My friend, my confidant, partner in mischief, wise beyond your years!
Ours was a sharing of exciting times....you getting married and then I, babies and all that jaz...
My home was your home, your home was mine....Kids painting walls, drenching eachother in mud, making trails with baby oil or baking powder. Camping and sailing, birthday parties, Christmas and New years celebrations. But the best of the best was coming home to find you there, table layed and tea on the boil, en baie baie koek! Wat het ons gedoen om ons besig te hou.....ons het gebak en gekoek!
Met kinders wat wild om ons round gejaag het! Ai dit voel soos guster!
And all at once the devastation of our family split appart - time and continents appart! Back then there were no cell phones and the post was scarce..
I mourned you then.....
But life gave us another chance to pick up as if we had never been appart....what a wonderful invention social media is! And I was teleported into you new life in Rotterdam where at last you had found your person, in him you found your home, Rene made you sparkle as the gem that you are. Thank you dearst Rene for cherishing so precious and fragile a person.
Yes she was brave, fought her battles laughing in the face of adversity, laughing at herself too, I can hear her saying " what the hell was I thiking, oh well I'm in it now I might as well finish it" But my dear friend sometimes even the bravest of us need a shoulder to lean on and that was your Rene, and your beautiful boys, which you did such a star job of bring them up despite all the adversities.
Though I mourn your loss for a second and final time, I celebrated the life you lived, one that thought us to laugh at ourselves, fight our battles bravely, to live humbly and generously, filling every moment you can with pure joy!
I rejoice your suffering is over, though you will be sorely missed, I rejoice because I know I will see reunited with thoses who have gone before you. Your loving friend Nadine, Harry, Vicky, Meka and Lisa🇿🇦
