感谢作者、中学英语老师张晓萍。感谢中文版诵读者顾文婷，感谢英文版诵读者、我的朋友西安威廉英语学校校长威廉先生（西安地区所有重要英语听力测试录制者）。也许这就是中国的现状，作为英语老师的妈妈，不但给儿子写了一封夹杂英文的中文信件（后应我要求改为全中文），还写了一封全英文的信件......感谢母亲，感谢家书
文/张晓萍
导语/梁轩诚
诵读/威廉（美籍）
Dear baby,
Every night, I feel amazed that you, as a nine-year-old boy, still find comfort and happiness sleeping in my arms. The feeling of protecting you overwhelms me while I dream of all life has in store for you. For you, I am the most important person in your life and I am sure you cannot imagine a life without your mother.
As I hold you in my arms, I can’t help but think how time has flown by so fast. I reminisce about the time before you came into this world. I think about how my life has changed from the time before I knew about you to the time I knew you were coming. After knowing that you would enter my life, I had spent the many months imagining what you would be like. Would you be a boy or a girl? Would you look like mommy or daddy? Would you be naughty or nice? There were just so many questions I had!
Every day was filled with such anticipation! And after a long ten months, my questions can finally begin to be answered. How excited I was at that very moment when I could meet you! You are the gift that God gave to me! I held you so tightly in my arms while you were still sleeping soundly, just as you are now.
After three days, you finally opened your eyes to see this fantastic world. That day my mother came to see me and you smiled to her. I was amazed at how light you were. I stared at your tiny little body, so fragile that a gust of wind could have swept you up into the air like a kite.
My boy, you are almost ten now, and every day that passes you mature and soon, very soon, you will not depend on your mother anymore. But as of now, right now….. you are still my young boy, and I would like to think that you still depend on me.
（诵读者威廉和他的学生们在美国）
One day I asked you what would you do when you grow up and eventually get married? Your answer made me laugh and yet brought tears to my eyes. You said rather stoically, "When I grow up, you can hold me AND my wife in your arms every night!" Oh… how I wish that could be true!
Oh, my baby, you are the sunshine in my life! Up to now, I am still the most important person in your life! But I know as you grow up, as you get married and have your own family, as you work and live to have a better life, this will inevitably change. I will eventually become less important in your life…. But that is ok because you will always be the most important in my life.
Love,
Mommy
作者简介：
张晓萍，岐山高中英语教师。热爱文学，朗诵，音乐，在岐山作家等媒体发表过作品。
诵读者简介：
威廉：美籍华人，西安威廉英语学校校长。威廉英语学校由中美教育文化界人士共同创建。针对所有想改善英语听说能力的人士，教学理念体现在关注学生英语学习综合能力明显收获的同时，更重视学生持续语言能力的培养。十多年来，威廉英语以先进的美式教育理念，完整的教学体系，不断创新的教授方式及优质的教育服务，帮助了数以万名的学生取得了良好的英语成绩，同时为想要踏出国门的学生们提供了完备的学业及生活指导，学生遍及美国、英国、加拿大、德国、新西兰、瑞典、香港等国家和地区。威廉相信无论是在中国还是走出国门，他的学生都具备国际化思维的视野，良好的自信及与世界对话的能力！
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