Special Edition: My Wildflower and Me: A Letter to My Daughter on Her First Birthday

Today, I’ve had the great privilege of being Josefine’s mother for a year. That delicate, squishy, tiny baby we brought home after the most exhausting four days of my life is now a curious, brave and funny toddler.

All of the trite truths about parenting are, in fact, truths: time goes impossibly slow and increasingly fast, the days are long but the year…