Today is our youngest one’s seventh birthday. So, in keeping with tradition and without further adieu, here is a brief letter to her: Dear First Grader, You are seven years old today. To celebrate, I want to document seven things I like about you: You are spunky. One of your favorite words is currently “burn,”…
Dear 4th Grader, This past weekend we celebrated your 10th birthday. It feels like I was writing one of these letters to you just yesterday for your ninth birthday, but somehow you’re another year older and wiser already. {Meanwhile, I’m just another year older because I hid one of your gifts a few days before…
Dear 5th Grader, Eleven years ago today on a snowy Valentine’s Day afternoon, we nervously bundled all six pounds of you into a carseat and headed home from the hospital as a family of three. I’m not sure your dad has ever driven more cautiously on the interstate. We had no idea what we were…
