Dear Haumea,

it is such a privilege seeing you grow and learn new things every day, adding to our happiness with new expressions of glee and seeing your mum taking such good care of you (and not forgetting daddy at the same time) and all this happening thousands of miles away from what we call home. Yet your grand parents and aunties both by birth and adopted already show so much of ‘it’ and care, calling almost every day, melting away when you squawk into the mouth piece and keeping the snail mail man busy with all those lovely parcels for us.

The word in question of course is Love. One day when you understand that the love you receive from your parents and family is not the only kind there is you may ask what this is and frankly i wouldn’t have been able to answer you until recently. Not because without your mum you wouldn’t be here to listen but because i myself did not know and knew i didn’t. People who will bump into your life will tell you how much they care and how much they love you but too often that is just words and so it was for me until i met your Mum who gave the word a true meaning. If you ever need to know, your Mum is a well of information on the subject and your dad a happy witness.