Dear Jakey, I have found myself restless the last few days and am grateful for the distraction of Thanksgiving. I keep picturing you last year at Thanksgiving dinner at Prime. You were so handsome and so brave. You were in your spica and I am sure you weren't overly...

Dear Jakey, It is with some hesitation that I write to you tonight. It was a year ago when we went to MGH so that you could get your Spica cast put on. It was about this day, a year ago, that I wrote a letter to you called Love Story. I remember so clearly how I felt...

  Dear Jakey, As per usual, I have spent a good portion of the day thinking about exactly one year ago today. And because your mom is a weirdo I remember explicitly that one year ago today (today as in this particular Friday in November, not the actual date) is...

Dear Jakey, I am sorry that it has been a week since I have written. For a while everything was seeming so intense and I almost felt like I was drowning in my grief. I just couldn't quite keep it together for too long. And then I snapped out of it. Or at least felt...

Dear Jakey, I have found myself so overwhelmed lately with it all. And yet I find myself today sitting here feeling quite proud of not only us, but of all those around us. I can't help but be reminded of the good in everyone and I thank you for being the catalyst for...

Dear Jakey, 11 months today. Which means almost a year. And like other months today isn't so bad. Lots of people are thinking of you and us today but like other months it seems that today isn't as bad, it is more the days leading up to it. I wonder if time will ever...

Dear Jakey, Yesterday I picked up the t-shirt memory quilts I dropped off months ago. They weren't supposed to be ready until Thanksgiving but I got to pick them up yesterday. I was so nervous going over but when I saw the one for us I was so happy. It really has so...

Dear Jakey, Today is All Soul's day but I guess you probably know that already. It is a day that those of us still down here think about all of you up there. We went to St. Clement's tonight and got your cross back. Ethan and I talked about where it should go. Without...

Dear Jakey, Entering the cemetery this morning, Ethan called out "Happy Halloween Jake" to you. It is our first Halloween without you and I kind of wish I could just skip it. I just read a blog by another mom who lost her kid and she was writing more about how...

Dear Jakey, Yesterday I super proudly represented MIPT Kids at the stationary bike race. It has been happening for a bunch of years and for some reason I could never be there. And this year I could. So I was. And I rode on the MIPT kids team which was just perfect. I...