Panti

I have this friend named Amanda, aka Sea Cow, aka Panti. We met at the ripe old age of 2 and I have loved her ever since.  

We have the same birthday so as kids we were pretty much convinced that we were twins who had been separated at birth…

 

We spent our youth making music videos, playing dress-ups far past a normal age, jumping on a trampoline, and just being all around awkward and terrible looking...

As little girls we had big plans to grow up and marry brothers, move into her aunt’s house with our respective husbands, and teach preschool out of our basement. We didn’t marry brothers, but she married a pretty neat guy named Brandon, who I also love…

 

Into our adult years, she has been there for me through it all and has never once complained when I have spent hours at their house regaling them with my dating horrors…

 

Panti is the best person I know. I wish I could hug her and tell her all of this to her face, but she is all the way in Oklahoma. She is so strong, so positive in the face of trials, kind, thoughtful, and just truly good to the core.  She inspires me to be a better person every single day and I am so lucky to have someone like this in my life!

I love you, Panti! Auauauauauauauauauauaau! It’s a wee-haw!