Harry, Today you are nine and I swear it was just two minutes ago since I sat here writing the very same on the day you were eight. There will never be a birthday when I don’t experience a whole rollercoaster of emotions, especially when it comes to you. As much as I always consider…
Meggy, It feels like two minutes ago I was sat here writing your ninth birthday letter and yet here we are, ten. A whole decade of our little wild one and what a rollercoaster ten years it has been. Every year on your birthday I scroll back through the endless photos I have of you…
Lewis, Every year when I sit down to write your birthday letter it becomes more and more apparent that with every passing year, I have less and less to share. It’s funny to think that years ago when I first started writing these letters I would always have so much to write that I’d literally…
I’m sure those who have followed me for a while will remember a certain Sahara trek I did back in March of last year. I guess there’s a chance I *may* have mentioned this just once or twice since then, ahem. Although it was undoubtedly the most incredible, exhilarating and completely life-affirming adventure imaginable, the…
Eva, It doesn’t feel like two minutes have passed since I sat here last year, tears streaming down my face as I typed out your birthday letter. In fact it feels like no time at all since you were placed in my arms, after all of those years spent waiting, and you looked into my…
Joseph, This year I’m writing your birthday letter on the long drive down to France, painfully aware of the missing face in the back seat of the car or wondering if perhaps this year you would have chose to stay at home with Lewis and get up to all kinds of mischief together. I’d give…