Holiday Cheer

It's that time of year where people start to prepare for their holidays. First it starts with Thanksgiving, then Christmas preparations, Christmas Eve, Christmas, and the New Year celebrations. I love getting into the spirit of the holidays, and always brings back some memories for me.

One of the things that is a defining item in my holiday is my stocking. It is special because every member on my mom's side of the family all contains the SAME stocking. My mom's aunt has been making these stockings for as long as I can remember. My mom and her sisters, her parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and many extended relatives all have the same stocking.

Now that I am engaged and starting some of my own traditions with my fiance, I was trying to find a way to encorporate him into the stocking tradition. My great aunt has a house at the beach and spends her summer on the beach making these stockings among other knit items. Before the summer started, I asked my great aunt to make a stocking for my fiance so that he could be a part of our tradition. I wasn't really sure how it was going to work with my stocking at my parent's house...but I wanted him to have his own part of the tradition.

Well, little did I know, my fiance wanted the same thing for me. However, he wanted to start the tradition in our house, but didn't want me to have to take my stocking from my parent's house. He therefore asked my great aunt to make one for me to have in our house.

The day after our engagement celebrations, my mom came out and gave BOTH of us a stocking. We were both confused at how there were two, until we realized that we did the same thing for each other.

I guess great minds do think alike and now we can encorporate a special tradition of my familys' holiday in our own house.