Dear Tyler,
I am already tearing up as I write this because of how drastically our lives have changed. You have been through so much this year. My hospitalization for two weeks when you told daddy you forgot what I looked like, our move from New Jersey to Massachusetts, and now being apart from daddy for a very long time, with no set date for when we will be together again.
I am so sorry that this has happened, but it had to be, at the time we just didn’t see any other way. You tell me that it is okay, you still call me the best Mommy in the world, but what you will think of me five years or ten years from now?
After six months you are still so unhappy here. Any good thing I have tried to give you; a vacation to Cape Cod, camp, the pool and the lake, and soccer, still can’t make up for the fact that you miss your daddy and your old home. I know that, Tyler, I feel it too, but I am trying to make life as good as I can for you with what life has dealt us.
Still, you are excited about your birthday. The celebration at school, your party at night and your party on the weekend. Making friends is hard when you’re new, but you have three boys coming and you will have a lot of fun! As we get into the school year, I know you will make more friends, and hopefully the routine will make it easier for you to adjust.
Your favorite shows are Adventure Time, The Regular Show, Scooby-Doo and Ninjago. You love the Captain Underpants series and the Frances the Badger books. You are collecting the Lego Monster Fighter series and the Trash Pack. You love monsters and gross things in general. You have an Angry Birds backpack and a Spider-Man lunch box. You have really branched out this year from all things Spider-Man although he is still your favorite superhero. This year you discovered that my phone and computer have some really cool games on them.
You still love your Eeyore and you carry him in your backpack to school. You don’t take him out, it’s just nice to know he’s there.
You have gotten so tall this year. My little boy is turning into a young man.
You are so loving, compassionate and understanding. Our situation has made us closer, and we are partners in crime in our new adventures; getting used to walking after living in suburbia, getting lost almost every time we drive somewhere, and checking out the new parks.
But most of all, you are the bravest boy I know.
On your sixth birthday, know how much daddy and I love you, and know that we are doing everything we can to bring us all back together as soon as we are able.
