A Day In The Life Of A Mommy's Girl: My Brothers and My Second Mother

God has blessed me with not just one absolutely fantastically wonderfully amazing mother, but two! That right. My mom's best friend, Momma Binky!

My Mommy and Momma Binky have been best friends since they were in the 4th grade together.

They grew up together in St. Petersburg, Florida.

My Mommy moved to Jacksonville when she was almost 16, and they stayed close.

They were each other's maid of honor at their weddings.

They had their first kids 6 months apart.

They would visit each other in either Jacksonville or St. Pete often, and KK and TT grew up together.

(thats me and my best friend!)

Tea Party! One of many...

Trips to the zoo!

Play dates at home.

And lots more! Then, when i was two, JJ was born! Then two years after her came C! And they were now included in our little family! We would even go over to Momma Binky's sister's house and hang out with her kids too!

We would make lots of trips to the beaches and gardens in both Jacksonville and St. Pete. Those seem to be some favored spots.

We even took a special trip to a river house once! We had lots of fun there floating down the river with otters swimming right under us, and sitting in the yard by the river catching minnows. I still remember keeping the minnows in a sand bucket in my room over my bunk bed, and breaking up a hotdog but to feed to them.

Those were the days. When we could drive an easily worth it 5 hour drive to visit some of my favorite people! When C would come spend a week out of the summer at our house (T is allergic to our kitties...)

Earlier days were spent...playing dress up.

He asked me to! I Swear!!

We went all out.

Then he grew up and lost interest in playing dress up. Darn :/ So we spent some time on the boat.

Sometimes we even met in Orlando!

Me and C at Disney

Margaritaville at Universal

Unfortunately, thats not as easy as it used to be. Momma Binky's husband is in the Coast Guard, so they kinda move a lot. They have lived in Tampa and St Pete here in Florida. Also Puerto Rico and Alaska! Momma Binky loved living in Alaska so much the last time, they decided to try to get another job there. They did, and I miss them terribly!

Last summer, we got the amazing opportunity to go visit them in their 10 square mile town of Petersburg, Alaska!

Being in Alaska was kind of cool and all...(yeah, try very cool)

but the best part was getting to see my brothers and my other mother again.

The Kids!
T, C, KK, and JJ

We got to do some amazing stuff!!

We spent lots of time on the little Coast Guard boat the families use, because their town is on an island.

We got to see really awesome stuff, like sea lions on buoys!

Beautiful ice burgs!

A seal hangin out on an ice burg. (which is a big deal apparently)

And a hike to a spectacular waterfall!

We also got to do cool stuff like kayaking, a cook out on the beach, and a hike around 3 lakes.

Me and Momma Binky!

This is their beach.

This lake had a boat!
They actually trusted me and C to go out by ourselves...we got stuck int he middle, then it started to rain.

We also got to go to Juneau!

And do lots of fun stuff there, too.

Mendenhall Glacier

Shrine of St. Therese

And have this as our view at lunch!

Thanks to the Mount Roberts Tramway.

But still, my favorite part was getting to see my second family.

My Mommy and Momma Binky are two of the most important people in my life. Im so lucky to have two wonderful people to call mom. They are both so amazing and loving and supportive and I would be completely lost without them. I think moms are angels sent from God.