The Two Mandi
Today is Amanda's birthday! We wish you a happy one and a safe drive home.
As promised, here's pictures from last weekend's wedding. These beautiful women (Mandy and Mandi) became best friends while serving in the Peace Corps on the island of Grenada. Well-- actually, it started in Miami sharing a cell phone on the airport floor before the plane even took off for the eastern Caribbean. John and I traveled to Grenada twice to visit, and we loved Mandi from the first day we met her.
Anyway, before the wedding our own Amanda was busy with bridesmaid things, so John and I took care of Nova. After we went to the carousel park it was my job to get Nova washed and dressed and ready for the wedding. Then it was John's job to tell her she would be "quiet as a mouse" during the ceremony and "clap when it was over." We worried that after a long day away, it might be a 2-year-old melt down when she saw Amanda again. But it helped that Mom had on strange make-up, a special dress and a fancy hair-do. Nova was amazed.
So we took seats in the very back of the crowd (just in case) to watch the wedding. Nova whispered that "Mommy was up there doing things." Much older kids around us were misbehaving, but Nova sat like an angel through the entire thing.
OK. The sailor outfit. I bought it for $10 at the outlet mall. Yes, it's something I would have dressed Amanda in back in 1979.
But I lost count of how many people said how CUTE she was!
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