My darlings,

If the universe has its way, today would be your birthday but hey I couldn’t wait to meet both of you (and when I couldn’t even walked the two metres I needed to get to the bathroom, I knew it was time).

Thank you for the wonderful fourteen years together and the many more years to come. Thank you for making me WANT to be a better person – a person who thinks twice (or thrice and maybe more) before giving up on what is good for her just because it is too hard or inconvenient, a person who does the right thing, the compassionate thing, because what good are words if they are not followed by actions.

Thank you for sharing your trials and tribulations, your joy and sadness. Thank you for trusting me with your secrets and your friends’. I will hold them dear and keep them safe in my heart.

But most of all, thank you for being YOU, the magical you, the grumpy you, the funny you, the naughty you, the determined you, the wonderful Daughter you. Thank you for being my YOU.

My beanie friends taught me that Valentine’s Day is a day you celebrate love, not just romantic love but all kinds of love, so here’s my love letter to you because you are and always be my Valentine.

Love, Mummy, and always
Love, February

14 Feb 2020