My son Moses (7) has wanderlust just like his mama. It has always been this way for him. As a four year old his favorite book was the Kingfisher Encyclopedia as he allowed images of other cultures and places to permeate his ever expanding mind. I love this. I love that he comes to me wondering how much a plane ticket to Peru would cost or asking me if I would rather go to Rome or Egypt if I could pick just one.
I don’t want this to ever change. And though there are constraints of how many places I can help him travel, I can do everything in my power to continue to cultivate his passion, his dreams, his heart.
Right now it is in the form of wall paper paste, a few salvaged atlas’ and a box of old maps from my mother.
And an hour and a half later I have begun creating for him a space that will let him trace continents and railways with his still chubby fingers, let him fall asleep to the visions of faraway places just waiting to be seen by his deep brown eyes.
I may not be able to take him to Peru this week {or this year}, but I can give him the world, right in his little attic bedroom.
What can you give your children this day?
xoxo.
love it anya! freaking awesome!
what’s going on with the bathroom on the main floor? need an update on that wall paper situ! xoxo
The next home owner will sure have fun trying to take that stuff down!
You are so cool!! And I bet Moses loves it!!