“Teaching Tetairoa what is right from wrong, how to love one another, because in a Hawaiian way, we always love each other and we are one big family. We always will be there for each other, and that’s how we grew up,” said Blanche.
“As long as our children can see what we do, the kids will grow up and become what we are…It makes me happy that my grandson, he sees me doing this kind of thing. The heart that he has is unbelievable.”
He came by it honestly, raised in a family that strives to embody aloha in everything they do. At the center of that is their matriarch.
“I feel like she touches a lot of people, she affects a lot of people, and people just, for some reason, some way, somehow people just tend to flock to her, and I don’t know, but I think a big part of it just has to be that she’s super big in her faith. She allows God to lead her and guide her, and she follows Him.
“I feel like a lot of people see my grandma as their grandma, and I like that. I’m fortunate enough to do a lot of big things and whatnot, but I’m still striving to be as good as she is or the person that she is.”