Beauty

 This girl is stunning and amazing! She forges her own path and I look up to her in so many ways! She is strong. She is stubborn and she has tenacity.  All of these are strengths and she uses them well.  Only a few times can they all collide and prove to be problematic. Because when you get two strong, stubborn women together it either works or it doesn't! Being away at college she has had to work every day and she has supported herself fully on her own with only small supplements from home! Care packages come for some holidays and being a 6 hour time difference chatting on the phone is less spontaneous and more of a planned effort. When she's up she's either working or at school and when I'm up she's sleeping! She worries about life all too much. She worries about school about money about work about life. She takes on all of her friends ordeals and is loyal to them no matter what. She wants to fix and change the world! She changed her major and is going into Social Work! I was not so enthusiastic about that because I know it is hard. I know that she will see the face of sadness, injustice and heartache but I know she will make a glorious difference and I know she may not change the world but to others she will change their worlds! Isn't that amazing? To be able to change the world for others whom in return will be able to make the world a better place and even impact the lives of others for generations??!! Mind boggling! I miss her and I love her! She works at the PCC and she is either behind the camera or in front of the camera in traditional wear smiling with thousands of tourists each year!

 She is my favorite hello and my hardest good-bye! Safe travels to the land of warm breezes and beautiful skies and people! Love you my beautiful Beauty!

Brown Eyed Girl

My beautiful girl just finished performing at the Polynesian Cultural Center. She attends BYUH. She is such a hard worker and so independent. She is beautiful and she embraces the spirit of Aloha! I am so happy that she has found good friends and her heart has been captured by her culture and her people! Hawaii has welcomed her home. She is Hawaii

This girl is so independent and strong willed and a fighter yet she has the heart of gold and of service. She has a strong intellect which can be a blessing and a downfall.  She sees things so clear and is able to look at situations through the lens of clarity taking away the emotion and chaos. I tell her she has a special talent that would lend well to counseling or being in the medical field because she can react and always make clear precise decisions and not be rattled by others emotions or what's going on around her. I know my children are not perfect and I know they have their own struggles and trials! I am so grateful for my own trials as well as their trials. I know through my own mistakes I have become stronger and more solidified in the gospel of Jesus Christ. I don't pray for my children not to have trials or mistakes. I pray that they may always know how to re-align and re-adjust.  I pray that all these things may be for their own good and they may always find light, and truth and Jesus Christ at the end of their journey. In that breath, I am truly thankful and proud of the paths that they have forged.