​How to write the opening pages

I will open this post with a warning: if you are my wife and you’ve decided that this is the moment you are going to stalk my Reddit, you need to go. You aren’t allowed to read this post. Get off the internet.

I am so serious.

Now that she is gone, for Christmas I am filling a journal for her. Everything under the sun; old stories about me, answering questions she’s had about me or for me, recipies, poems, anything and everything I can think of for her. A little bit scrap journal, a little found paper. Images, stickers, things like that. Now here’s the problem: I don’t know what the first entry should be, or how to start it. I had written her a series of letters in the past and I ran into this problem then too. For that the starting letter was basically introducing her to the concept and then several pages of just how much I loved her – which was expanded on in a following letter. I guess my main concern is just rehashing that concept. I already have the very first page telling what it is, and I don’t want to immediately start with, like, the most serious and personal stuff – and on the flipside I don’t want to start off with something inconsequential like a recipe. I suppose it is relevant to mention that I am mute, so expressing things like this have never been easy for me and that coupled with my first page anxiety makes tasks like this hard for me.

So any help with this first page; ideas, suggestions to get over it, etc. would reallh help.