Today marks...

...21 years since my baby girl was born. She is the youngest of my two sisters and is really my baby considering we're 9 4 years apart. I just wanted to put it out there, that she is such a wonderful soul. She is wise beyond her years, beautiful inside and outside, hard-working and humble and there's so much more I want to say about her but cannot find the words that do her justice!!!

At fourteen years old she faced the passing of our father, and as the eldest, I had a clear role to play but with her as the youngest and at such an age - she was lost. Despite the loss of our father, the move from Switzerland to Samoa, growing up with just her and my mum in Samoa - she grew up and did so with dignity and full of love and life. And today, she is the light of our family and its voice of reason. And thank goodness, as she alone balances out both my other sister and me - total crazies!!!!

Oh lawd, I am just tearing up as I write this.

Needless to say, every breath, thought and cell in me loves this girl dearly. I only pray that her life continues to express God's love and grace.

Happy 21st birthday Nema. I love you.