“So big sis this is it, are you ready? And can you believe it?”

I smiled back at the face that was so like mine as I considered my answer

            “You know what I can’t believe it but at the same time it’s like I always knew that
this is where I was headed. Does that make any sense?”

I shook my head at my own sentimentality but everyone seemed to nod as they
accepted what I had said and with nothing else to add went back to finishing
breakfast before we all had to get ready.

I mopped up the yoke of my runny egg and enjoyed the last of the peace before the
day really began.

—————————————-Tina——————————————

We had all gotten straight down to sleep last night and were feeling very
refreshed as we sat looking slightly smug at the Kitchen island at Andy and
Rachel’s it was the first time I had really spent any time with Rachel’s family
not in a group setting and I was enjoying the stories of their past in Alabama
and amazed that this is where they hailed from being that they were so liberal.

Ruby had returned bright and early not willing to bunk here in a shared room but
happy to be back at half seven with champagne for our breakfast toasts.

It was strange as I took it in that Angie and I were the only two non blood
relatives in the party I think we all to easily forget that there is a world
outside our little family because so many of us have lost or no longer have
relationships with our families as Rachel still does.

It was good to get to know them and it helped to know Rachel a little better she
was calm like her sister but looked like her mum and aunt and shared a bigger
zest for life and wicked sense of humour with them against the more stoic
nature of her siblings and from what I knew her dad.

We shared the stories of Andy and Rachel we had and explained the reason the
wedding would be at ours and not in Andy and Rachel’s yard and generally had a
good girly chat over pancakes and mimosas. Now it was time to get us all ready
to go. No mean feat with limited bathrooms and lots of women but it went
surprisingly smoothly with Rachel’s dad and brother showing up and taking over
the living room as man space while they waited for us.