Dear Jude,
Happy Thanksgiving to the most important person in our lives! I am so thankful for you that it's almost immeasurable. Last year on this day of thanks I had a sneaking suspicion that I was pregnant with you, but it was honestly nothing more than that, just a suspicion.
Today, a world away from that day, just one year later I'm watching you nap peacefully next to me and its almost like my world is spinning in slow motion. Watching your eyelids flutter, I'm just wondering what you could possibly be dreaming of and hoping more than anything that its something simple and wonderful. My world, our world before you came into it, was missing something. We never realized it, but now, after 3 and a half months with you, it's crystal clear. We were not complete before you, our family is now fuller than we could have ever expected.
Grateful and Thankful are words that you will someday understand the true meaning of when you have children of your own, but until then, please believe me when I tell you. You truly are the greatest gift and the most wonderful thing on the planet to be thankful for.
I love you and I promise to remember this first thanksgiving with you for the rest of my life. It's my first thanksgiving as a mother, and that just gives me even more to thank you for.
-momma
