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Month 77 & 78
Dear Olivia, Learning that you’re pregnant with your first child brings about a roller coaster of emotion. One can never fully be ready for the amount of change that will come hurling in to your life and for the most part, you just have to give in to the notion that you will have no […]
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Month 52 & 53, Version 2.0
Dear Miles, I’ve had the need lately to purge the great mounds of things we have acquired in the short five years that we have resided in the ol’ blue house on Shapleigh Court. You and Olivia know the drill–when you spot me and dad dragging garbage bags out of a room, you know to […]
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Month 76
Dear Olivia, Every now and then I come across a video of you and Miles that makes it hard to believe that you both were anything but older sassy-mouthed children. In this particular video, you must be around three years old and holy cow, you were adorable. Between the soft baby curls, the child lisp […]
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Month 51, Version 2.0
Dear Miles, The concept of sibling rivalry is somewhat foreign to me since the age gap is go great between me and my sisters. Since you and Olivia are only two years apart in age, I knew your relationship with your sister would be vastly different than my own experience with my sisters and I […]
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Month 74 & 75
Dear Olivia, These past couple months have been such a blur between the holidays, school, extracurricular activities and working. My apologies that my default response to you asking, Mom is WHAT?! WHAT IS IT?! USE YOUR WORDS! WHIOHIFKEFKLJA! I’ve been a little overwhelmed with things lately but it’s a new year. A chance to start fresh. I […]
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Month 49 & 50, Version 2.0
Dear Miles, I know what you’re thinking–did Mom disappear because she finally fell off the deep end? If she’s gone, does that mean I can have her slice of pie? Thank you for your most heartfelt concern but no, I am still here. These last couple of months have been a little hairball between the […]
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Month 73
Dear Olivia, When Halloween was approaching and costume catalogs started rolling in, I was certain you were going to declare that you would be Elsa for the big day. I look back on Halloween with fondness, longing for the days when I could dress you and Miles up in adorably embarrassing costumes but you quickly […]
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Month 48, Version 2.0
Dear Miles, Your birthday came and went in a flurry leaving me asking myself, we acknowledged it, right? Yes, rest assured–I would not forget your birthday. Although you seemed rather disappointed in my decorating efforts. I had hung a birthday banner, hung balloons on your kitchen chair and even made a very high school-esque birthday […]
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Month 72
Dear Olivia, Last month you were debilitated with the fear of your loose tooth–would you swallow the tooth in your sleep and choke on it or would it somehow make its way to your belly where it would sit and grow in to a behemoth life form? Every night before bed was spent reassuring you […]