Mandi
I am a woman and proud to wear the title.
I am a mother to two beautiful, amazing and clever children.
I am a sister, a daughter, an aunt, and a damned good friend.
But above all else, I am Mandi.
I laugh loudly, smile generously, and love abundantly. I am strong and free and relish in warm joyful moments. I am wild, and daring, and young at heart.
I approach life with my glass “half full.” I try to see the sunshine through the clouds, to find joy in sorrow, to seek laughter through my tears. When the clouds and the tears win, I pound out my frustrations on the black and white keys of my piano, have a dance party in my kitchen, or I distract myself with words and escape into a fictitious world spawned from someone’s colorful imagination, and often that imagination is my own when I sit at my computer, and I write.
When the world seems to stop spinning, and the wind won’t catch my sail, I turn to my people; my funny, clever, talented, amazing people who build me up and allow me to do the same for them.
And often, those people are the beautiful and brilliant women who I revere, my SisterWives.
Because…
Alone we are enough, but together we are stronger.
I am Mandi.
I am a SisterWife!
The SisterWives 
Hmm, I didn’t realize you had such big brown eyes.
Why would I notice something like that? Well, because Cimmy has big brown eyes. And despite that eye color being a dominant trait, that eye color is actually uncommon amongst BOTH sides of our family!
My mother was bummed when Cimmy didn’t bear brown-eyed children. But, she was also bummed that Princess wasn’t born on Mother’s Day. Phttt, whatever, she came along close enough.
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Actually, Jak, my eyes are hazel, so they go from brown to green depending on what I wear and my emotional state. If I cry, they turn bright green. I do love big brown eyes though.
My husband’s birthday often falls on mother’s day. It’s no fun to share that date. I mean, how do you trump Mother’s Day? Hey, Ma, I know it’s supposed to be your special day and all, but it’s my birfday…deal! Nope, mom wins every time, and I’m okay with that!
Thanks for the compliment about my eyes though. I probably should have said that first.
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He said you had big brown eyes, not that he liked them or that they were beautiful. Lol.
Kidding! You are beautiful, eyes, heart and everything. I’m glad to have met you and Lizzie and Beth and now the rest of these great women here. Blogging has been so much more than I ever hoped it to be. Looking forward to more.
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Gah, Don, you’re such a shit! He didn’t compliment my eyes, but apparently I have a huge ego and heard a compliment. *runs to mirror to admire myself* Kidding.
I love you, too, Don, and I’m so glad Bethie introduced us way back when I started.
Blogging is way more than I hoped it would be, mostly because of the friendships I’ve made, even when they’re with people who talk a lot of shit. Ahem…
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