Marrying Mommy

After months and months of intense planning and anxiously awaiting the big day, Aunt Laura got married last weekend. The wedding ceremony was sweet and special, and the reception was a fabulous party. Lanie especially enjoyed dancing with cousin Evie in their coordinating seersucker dresses that twirled around them when they spun around. The whole affair must have made quite an impression on Lanie. Exactly a week after the wedding, Lanie came over to me and said, "I want to marry you, mommy...in a big dress." I'm not sure who the "big" dress was for - Lanie, who was enamored of Aunt Laura's gorgeous gown, or me, who at eight-and-a-half months pregnant would need a really big dress.