The Perfect Smile

Although I don't know how to get the red eye out, I love this picture of my favourite "girl".
Again this was at supper at Bert and Sylvias place.................we had opened the last bottle of wine that Romy had saved over the years. It was a Bacchus from Domaine de Chaberton of Langley, BC 1997 vintage. It was a great wine and we toasted Romy as we savoured it.

My girl has had an amazing life already, always popular, loved ballet, soccer, drama, travelled to the UK regularly as she grew up, and to Switzerland to her godmother on occasion. She was a prolific writer and poet, had some great experiences as an Au Pair in Germany, travelling to her hosts Chalet to ski in Austria, to their boat in Italy for summer vacations, attending the last Kurt Cobain concert in Munich, before his untimely death etc. As a flight attendant she was in her element, as she loves people, helping and caring for them. Her role as bride, then mother has also been met with the nurturing abilities she has, even managing to ace her Herbalist course in between babies.

Of course her Crohns illness cut short her teenage silly years, almost losing her life, she had go grow up and mature too fast, she managed to do that though with aplomb, doing homework from her hospital bed.

Losing her Grandparents, her Nanna and her Dad all within three years has been especially hard and again, she has come through, altered, a little tougher but still my "little girl".

That is how I see her of course, she is my best friend as well as my daughter, I am privileged to share that with her, as I did with my Mother. I always hoped this could happen and I hope that she in turn will have that relationship with her girls.

She also loves her brother unconditionally and worries and cares for him, far more than she lets him see, but that is a whole different story.

Love you Jennilynnie............