Dec 19 2010
My Christmas Stocking

Christmas is right around the corner and with that comes all sorts of traditions. The tradition that I pull off with the most consistency is that I put off shopping until the very end but this year I’m planning to do it early – on the 23rd I hope.

My little sister is in town from Denver this weekend and it has been really nice to see her. I have 3 sisters and a brother and Amy lives in Denver and Lisa lives in Austin. Kathleen, Colin, and I are here in Tucson. Our age order is as follows: Kathleen, Lisa, Me, Amy, Colin. I’m right in the middle.

My mom loves Christmas and loves to decorate her house for the occasion. She collects nativity sets. She has a dozen or so displayed this year but I be she has 3 or 4 times as many. She hangs the stockings we have been using since we were kids. As we have gotten married she has stitched our spouses names onto the stockings. My unique stocking became a topic of discussion at my mom’s house over the weekend and I cannot deny that it is funny looking. Can anybody tell from looking at these pictures which of the 5 of us is divorced? Look closely now – it’s not too obvious.

My mom did have to remove and restitch a name before for one of my siblings that has been married twice and it worked fine. In my case, I was married so long that when the stitches came out they had stained the white fabric red so the stitches were gone but the name was not. So – now I get a bonus bow on mine.


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