Dear Carolyn,
I’ve been debating for a while now about whether to continue writing monthly letters to you. On the one hand, I’d like to think that when you’re older you’ll love to go back and read them. On the other hand, I think that in between now and then you’re going to be really embarrassed that I took the time to document your life on the internet. Although, rest assured, you are certainly not the only child who has a “mommy blogger” for a mom.
I don’t know what to do. I love writing the letters to you, and I think it would be really strange to just stop. Maybe I should write them a bit less often – your birthday and half-birthday? Or maybe I should write them on good old-fashioned paper…or not.
See, today you are 5 years and 1 month old. And I thought to myself that I should stop writing you letters on my blog. And I was really going to stop. But then I thought that you’d be looking through someday and get to the last one, when you turned 5, and wonder why I just suddenly stopped. So, I started writing to tell you that I was going to stop, and now there’s a whole letter full of angst about whether I should be writing you letters.
What will I do next month? I guess we’ll have to wait and see!
Love, Mommy