Happy Father’s Day

Last Father’s Day was a dark one for us—Ed’s second Father’s Day turned out to be the first one he would have to live through without his precious child. For the rest of our lives, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day will be bittersweet, for one of our children will always be missing.

But last Father’s Day, I gave Ed a painting, a symbol not only of how fortunate we had been, but also of hope that we would one day be happy again.

This year, I am grateful that my husband has a child in his arms again, a beautiful son with whom he can share the vast love and wisdom in his heart and the joy of seeing the world through a child’s eyes.

Happy Father’s Day to my sweet Ed, who is doing the hardest kind of fathering there is—fathering both living and deceased children—and doing it with incredible grace and love. I wish Hudson were here to make you breakfast in bed and make chalk drawings for you on the sidewalk.  But I am so glad that Jackson is here to make you smile and let you be Daddy again.  Our children are so very lucky to have you as their father, and I am so very lucky to have you as a partner through both our darkest and brightest days. Here’s to our precious memories with our precious Hudson, and to many more adventures to come. I love you.

*Final three photos by Emily Large at http://www.emilylargephotography.com/.  I will post more photos from our sessions with her soon.