Dear Mr. Bear,

As you continue to grow and become your own wonderful, happy, perfect little man, I keep thinking that I want to record these days together so that someday, when you’re older, I can show you how much fun we have together and how loved you are.  So I’ve decided to start this blog.  I hope that it will be a place for me to record our ordinary lives and our extraordinary days and my feelings about being your mommy while also trying to be all of the other things that I need to be in the world (a wife, a daughter, a sister, a friend, an attorney).

So consider this one long letter of love to you, my perfect little boy.  Through it, I hope you’ll learn how special and wonderful you are, that it’s OK and normal to struggle with things sometimes (we struggle with things all the time) and that your daddy and I will always be there for you when you need us (and when you don’t).  I’ll try to write every few days – or at least every week.  I plan to post pictures of our adventures and you as you explore the world.  I’ll also post “Things I want to remember” so that someday, when you’re older, I will have real Teddy Stories with good details to tell you and so that someday, when I’m older, I will remember each of our special ordinary days together.

I’m so lucky to be your mommy.  No one could love their son more than I love you.