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Christmas Stockings

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Family traditions are special to us and will likely continue for many generations. This is one that is special to us at Christmas Time.

 

 

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Christmas Stockings

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From the time I was about 3 years old until I was 18, every Christmas Eve we would hang our long red stockings with the white fuzzy tops close to our Christmas tree in hopes that Santa Claus would fill them with goodies when he stopped by to deliver our Christmas presents.

 

Old Santa never forgets to fill those stockings with goodies when he stops by to deliver the presents.

 

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My sister JerrylDine, my brother Craig, and I, would wake up early Christmas morning and run to the area of the Christmas Tree to see what old Santa had left us during the night. Each and every Christmas, old Santa filled our stockings with the same goodies as the first year he came. If nothing else, old Santa was predictable when it came stocking filling goodies at our house. Our stockings always had one coconut in the shell, one red Delicious apple, one seedless naval orange, several loose candy canes, one box of chocolate covered cherries, I box of mixed chocolates, and the rest was loose nuts in the shell including English Walnuts, Almonds, Pecans, Brazil nuts, and Hazel nuts. After we had ripped into all the presents old Santa had left and examined them closely, we went to work on that stuff in the stockings. Needless to say, we didn’t eat too much of the Christmas Turkey and Dressing Dinner my Mom always fixed.

 

 

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Old Santa always came to our house after Pam and I got married and our two lovely daughters were born. As I recall Santa was still fairly predictable when he filled our daughters stockings also as they got pretty much the same stocking fillers as our family did. I’m not sure, but I think he is still filling our grand children’s stockings with pretty similar stuff. I think it’s good that old fat man in the red suit keeps those family traditions going.

 

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Looks like old Santa came to see Ben and Sarah this last Christmas. Those stockings over the fire place look like they have been filled to the brim. I wonder what old Santa put in them.

 

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Looks like Sarah is getting into her Christmas Stocking. I see a coconut, candy canes, a pomegranate, M&Ms, hard candy, and a sack of nuts in the shells. Sarah still has about half a stocking to unload, so there’s a lot more goodies in there. Looks like the family tradition still lives.

 

 

 

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Thanks for reading Christmas Stockings,
Bill