I’m so used to writing facetious posts on here that my ability to write in a more serious voice seems to have atrophied. I have tried to write at least a dozen different birthday wishes, but none of them were good enough. So I’m just going to admit failure now, and offer you this meager and inadequate message in the place of the one that my heart would deliver if it knew how to type.
You are, quite simply, my hero. You inspire me. You challenge me in the best of ways. You catch me when I stumble, and can dispel shadows with a mere gesture or a smile. You have grown before my eyes from a girl into a titan, and I have never been more proud of anyone. You are an amazing friend, a steadfast confidant, a compassionate healer, a wonderful mother and an unparalleled wife. I am so very rich simply to have known you, but even more so to have you as a constant in my life.
Happy birthday to my favorite person on the planet.