Letters to my children ❤️
Lewis, I’m not sure a birthday will ever come around when it doesn’t take me by surprise at just how fast the months have passed. It feels like just moments ago since I last sat here, trying to find the words to write to you on your fourteenth birthday, and yet here we are, fifteen,…
Eva, Every year when I sit down to write these letters to you I ask myself how your birthday can possibly have come around again so fast, how I have failed to notice, as the weeks turned to months, that you have grown taller and more beautiful right before my very eyes. And yet here…
Meggy, Where do I even begin to start writing this letter to you? How can I ever find the words to tell you just how much I love you, how proud I am of you, how utterly wonderful you are in so many ways, and yet, in the same breath, tell you how much I…
Joseph, 12 years, 2 months and 19 days. That’s how long it has been since the day you came silently into the world and changed our lives forever. And in that time I have told your story on countless occasions: I have shared it with friends and loved ones, I have confided in bereaved parents…
Harry, Well here we are, your first day of school, and I can’t quite believe that my baby boy, my last little Dove, is leaving me for five days each week. And whilst I’ve always known that, as the baby of the family, this would be my hardest goodbye, I didn’t realise it would come…
Joseph, Every year as I sit down to write your birthday letter, I feel a familiar sense of sadness that, not only has another year passed without you, but it still hasn’t gotten any easier. It often amazes me that I am still here, my broken heart still beating, that the world has kept on…