You’ll Always Be Mommy’s Little Boy
My dear, sweet firstborn. As the days pass by, your status as an only child is slowly coming to an end. Your daddy and I try to explain to you what…
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My Little Boy is in There Still, I Know it
I remember when my son was born like it was yesterday—a fussy, colicky, jaundiced, heat-rash bundle of baby boy. My baby boy. And I loved him more…
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There’s a Little Boy Where My Baby Once Was
Today my baby became a little boy. The change has been coming for a while even if I didn’t quite realize it. His movements shifting slowly. A…
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I Never Knew How Much I Could Love Someone Until I Saw My Son
No one told me when I was counting down the days until my first baby was born, that I would be praying for those same dates to arrive slowly in the…
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Dear Son, The Best is Yet To Come
First things first, son, I know you’ll be reading this letter much later in life, but go wipe your face. You see, as I write you this note today,…
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Dear Son, I Pray My Love Shines Through the Messy Parts of Me
I just want you to know. That I’m trying. And I mess up. A lot. But gosh, do I try. I pray every single day for the strength and wisdom and…
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Dear Son, I’m Sending You Into the World Covered in My Prayers
Dear son, You are called to be in the world, but not of it. And my goodness right now the world seems like a mess. What’s good is bad and…
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Dear Son, You Are What I’ve Been Waiting For
I’ve been there—in the depths of despair. Those dark and desolate nights when you feel as though loneliness completely envelopes you, with no…
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There Are No Goodbyes and a Thousand of Them As You Grow, My Child
When does it shift? Where my being enough for you, simply isn’t? Does it happen as quickly as Mommy to Mom? Will you be the tide and I’m…
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Someday He’ll Be a Husband
An open letter to my son’s future partner: One day, all too soon, it’ll be time for me to let him go. A day that awaits, filling me with equal…
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