My faithful old Christmas companion. I've loved your soft, velvet fur and satiny pink ears for as long as I can remember. It was always such a happy day when Dad took down the Christmas boxes from the rafters and handed each of us our velveteen rabbit (you have a B embroidered on your ear so that my brother, Jon, and I could tell ours apart). Each year as a child, I would write myself a Christmas letter to tuck into your big, red stocking with you, looking forward all year to reading that note again.
This year, though, I tucked something new in your Christmas stocking, and it gave me all the joy in the world.
It was Kayleigh's first Christmas. What a happy time! And she looked so sweet snuggled down in your stocking. It brought happy tears to my eyes.
Isn't it wonderful that the magic of a Velveteen Rabbit can live on, even after the child is all grown up?
Memories of those Christmases are so much sweeter now, knowing that I get to relive all of that excitement and joy with my own little family.
And you'll be here for all of it, dear Velveteen.
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You seriously have the most adorable baby ever! That first picture of her in the stocking is the best.
ReplyDeleteI love traditional Christmas decorations... my mom has this (rather scary) Santa that she's had forever. I loved seeing pictures of little-kid-her with it when I was younger, and knowing we had the same Santa.
OM Goodness!! She is so stinkin cute!!
ReplyDeleteVery cute pictures!
ReplyDeleteCute rabbit, but your baby is even sweeter, of course. It brought tears to my eyes too.
ReplyDeleteI had a Velveteen Rabbit too! I loved that bunny, but didn't like the book. It made me cry!
ReplyDeleteKayleigh still amazes me sometimes, but she did come from the original Cutie after all.
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