All in Letters

To My Son on His 1st Birthday

Dear Sage;

My heart can hardly handle that you're a year old. 

As I selected the image above, I spent a moment soaking in its pure sweetness as tears steeped and my soul sat in suspension. That moment captured up there? It is in my top three moments of life. Documented to cherish for the rest of my life. In these first few moments of meeting you, my soul saw you and it sort of went, "Oh, there you are." 

To My Friends Who Are Foster Parents

Dearest Friends,

You are brave. You are changing lives.

Before you throw your hands up and walk away, shake your head, or mumble something about how I don’t even know the half of it and you feel like an actual failure…please come close and let me talk to you. Gather ’round, let me share what I see when I watch and think about you.

To My Firstborn

Me and you have spent so many days together, smiling and giggling and crying. I have told you countless times that you are the most precious little boy, that you are my favorite little human, that you are the most handsome baby I've ever laid eyes on. Soon I won't be saying these things... it is a weird thing for me to think about. You are beyond perfect to us and we cannot imagine how our hearts could possibly break open even wider for just as much love to rush in, for another human being..tiny and perfect...your brother. But we know that's what happens...our hearts will grow and stretch wider as each child engraves him or herself into us and our family.