Well, we’re coming up on Jackson’s 1st birthday and whereas the other blog letters to my son have come so easily, I’m having a hard time figuring out what to say.

How do you sum up in words the most amazing and difficult year of your life? A year where the challenges were only outnumbered by the rewards? I find myself wanting to cast in stone the feelings, scents and tastes that accompany Jackson’s first year on this world, so that when I am old and gray, I will have this blog to remind me of how it felt to hold a new baby in my arms while looking up into the eyes of the man I love.

I just don’t want to forget.