Every parent means to write it down. The journal started in pregnancy, the letters started and never finished, the scrapbook half-finished in a drawer somewhere. We know that feeling because we lived it.

When our first daughter was born, something shifted. We came across the idea of writing letters to your children on Instagram and it stopped us both in our tracks. We found ourselves thinking about the things we wanted her to know. Not just that we loved her, she would always know that, but the specific things. The memories we wanted to share with her. The hopes we had for her life. The words we would want her to have on the days that would define her.

So we wrote her letters. One for each of the moments we knew were coming, the moments every life contains. Her 18th birthday. The day she leaves home. Her wedding day. The days that would be hard. The days that would be extraordinary.

When our second daughter and son came along, we wrote letters for them too. And when we read them all back, we knew. This was the most powerful gift we could give our children. Not something they would use once and forget. Something they would carry for the rest of their lives.

We also knew we were not alone in wanting to do this. Every parent has the same instinct and the same pile of half-finished attempts to prove it. We built Life Letters to make sure those words do not stay unwritten.

Every order is personal to us. We handcraft every single box, and sign every order by hand before it leaves us. Because we know what these words will mean one day, and we want them to be everything they should be.

Shannon and Dylan
Founders, Life Letters

Made with love, by our little family x