Typed version

Dearest Son,

I don’t always praise your good deeds enough but I always see them. It makes me so very proud when you cheerfully volunteer to handle things or to do helpful things for the family, mom, or your siblings like putting up the Christmas lights all on your own because your siblings want them or feeding the birds in the freezing cold because it makes your mom happy or cleaning the kitchen so mom doesn’t have to or caring for the family while I’m away so I don’t have to worry. You make this world and our family better, happier, and you make life easier and more enjoyable. We all trust you and we know we can count on you and that helps this family in very real ways to move forward. You are extremely capable, smart, bright, and helpful!

I’m proud of you! You are my son and I love you!

(Author’s Note: If you notice, what I wrote does not match up to the Typed Version. That’s because after writing the letter I realized that the original line that I first wrote [There are times when you cheerfully volunteer to handle things…] may be accidently misconstrued by my son that I thought he only sometimes cheerfully volunteered…so I changed it to what’s in the type version, rewrote the letter, but forgot to take a picture before I sealed it and gave it to him. These things happen when writing letters and I think it's best to stay flexible, fix it, and cheerfully push on!)