Letters to my children ❤️
Harry, Of all the birthday letters I sit here and write each year, I think yours will always be the hardest. For every tear I have cried over your siblings racing through the years, I have commiserated myself with the fact that at least there was you, our last little dove. It turns out, despite…
Meggy, It’s taken me so much longer to write your birthday letter this year, caught up in a rollercoaster of emotions, falling down rabbit holes looking through all of our memories as you’ve grown and wondering how we ever got so lucky to have you as our little girl, our Meggy. As is always the…
Lewis, I’ve been sat here staring at an empty screen all morning trying to find the words to share with you on your 20th birthday. Just writing that down seems completely ridiculous when you were just born, just took your first steps, said your first word and threw those chubby arms around my neck. Twenty….
Eva, Every year that comes around I find myself sitting here questioning how it can possibly be time to celebrate another birthday with you, painfully aware that with every year your childhood is passing us by so fast. I wonder where that tiny little baby went who was placed in my arms – a real…
Joseph, I’ve sat here for such a long time staring at a blank screen, wondering how to find possibly find the words to write your birthday letter this year when there are no tales from your sixteenth year, no anecdotes of embarrassing incidents to look back on, no photographs of you and your siblings, albeit…
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…