holiday magic.

When we found out we were pregnant with Atlas, one of the first things I did was to look for the perfect Christmas stockings for us as a family. I found some beautiful handmade ones on @etsy and hung them up the Christmas before he was born. Fast forward four years and I ordered another stocking when I found out Pilot would be joining our family. When we matched with Tippi I knew she needed one too. I went online to buy one and the small business had closed. Panic ensued and I spent too many hours trying to find one secondhand or something similar, while also trying to contact the now closed business.

A few months later (on the day we had our final home study visit) I got an email via Etsy from the woman who had made the other stockings. She said she happened to have one leftover and she would love to gift it to Tippi (cue all the tears). Weeks passed and I wondered if it would arrive, and then today (on #worldkindnessday and the day we were meant to receive our home study draft…. spoiler alert, we didn’t) it came and it’s perfect. We will hang it with our stockings knowing this will be the last year she isn’t home to open it on Christmas morning herself. ♡ ☾