title: Sweet Dreams: Wishes for Our Children
author:  Tracy Raver 
description: Tracy Raver and her sister Kelley live in Omaha, Nebraska where they photograph newborns, babies and children. They are best known for their exquisite photographs of newborns sleeping in an array of poses. The babies have to be very, very warm, so we crank the heat up to about 85 degrees, and we ask the moms that they have their bellies nice and full before they leave so that the drive to the studio gets them sleepy and relaxed in the car.
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  Dear Friends,
  
  
  
  
  
  When we were children, my cousins and I often lay on the grass during those
  warm summer nights, gazing up at the heavens and wishing upon a star. It seems
  the child in us never really goes away, does it? I was reminded of this some
  time ago, when I met a reader named Arliene Zeigler at an autographing and she
  told me about her list of wishes. They weren’t resolutions, decisions or even
  goals. They were simply wishes. Some of them were places she wanted to go,
  people she longed to meet and experiences she hoped to have.
  
  
  
  
  
  Don’t we all have wishes in one form or another? Secret desires we rarely talk
  about because they might sound silly? As I started to write Twenty Wishes, I
  made up a completely new list of my own. I want to cuddle with my husband and
  reminisce about the years we’ve been together. I’d like to blow bubbles with
  my grandchildren and chase butterflies. I want to sing on Broadway. Okay,
  that’s carrying it a bit far, but one can dream…