Growing up, I always wanted a sister. Someone who would be able to share in all of the important moments in my life, someone to laugh with, someone to cry with. But my mom never spit out another female. However, she did enroll me in dance at Performing Arts Unlimited when I was two years old, and it was there that I met my sister. It's been 20 years, and we have never had a single fight, a single problem. We have shared in every big moment that has ever happened to either of us, from competing in dance when we were little, to stalking out boyfriends in high school, we were standing by each other on our wedding days, she was there when both of my children were born, and most recently, I looked at the pregnancy test she peed on before she did, and I was the first to know she was about to join me on this journey called Motherhood. The day she got married, she wrote me a letter, and although I'm not going to share all of it, there are parts to it that are perfect for this blog.
"Sometimes in life, there are bonds made that really never can be broken. Sometimes you really CAN find that one person who will stand by you
no matter what. Maybe that person will be a spouse. But, there's also the chance that the one person you can count on in a lifetime, the one person who knows you sometimes better than you know yourself, is the same person who's been standing beside you
all along."
"We now both have our dream spouses- our soul mates. But while Ed is the love of my life, I consider you my other half. You're the one person in my life who has NEVER let me down, and I can't even begin to tell you how grateful I am for that."
And the next part, Tabitha McEntire, is your own words, only now I can say them back to you: My hope for my new niece or nephew is that they find friends that are as loyal and compassionate as their mother. You are going to be a GREAT mother (I know this because I could not ask for a better aunt to my own kids), and I am so proud of you!!
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| She hates this picture, but I love it. I think we are 6 and 8 here. |
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| Her Senior recital, I was a sophomore. And squalling because my best friend was leaving. |
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| Side by side, they're glorified. Where the underworld can meet the elite, 42nd Street. |
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| At Club Europe for Tab's 21st Birthday |
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| She drove over on 3 minutes notice to help me address about 200 wedding invitations |
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| My wedding day |
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| Talking to Greenleigh in my belly |
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| New Year's 2009 |
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| Holding Greenleigh for the first time- April 16, 2009 |
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| Circle of Best Friends |
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| (Morning after) Tab's 23rd birthday |
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| Circle of Best Friends Take Two- Superbowl 2010 |
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| She helped with my first dance recital- May 2010 |
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| At my favorie place in the world! Coolidge Park |
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| APPLEBEE'S |
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Poolside at her Couple's shower |
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Why yes we do still match from time to time :)
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| I have to admit- I threw her an AWESOME bachelorette party |
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| In the hotel the morning after her Bachelorette Party |
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| Her Wedding Day |
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| She hates this picture because of who she looks like... and that is why I included it :) |
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| Meet my "nephew', Achilles |
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| March 19, 2011- Congrats, new Mommy-to-Be! |
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| I am so excited to meet my baby!!! |
So I actually ALMOST cried-and you know how big of a deal that is. Not everyone is lucky enough to have best friends like us. We really are SO blessed, even with all the crazy junk that happens to us....and there's a LOT of crazy junk. I love you! <3
ReplyDeleteAMEN to the crazy junk! I love you too.
ReplyDeleteya'll are the sweetest friends! Hold on to the true and dear people in your lives. Congrats mommy to be! You'll be a GREAT mom and it's gonna be a beautiful baby!
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