Happy Birthday Masey

Dear Masey,

Happy Birthday Kiddo.  From the day you were born, I knew what unconditional love felt like.  There are probably going to be quite a few of these birthdays where I don’t get to hold you, hug you or kiss you but I hope that this will serve to show you just how much I care.

I know you’re smart- you have to be smart- you’re a Brandenburg.  And one day, because of your smarts, you and I will get to have that relationship we should have had all along. I get to be Auntie Jay and you get to be my favorite nephew.

You already are my favorite nephew and I don’t even know you.

I promise to wipe away all of my tears (yes mine) and yours... and be there for you no matter what. When you get in trouble, and you will, I’ll be there to help you through it. And when you struggle with calculus, I can’t promise to help because I struggled to, but I can certainly be the ear that you scream into because you are frustrated.  When you are mad at mom and dad because they did, well, anything, I’ll be there to tell you that they’re probably right and they are your parents for a reason.

I’ll do these things, Mason, because you deserve the best life you can possibly have.  You deserve all of the family in the world. You deserve the most promising and hopeful future I can give you.

With tears that hurt more than anything else in the world, I love you Mason Adam Brandenburg. You’re going to grow up to be a rockstar, I just know it. I can’t believe you are a year old already.

Auntie Jay