06/04/2026
5 years….
June 2nd, 2021 we were just kids.
June 2nd, 2026 now we’re the cool parents with tattoos, we spend our Saturday mornings at soccer games, our playlist still consists of metal mixed with crazy frog and harry styles, our car is full of bottles and sippy cups, our house is full of toys, our love is full.
We’ve been through so much. Flooded basements, broken cars, we’ve lost and we’ve loved. You became the superhero our son needed when not even we knew if he was going to make it. You gave him your light. You stayed by his side. I know it hasn’t been the easiest five years, but there is not an ounce of me that would change it. There’s not another human on this Earth that could’ve done what you have done.
To the mother of the 4 most beautiful little humans I’ve ever laid my eyes on, I’m nothing without you. I don’t have what it takes if I I’m not with you. Until you, I had no direction and then you sat a baby in my lap… and then another… and then two more for safe measure.
You exemplify what it means to Love like our creator. Your Love never failed when it was hard. It never gave up. When I didn’t deserve it you still were there. When I didn’t earn it you still were there. And when I couldn’t Love myself, you took up the weight. A Godly woman is the greatest gift a man can receive next to his babies and you have surpassed that. You’ve done it with grace and irrepressible strength. You refuse to let the dark in.
When you pray over our babies every single night, I can hear your prayers like an echo as I fall asleep. You bring peace to my chaos. You are my anchor, you keep me still but never sink me. You always reach out your hand to pull me from those waters.
Haileigh, I’ve never experienced anything like what we’ve been through, but all I know is that it has brought us this far. I can willfully and truthfully say, this is all I want. I just want you, forever and ever. The day I wake up without you, I better be in Heaven first because there is no way I could ever handle losing you. I can’t. You kept me alive. You keep me loved. I am forever grateful for you.
Big Mama, I’ll love you til I die, and I’ll hold the gates for you after, forever.
