The Traveling Baby Blanket

One of my favorite blogs to follow is the Chicago Moms Blog. Here she talks about how her sweet and mystified little one wants magic for Christmas and even though every year they have managed to give her exactly what she requests, this year is going to be a real let down unless she can unlock the secret to finding magic that is deliverable in a box…

Magic is something that can be pretty ordinary. It is typical of society to over-hype magic and ferries just like beauty and and this so called American dream.

I think your right in setting her up for realistic expectations but at the same time I would motivate her to look at the real “magic” or miracles that go on from day to day. I like to think of rainbows, birds that seem to be a bit too close but precious, flowers that bloom in the oddest places, murals that have come from the heart but are on the side of a building… simple things we take for granted but hold such beauty.

My mom never took the magic out of my life and those days that I am walking through the park with my dog and I see a dragonfly weaving in and out of the trees…I think of ferries!

Nutmeg is a girl of my own heart so this is the blanket I would make for her:

Dear sweet Nutmeg

May your dreams follow your heart

and your heart keep your eyes open

to all the magic that surrounds you everyday.