This blog was created for two reasons. (1) To share pictures, news, and stories with our family and friends and (2) To serve as a virtual baby book and ongoing 'love letter' to you. Despite my very apparent failure with this blog, I think we've actually succeeded in meeting that first objective. Between in-person time (which is always the best but, of course, not always possible!), phone calls, Skype, texts (often including photos), emails, YouTube, and Facebook, I think we keep our family pretty on top of your latest and greatest.
As to the second purpose of the blog... I must just apologize. We have dropped the ball over the past 15 months or so. We've obviously failed to blog so much. It is much too much to catch it all up on here. There is always going to be a gaping hole on this blog, and for that, I am sorry.
It's not for lack of love or of amazing things to write about you. On the contrary. I will never be able to put into words the magnitude of our love for you, our pride for you, the amount of happiness you bring us. I think the only way you'll ever know is when (hopefully!) you become parents yourselves. You just can't imagine. You make Daddy and I laugh like no one else. I think your father and I say "Oh my gosh, Miri/ Emmett is so cute" at least 10 times a day about each of you. You are both insanely good company the vast majority of the time. There are also, admittedly, plenty of moments of immense frustration and of utter exhaustion. But I am aware (sometimes not in the moment but always afterwards) that even those tough times are so formative- for you and maybe even more for us. You two have made me into a better, stronger, more self-confident, less judgmental, more kind and generous person. Can you imagine that? I am raising you... and in so many ways, you are helping me grow into the best person I can be.
So I apologize for my negligence of this blog. But I hope that someday you'll truly remember the actual moments we've spent together over the past year, and the joys of those memories will let you forgive me for not writing about them here.
And we are going to try to do better!
