Goodbye Magic blanket... aka blank

Today was a very, very sad day for Lukie. We had to put blank to rest. This is the Barefoot Dreams blanket that Luke stole from Justin and I. He fell in love with this blanket a fews years ago and slept with it every single night! He named it blank... short for blanket. I would wash this blanket once a week or so because he would drag this thing all over the house. I have not been able to wash it for the past few months because it was already in shreds and knew that the machine would tear it up even more. There were so many holes in this thing that he had to wrap it around him just to cover them all. I have been telling him for a while that we were going to have to look into getting a new blanket because this one was SO disgusting.

He loved the blanket when he was home... we never took it with us for sleepovers or when we went out of town or anything and he would never ask for it either.

Well... Sunday night he was not feeling well and he told me that he thought he was going to be sick. I told him that if he felt like he was going to get sick to get out of bed and go to the toilet and I would hear him and then to come down and get me if I did not. About 2:00 Sunday night he came to my room telling me he did not feel good and asked to sleep with me. I asked if he felt ok and if he needed to use the toilet. He told me he was ok.

That morning I asked him how he felt and told him I was so glad he never got sick. He looked at me and said, "I did throw up". I asked when and he told me last night and so I asked him where and he said, "in my bed". So 5 hours later I go up and sure enough... there was a pile in his bed! It was all over his blanket and there was NO way that was going in the wash, it would have torn the blanket to shreds. I got a trash bag and told Luke he needed to say goodbye to his blank. He got this look on his face and I teared up, I felt so bad for him. He grabbed his eyes and said they were watering. I told him it was OK to cry if he wanted and then he just hugged me :( . He was soooooo sad. I put him to bed the next night and he did not say one word about blank so who knows... he is either really good at keeping things in or he really is over it.