Happy Birthday my love.
Today your birthday falls so appropriately on Thanksgiving…and while I have my usual gratitude list that’s a mile long, at the very top of it is you. Always you.
Ten birthdays by your side and what I write every year seems to multiply ten fold each time.
Thank you for sneakily getting my number ten years ago and sending me that first text.
Thank you for years of listening to me dream out loud, holding me in my darkest moments and letting me learn and grow alongside you. I couldn’t be prouder to be on your team.
Thank you for road trips and silly fights and for making life an adventure even when it’s really hard.
Thank you for being brave enough to be the one to make us take that break we needed all those years ago. Thank you for coming back and proving to me that you were back for good (and letting me take 300 sunset selfies to capture the moment!)
Thank you for teaching me patience and trust in the timing of our life. Every moment I’ve ever dreamed of has been worth the wait. You always know just how to reach out for my hand and lead us across those bridges so well when we get there, thank you.
Thank you for always being on top of “getting me”, letting me be and building me up when I’m not doing it so well myself. You know when to surprise me, when to keep things real and that the little things always mean the most to me.
Thank you for fearlessly standing by what you believe, but being open-minded enough to others.
Thank you for loving your family like you do and for loving mine just the same.
Thank you for tirelessly working at building our life up, for never giving in to the tough days and for helping me believe that the best is always yet to come. I simply cannot wait to enter this next season of life with you and watch you be dad to our boy!
Thank you for another year of letting me stand by your side, shout out to the world how lucky I am and and for letting me celebrate everything you are even when I don’t have enough words to do it justice.
Thank you for all of this and the millions of moments in between.
May I be lucky enough to write at least another 100 of these notes!
I love you.
xxx
