Originally, these letters weren't meant to be shared publicly.

The first one I wrote was part of me processing my emotions around our Birth experience.

When a planned home birth turned into a hospital one.

Grateful both myself and our sweet Emerald are healthy, but when you envision something so personal going a certain way and the complete opposite happens, I feel it is mentally and emotionally healthy to release some of the feelings in a positive way.

I shared her birth story and immediately had messages saying how it helped others, how it inspired people, and how they just simply loved reading it. I decided to share the majority of my letters to Emerald.

Eventually they will be published into a book.

Obviously, this will be an on going project for the next 18 or so years.

I will write to our daughter about life, fun adventures, mine and her father's past, and different things as they come up. Once she is an adult I will give her the book.

There will be recipes, photos, laughter, crying, and

whatever the heck life brings our way.