If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
Sir James M. Barrie


Dear Bug,

Do you know you are truly the owner of my heart? I wouldn't have believed in love at first unless they'd laid you in my arms, wiggling and crying, almost three years ago. You are absolutely a riot to be around. When you held up the cup and said, "Daddy, what color this?" and when he answered correctly, you said, "Good boy, Daddy! Give five!!" - and I nearly fell off the bed laughing.

You amaze me every day with your interest in making sure everyone is okay - you are a true champion of the underdog. You melt my heart into a thousand pieces when you see me cry and say, "You 'kay, mommy?? You 'kay?". You then take my face into your hands and wait intently to know for sure if I am or not. And after I cut my finger YET AGAIN the other night, and I said that I just wasn't okay, you went to get your blankie and offered me the only other thing that brings you comfort. I'd like to think I'm still the first, you know.

Bug, you light up my world and I can't imagine my life before you. I'm not sure I lived until you came into my world, really.

Happy Valentine's Day, my little man. Don't grow up too fast, too soon.

Love,
Mommy





here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)”

e.e. cummings, 1894-1962

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