Savour the days

My sister is moving to Durban in a few weeks and only this week has it really dawned on me that this is the last Christmas where we are together like this... sometimes you think that what was, will always be.  This would be an error.  The moments of our lives should be embraced with wide open love because change is inevitable.  Manuela's changes will be good, very good.  But still my heart breaks.

And again, we see the changes, good but different.  Rebecca helping with the tree a few days ago.

Here she is helping with the tree in 2004 and she was two and a half. So ridiculous... the baby years were fleeting.  The lives of those around us are the greatest of gifts - precious, lovely and beyond measure.