Monday, January 16, 2012

Velveteen Rabbit

Dear Velveteen Rabbit,


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?


As a child, I didn't think any memories could be sweeter than those of Christmas morning.  Four pajama-clad kids, running down the hall with their Christmas stockings, bouncing into one bed, relishing every clementine and chocolate coin they found inside.  Laughter ringing down the stairs and awakening a very sleepy Mr. and Mrs. Claus.


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.



6 comments:

  1. You seriously have the most adorable baby ever! That first picture of her in the stocking is the best.

    I 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.

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  2. OM Goodness!! She is so stinkin cute!!

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  3. Cute rabbit, but your baby is even sweeter, of course. It brought tears to my eyes too.

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  4. I had a Velveteen Rabbit too! I loved that bunny, but didn't like the book. It made me cry!

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  5. Kayleigh still amazes me sometimes, but she did come from the original Cutie after all.

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