Mami and Papi met working together in hospitality.

For Papi, it was love at first sight … literally. He had seen Mami walk in on her second shift at the restaurant they both worked, and was instantly captured. She had walked in with the head chef. Papi asked the head chef if that was his girlfriend, and thankfully, she wasn’t.

Since that day, Papi could not stop thinking about Mami, though it took him a whole year to write a little poem that would change everything, for the better (not because he was shy or anything like that).

For Mami, it perhaps was not the case, as both Mami and Papi had other relationships at the time, but once the little poem from Papi was delivered, Mami too, felt the connection .

We spent years dreaming of having children, imagining a couple of baby seats in the back of the car, then little voices blabbing and singing away, and for the 12 years together before having children, that’s all it was, a dream.

When we realised the struggles we would have to face to have children, the four years prior were both a financially and emotionally draining roller-coaster. Just when we were going to give up, in the 4th year of trying, our first little miracle was cooking! 9 months later, we had our first baby, a boy !

3 years on, our little baby girl was born !

Our lives, despite the challenges then, and now, are complete! As cliché and naive as it may be, love does indeed weather all storms, and conquers all!