Dear Twisty

I dont know when you'll read this (and I do hope that you blog soon because you have done so much good work over the past few weeks/months that everyone needs to know about), but this note is note just to you and only you. 

Too often when I try to thank you for everything that you do for your boys (myself included) it comes out as "GOMMY DO GOOD TODAY ME THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU WORK" or something else cave-manish. Rarely do I take the time to sit down and articulate just how much I love you and appreciate you for who you are. 

Our life has been a love story. It started off as just the two of us, and then we included a sweet (and now feisty, tooties) and then we brought in our adorable gommy. I look at this blog as a living manifestation of that love story, which is why i try and keep it updated. It's a remarkable thing to have a repository for all of the emotions we've felt over the past 4 or so years. 

But going back to that theme of the love story...your love has been the thread that has carried us through the past few months. Your love is the reason that our sweet gommy is doing what he's doing. Everyday I see you working as hard as you can to make him work as hard as he can to be everything he can and will be. Everyday I see you critically analyzing your effort to see what you can do better the next day. Everyday I see that the choices you make in life revolve around what is best for your men (myself included), and words will never be able to express how much i appreciate and admire you for that. 

Admire is the right word. Your efforts are heroic, and I'm self aware enough to know that I'm incapable of doing the things that you do. Not saying that you love our sons anymore than I do--but your love empowers you in a way that I cant even fathom. Your constant drive, your constant energy, and your constant single minded focus of raising our sons to be the best they possibly can be...well...it inspires me. I'm so very lucky that you're my wife, and I'm so very lucky that you are the mother of my two beautiful boys. 

Our family is perfect. And we are perfect because of you. We will be perfect because of you. Mitch Albom said, "When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that it us the purest lovve you can find on this earth". I'll take that one step further. When our sons look into your eyes, or hell when i look into your eyes I see the purest heart, and a single minded, unselfish desire to help all of us be the best we can be. 

You are my heart, my soul, and my hero. I'm so very blessed to be your husband. 

Love,

Poppa.