Monday, 29 April 2013

What's Important....

It's my sister's birthday today....this felt appropriate...


My family is my world….

They are beautiful girls…

Everyone knows about me…so I won’t even bother…but I wouldn’t be here without my sisters…was looking at these Kardashian people and realised, I have that too and we are great because family is everything

Cookie…we will call her that for life…her name is Keziah, a variant of Cassia and it suits her just fine….big eyes, set in the most beautiful caramel coloured face, with a tiny nose and dimples….so smart and focused. Body like a calabash and jet black hair…when I am stupid, she is smart, when I am angry she can shut me up…not always my best friend, but we bleed the same blood…I love it when she laughs and when she defends the clan…our very own lawyer/politician in the making…everything about her makes me proud

Keren…Little Miss Serious….the smart one…she is studying to be an engineer, something I wouldn’t ever dream of…I love her strength and she looks like a mixed race model…long legs like a gazelle and a gap between her teeth…quirky sense of humour, aloof and Queenly, my precious little baby….I will protect her with my life…she has a son, sooooo beautiful I cannot even begin to express how we love him…a symbol of her strength…she is our Phoenix

Joanna…God made two improved versions of me…she is the first…hair that curls like springs, big dark eyes, exotic and pretty with a heart full of God…she gives me goosebumps when she prays and she is only 15…the funniest out of all of us, our resident Creepy Clown, and when she dances, the earth moves for her…she is so special, our dark chocolate, curvy Miss Something…peaceful, calm and gentle…slow to speak – actually slow to do everything…but she is ours…”Give me hope, Joanna…”

Suzanna…I didn’t know her very well in the beginning…she is larger than life…a voice like the breeze filtering through trees, light a piercing light, she surprised us all when she sang….genuine laughter and real warm love, the most vicious hugs…you would never forget her…always ready to make and keep friends, and so so so so smart…my little helper with the fierce temper…I love her…

Bernice…God must have chuckled when he made this one….we thought she was the last one in for nine years…so pretty…another one with a gap and dark hair and dark eyes…and legs for days…I know someone who agrees with me when I say the men will fall at her feet when she gets there…she is funny and tough, and very sarcastic and a little silly, head in the clouds…but her feet stay on the ground and life would be really weird without her…

ANANDA…our little miracle baby…and the only one blessed with mummy’s name…she is so tough and grown up already, the second remix of me…so funny and enthusiastic and a little bully as well. That we almost never met her and now she walks and speaks is such a blessing…she was born at less than  kilogram, and stayed in an incubator for weeks before she came home…she is our little rugrat, our cantankerous angel, our “Kupela”…

It easy to forget what’ important sometimes…but lately I find myself remembering more often than not that they keep me grounded…

MIZU……roots…my family are mine


Miss Mahogany....



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