How-to of the week: How to Recover from a Funky Week...

Smile at the flowers gracing your kitchen counter...bought for you "for no reason" by your sweet husband.

Breathe them in.

Play potato head with your little girl...and laugh when she makes an "Aunt Becca" potato head. Apparently, Becca, you're fancy.

Crank up the music on your handy little laptop while fixing lunch.

Delegate the task of putting the baby to sleep.

Cut yourself some slack about your two year old being a two year old and constantly getting hurt. (James was trying to do some creative climbing and fell behind our yellow chair, nearly biting off his lip. Or so it seemed in the first few post-injury moments.)

After all, he appears to be willing to take care of it himself with a Lightning McQueen ice-pack. 

And is smiling within minutes.

Enjoy watching your kids get daddy time. Especially the youngest who looks just like him...especially when they are matching.

Beautify something... 

...like your daughter's bedroom window.

(After spending a quiet evening working on them while JC watches a fight at a friend's house and the kids slumber, check "Bethany's Curtains" off the 2009 to-do list!)

Give your baby his first taste of watching sports with his dad when the Cardinals play in the Super Bowl.

While your husband is busy watching the Super Bowl, eat delicious brownies that his mom made.

Of course, sharing with the kids.

Take funny pictures of your kids.

When your boys fall asleep in the car because they didn't get naps, just open the doors and play outside with their sister for a while, letting them enjoy their slumber.

Find amusement in the fact that the cat weighs as much as your three-year-old, but she still wants to hold him.

When finally cleaning out some areas of the house that were harboring stuff from around Christmastime, don't care too much that the kids found Baby Jesus and the "hay" he was cuddled in and spread it all over part of the kitchen floor.

Get your filthy gone-through-too-many-babies-and-too-much-neglect carpet and playroom furniture professionally cleaned by a company that specializes in non-chemical products.

Friendly on the eye, toes, toosh and lungs. :)

Dance wildly around the playroom with your kids to 98 degrees' cover of "True to Your Heart" that plays during the credits of Mulan. 

(I don't have a picture of this moment. Nobody's loss, trust me.)

Then, realizing how much sincerely better it made you feel, do it again.

And again.

Laugh at how embarrassing the whole Boy Band Era was...then go fish out all your old CD's so you can listen to them anyway.

Mostly, say a thousand prayers of thanks in your heart over the course of many days as you realize how truly truly blessed you are to have the support and love of so many kind and gracious others.

I really couldn't ask for more.

Thank you to everyone who helps me see that, even when I'm in a funk.