Munchkin Letters

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September 30, 2011

Happy birthday, sweet girl! Sometimes I try to imagine the you that you will be when you read these letters.  Will you be twelve, knowing everything and roll your eyes at my emotion? Will you be seventeen and try to use my loving words here to convince me to buy you a car? Or will [...]

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Two minus one month

August 30, 2011

Dear Chessa, This is the last time I can (without appearing as an over-protective, doesn’t-want-her-child-to-grow-up mother) celebrate your birth on the 30th of a month that’s not September. Also, it means when people ask how old you are I have to start using years instead of months.  Because one month from today you will be [...]

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Memo to my babies

May 2, 2011

Dear Chessa and Cole, For the first time in eight weeks (Cole for the first time in your life) I left you all day long.  From 7:45 in the morning until 5:15 this afternoon, I turned your care and well being over to your Nauni and I went to work.  It was crushing for me.  [...]

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512 Day Letter

February 24, 2011

Dear C, Next week, you will be 17 months old and some time in the next 10 days, your life is going to change dramatically.  I don’t know how to prepare you for it. I worry about how you will adjust and what your little mind will think when we bring your little brother or [...]

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Dear Baby

January 19, 2011

Dear Baby, I can’t believe in less than two months we will get to stare into your sweet little face.  Some days it seems like only yesterday that we found out you would be joining our family and other days it seems like you’ve been a very real part of me forever.   I know your [...]

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Little things

November 3, 2010

Dear C, There are so many things I want you to know about your first few years.  Things you’ll read in your baby book or stories you’ll hear over and over from your daddy and I or your grandparents. Things like when you took your first steps or when you said your first words.  Memories [...]

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One-year letter

September 29, 2010

Dear C, Tonight, only moments after I put you to bed, I sit with my computer and think about what I want to say to you tomorrow on your first birthday.  And it seems I am at a loss for words.  In my mind I have fleeting memories of our last year together and glimpses [...]

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11-Month Letter

August 30, 2010

Dear C, 11 months old.  One month shy of a year since we met you and became proud parents of a beautiful little girl.  While we have been proud of you since you were minutes old and wrapping your hand around Daddy’s finger and our hearts around your pinkie, it has only been in the [...]

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Ten-Month Letter To My Little One

July 30, 2010

Dear Baby Girl, Soon I am going to have to start these letters with “Dear Little Girl” because you, my sweet thing?  You are leaving babyhood in the dust.  Every day you look and act more and more like a little kid and while sometimes, my heart swells so hard and so fast with pride [...]

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A letter to the center of my world…

June 30, 2010

Dear Baby Girl, Nine months old today.  Nine months.  Some days it is so hard to imagine my life before you were a part of it and other days it feels like I just brought you home from the hospital yesterday.  Before you came along, things were mighty different around our house.  I had my [...]

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