Happy Birthday To My Best Friend Sandy (on Earth) And Charlie (in Heaven)

Wow!

A lot of years have flown by since

Sandy and I were kids and

 first met in a laundromat

in North Fort Myers, Florida

in the Fall of 1970.

Little did we know the day we met

that we would become best friends

for life.

Friends that would see each other

through marriages,

 the births of children,

divorces that we weren't expecting

and re-marriages.

We have both moved all over the 

country but have always lived 

within driving distance of each other.

Let me tell you how good of a friend 

 I am.

When she went to remarry 

she asked me to be matron of honor.

The long distance tolls started

adding up.

Me:  Did you get your dress yet?

Sandy:  I found a nice pants suit.
Me: WHAT?

Sandy: Yes! You heard me right!

A PANTS SUIT!

Me: You can't get married in a pants suit.

Sandy: Watch me! (sensing an "attitude"

here are you?;>)

Me:  I am wearing a soft pink dress as 

your matron of honor.

Sandy:  Great!  I'm wearing a pants suit.

Me:  Really?

Sandy:  Yes! REALLY!!!

hmmmmmmffff

The day before the wedding I went shopping.

I bought a wedding dress in her size.

I took it to her home in Illinois.

Me:  I have a present for you.

Sandy:  What it is?

Me:  It's your wedding dress~

Sandy: (the red head in her making her face flush)

I have a nice pants suit!

Me:  MOM!!! MOM!!!! Come here, Mom!

Look at this- I bought Sandy a REAL wedding dress.

Sandy: Oh, Crap!  Don't get my Mom in on this.

Mom: (timidly) Well, it wouldn't hurt to try it on.

Sandy: (glaring at me) I don't like wedding dresses.

Me:  You'll like this one!

Door to bathroom SLAMS shut.

Door to bathroom opens.

Her Mom and I look at her and we are 

smiling from ear to ear.

Me: It's PERFECT

Mom:  It's PERFECT

Sandy: It's too big on the sides!

Mom:  You have four hours to get ready,

I'll take it in.

Sandy: FINE!!! 
(this is the closest we have ever come
to having a cross word with each other!;>) 

TA-DAH!

ps.  And THAT is what best friends are all about-picking your wedding dress out

for you whether you want one or not!

pffffftt.....A Pant's Suit!!!!
Happy Birthday Sandy!

Listen-she recently connected to the internet world down there in the wilds of Minnesota.

Wish her a Happy Birthday here for me-will you?

And Happy 61st birthday to my brother, Charlie.

He is celebrating his second birthday in Heaven

today- I miss you, buddy!
~You are forever in my heart~
Yep-my best friend in life and my brother
born on the same day-
What are the odds on that?
I hope they made him an
Angel Food Cake
up there where calories don't count!

I am still at my daughter's house this morning

but headed home this afternoon.

I will play catch up with you all late today!

Happy Birthday, Sandy...

I love you as much as if we were

blood sisters.

Who knows?

Maybe we are.....after all...

my Dad used to travel, you know!!!!