birthday!!!
How wonderful that you celebrated your Mom’s birthday in a heartfelt message to her! I lost my beloved mother earlier this year and I wish I had done this for her. She knew how how much I loved her and I know she loved me but your expression and post just reminded me how much we take for granted.
Happy Birthday to you Mrs. Allgaier! Hope your day was fabulous! MOMS ROCK!!!
Happy birthday “mom”! Thanks for creating such a beautiful child–the whole world is blessed to have Becky!
Happy Happy Birthday!! I hope that your day was spectacular!!!
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom! This birthday wish comes to you from Sydney Australia, thanks for raising such a brilliant daughter and family (can’t forget the boys!) Hope you had a great day!!
Cheers
Jane
It is still your birthday here on the West Coast. May you be kept safe in the Lord’s loving care for many more years for your loving family.
Birthday wishes from Beautiful British Columbia
What a fabulous tribute to your mom! Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday! You look like you have not aged one bit since the first picture posted! “we built this city on rock and roll” is a family theme song for my sister and I growing up…can’t help but shake your grove when you hear it! Enjoy. Hope your day is filled with
Love and laughter and some good driving dance moves!
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom!
You are awesome and it shows because you’ve raised such an amazing daughter that all of us are fortunate enough to have “met” out here in blog land. You have obviously done your job…being a great Mom, for if you hadn’t, she wouldn’t be who she was today. And, perhaps all of our little lives out here in Becky blog land would not have been touched in the many ways I’m sure that they have.
Life gets us all down…sure, we all have those days. Working 4 days a week with 4 kids, I have my share. I had always loved scrapbooking, right from my first go, when my oldest daughter was around 8 months old. How cool to be able to preserve us… for our child (and future children)? I only wish my mom had been able to give me that gift about us when we were young.
I first heard about what I thought of as family history when I bought your amazing daughter’s first sketch book (with you on the cover, I might add!
). A few years go by and a few more kids added to the mix…3 in a year and a half, including preemie twins. To say I lost my scrapbooking time (and sadly, desire) is an understatement. I struggled with my mom role so much…Yet, your amazing daughter created both P365 and now Project Life and gave me MY “scrapbooking” life back. I was feeling stuck in a crazy rut while pregnant with the twins and felt I’d never, ever get caught up. Yet, all those weeks sitting vigil beside an isolette in the NICU…I managed to keep going with their history preservation…by using something your daughter took pride in creating.
I had thought for so long how did she manage to do it all and want to create something for those who fell in love with her scrapbooking back in the day?! You gave her a precious gift…obviously. All we really want is to show our kids just how much they are loved. As a mom, you don’t really learn that value unless you had been loved and adored by your own mom. The love she shares for you is obvious…a “Becky fan” for years…this was undeniable when you looked at the pages in her magazine columns.
Being the proverbial “behind scrapbooker” was taking a toll on me emotionally and I wanted to spend that time WITH my family instead of all of this time trying to chip away at a never ending to do list. Just so that someday I could hope to be a great mom who had done as much as she possibly could for her kids.
I’m so glad that you raised your daughter to do all that she has for all of us out here. Yes, non-scrapbookers and P Lifers think it is weird to be this passionate about this topic, but truly, moms like you are what it is all about. So that today, tomorrow and long after we are gone, our kids will have tangible memories of all that was important to us…our kids.
How truly awesome that you have such a neat special birthday blog wish!
Hope your birthday is (was – sorry I only saw this this morning) wonderful!!! Happy day!
Happy Birthday Becky’s Mom!! This comes from the great state of Maryland. Becky is so blessed to have had you for her mom, I am equally blessed with a mom that sounds very much like you. The greatest blessing is having wonderful, kind, loving, giving parents. May you have a wonderful day and have many more birthdays to come.
Enjoy this special day!!
Ruth Ann
Hi Becky’s Mom!!! Happy, Happy Birthday! Sorry I didn’t see this yesterday – I really hope you had a wonderful day!! I know what a blessing it is to have an incredible, supportive, loving mom because I have one too!! I pray that my daughters will feel the same way about me!!
Hi, there, Becky’s Mom. I’m a little late to the party, but I just wanted to say Happy Birthday. You have such a wonderful daughter. I hope that I can be half the mom you are with my daughter (and son). I want to of course nurture them and love them. But I also want to help them use their gifts and talents to enrich the lives of others, just as you have. Hugs and Kisses from down here in Atlanta, Georgia! And God Bless You…bless you all.
Becky – I think this was an absolutely beautiful tribute to your mom and is a birthday present she will forever treasure.
Happy belated birthday to Becky’s mom!
Hi Becky’s mum,
Sorry this is late but we have been away on a houseboat for the last week and as soon as I came home this is the first blog I checked.
Happy Belated Birthday all the way from Brisbane Australia…..
I just want to thank you. 1. For all your wonderful work you do from your heart for so many and all your charity and 2. Making a wonderful daughter like Becky.
I’m not a scrapbooker and only came across Becky around March this year when googling more stuff about photography and WHAM she kept coming up. I researched and researched, read and read and then was hooked. I love photography, I have a gazillion photos in and not in albums. But those albums are BORING. They weren’t sentimental enough for me they were just albums. PL fits me.
You have no doubt been such an inspiration to Becky that it is YOU that is reflecting out of all the products and inspiration that she shares with the world. Your daughter has made me excited about recording my family’s future and also past. So thank you for sharing your daughter with the world.
Hope you were spoilt rotten by your wonderful family.
Kind regards
Kristina
Hello there greetings from Perth Western Australia
wow! you sound amazing…i have two little girls and i would love for them to feel that way about me…you have done an amazing job….your daughter Becky has touched us all the world over!! i love Project Life and all things Becky Higgins…
i love that you made sacrifices and that you believe in volunteering…i love that you cooked…home cooked meals…
what is your one parenting advice that you would give? i would love to hear it…
my girls are 3 and 6 and i adore them with every fibre of my body as i do their father…a wonderful patient kind man…i am a stay at home mum who loves scrapbooking. reading and quilting…i love reading Becky’s blog…
thank you thank you thank you and i hope these birthday wishes are not too late!!
take care of yourself and please i am sure there are many out there who would love to read your blog too…thanks Becky i have just ordered the Clementine kit for next year!! woowoo!! cannot wait
love it
onwards…Tanya xxx
How sweet you are Tanya! No, it is never too late for any kind of ‘wishes’….even birthday wishes. Thank you for your many kind words about our daughter, Becky. So many others feel the same way you do…..and my husband and I marvel at our daughter and all that she accomplishes and her genuineness. What you ‘see’ with Becky is truly the way she is. She has always been that way. Having 4 older brothers and 1 younger brother helped Becky ‘create’ who she is. Her brothers love her deeply and would do anything for her and she likewise would do anything for her 5 wonderful brothers. Life is never without challenges but when you have a close-knit family and everyone loves everyone else, well, that is all that matters in life, really! You will do wonderful in raising your 2 daughters. When you have the Lord in your life one can accomplish anything…..even if it is not what you originally ‘planned’. Thank you for your wonderful support of Becky Higgins!!
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