Hello friends! I’m Becky, and this is a blog about my life.
I’ve been wanting to start a blog for many years…in fact, I’ve purchased website rights on several occasions in the past, but never found the motivation to stick with them and cultivate their content. So, this will be a lesson in perseverance as I see just how long I can keep this up…
Anyway, if you’ve arrived at this page it’s probably because you want to know more about me. No shame in a healthy level of curiosity. But joke’s on you because I’m notoriously verbose. So buckle up because you’re about to embark on a ridiculously long and unnecesarily detailed personal biography. I’m a full-time working mom and blogging is my side hustle. I was a painfully shy child and was mercilessly bullied as an adolescent al la Mean Girls style. Then I had a growth spurt. We’re talking 6″ in one year. And that physical transformation changed me inside and out. I stopped being a victim of my peers and I turned to humor to diffuse the social challenges I faced.
I never ever thought I was pretty growing up, and I didn’t own a single article of new clothing until my grandmother took me on a back-to-school shopping trip to JCPenny the summer between 6th and 7th grade. I am #3 out of 4 girls, and my three sisters are my closest friends. In fact, I didn’t even mind that I grew up with essentially only hand-me-downs because I idolized my two older sisters and couldn’t wait to inherit the clothes they outgrew.
I was homeschooled until I was in fifth grade, and I loved every second of it. When my parents finally “forced” me to go to public school, I was devastated. And I severely lacked the social skills needed to be cool. But I didn’t care back then. I was a straight-A kid who excelled at test taking. And outside of the classroom, I was heavily invested in ballet. I spent almost every afternoon and weekend in the studio, and I loved it.
My ballet instructors put me in point shoes when I was 9, hoping that I could be groomed for Juliard one day. But remember when I said I was painfully shy? Yeah. That. Sadly, no amount of technical perfection could make up for my insecurities. So, I quit…at the tender age of 13. I poured 9 years of my young life into ballet, and to this very day, my only regret in life is quitting.
Middle school and high school were awful, but I have an amazing group of girlfriends from that period of my life that I remain friends with after all these years. And each year that goes by, I find myself more and more thankful for their continued presence in my life.
I went away to college at 17…and quickly realized that I was not mature enough to handle it. By the end of my sophomore year, I was rocking a GPA of 1.4 and had landed myself on academic probation.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by – leave me a comment if there’s anything you’d like to read about here in the future!
p.s. In case you’re as curious and stalker-ish as me, my exact height is 6’1.25″ (because if you’re going to share a detail like that, you might as well be SUPER technical), 33 years old, and became a first-time mom in March 2018 when my firefighter husband and I welcomed our beautiful baby girl! We live in beautiful Litchfield County, CT, and we are fiercely loyal to this area. We have a sweet pup named Piper who is a hound mix and was rescued from a kill shelter in Tennessee.