Category: Letters & Milestone Reflections
A Letter About Who You’re Becoming, Written While I Still Notice
I caught a glimpse of my daughter’s personality shifting again recently, subtly but unmistakably, and wanted to write…
A Letter To My Daughter, For the Day She Reads This
A heartfelt letter to my daughter about love, mistakes, and watching her become exactly who she already is.
The Last Day of Being Five, Written Down So I Don’t Forget
Tonight is the last day of my daughter being five, and I found myself genuinely wanting to write…
A Letter To My Child On Their First Day of Kindergarten
Tomorrow you start kindergarten, and I’ve been trying all week to figure out how to put tonight into…
A Letter To My Child On Their First Birthday
Today you turn one, and I’ve been trying to write this for a week without quite finding where…
What I Was Really Feeling On Their First Day of School
I smiled and took the photo by the front door like every other parent that morning, and it…
A Letter To My Child Before They Ever Leave Home
My daughter is still years away from leaving home, but I found myself thinking about that eventual day…
A Letter To the Teenager I Know Is Coming
My daughter is still years away from being a teenager, but I’ve started writing to that future version…
What I Want To Tell My Daughter When She’s Old Enough To Hear It
There are things I want my daughter to know eventually that don’t fit into any ordinary Tuesday conversation,…
A Letter To My Newborn, Written In the First Sleepless Weeks
I found this, unfinished, in an old notes app folder recently, written somewhere around three in the morning…