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Comments:
jaycei - 2005-12-06 22:04:40
I love the story about your family stockings. Very cute!
I know family traditions are hard to break, but you and Kent will make your own ones, maybe without recognizing it at first, and new things will eventually become old tradition.
Your post put me more in the holiday spirit!
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Jecca - 2005-12-07 10:24:36
One of the ways I knew dating I. was right was that our Christmas traditions were so similar -- although this will be the first Christmas we actually spend together. And eggnog IS gross! I never met anyone else who felt that way -- I thought it was just me.
Your stockings are awesome, and your Aunt Peg sounds great. What a neat lady. An apartment in the city -- so glamorous!
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Jessica - 2005-12-07 11:07:03
This post was great! Just last night, I threw a raging FIT because my boyfriend did not understand the seriousness that is the season's first viewing of "A Charlie Brown Christmas," and was not interested in watching it with me. Why, oh why, was it not dropeverything MEANINGFUL to him?!!? Doesnt he know that Charlie Brown represents all that is good and genuine about Christmas?!?! The panic inducing thoughts immediately began: Oh God, he'll never get me!! What am I doing? How can we possibly have a future together!? We're SOOOO different!! He'll never GET ME!... WAAH!
So - I totally get where you're coming from. Holidays/traditions are tricky when combining two different lives..
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Emilie - 2005-12-07 11:12:36
Eggnog is nasty.
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Elizabeth - 2005-12-07 11:33:37
Stocking Worthy!!!!!! love it--
and so glad you hate eggnog-- give me all yours cause I lurve it-- the smell of pine and the taste of nog-- that makes it all come together for me
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Caroline - 2005-12-07 12:14:44
Also not a fan of eggnog.
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Sarcomical - 2005-12-07 14:12:54
whew. i was getting very nervous there when you said you couldn't find this very important stocking! after reading all about it i had grown quite attached. ;)
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whoorl - 2005-12-07 15:31:11
Molly, your stockings look EXACTLY like my family stockings.
I am going to take a photo over Christmas and email it to you...
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hannah - 2005-12-07 15:51:56
My mom needlepointed all our stockings and keeps mine. I think she knows I am likely to come home for Christmas just for that reason.
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JennB - 2005-12-07 15:54:03
My mom actually lost our stockings when SHE moved... I started knitting stockings last year, because of our impending daughter's birth, but my MIL - she must have had a stroke of wisdom or at least a stroke - knows this lady who can knit like your great aunt did so she got us these ENORMOUS personalized stockings. And they stretch. Prior to the new ones, I was taking my husband's felt, plastic-toy and glitter decorated stocking that you could fit exactly one candy cane in - and tie a bag with his goodies to it. The knitted stocking is far superior.
And my husband HATES holidays... he's finally learning to like them. I just wonder what his family did to him to make him so apathetic about them. I'm working on him, though. And I've told him he has to figure out a way to love them because of the kid.
Eggnog - meh.
John Denver & the muppets, the christmas mini pecan pies that my mom makes only this time of year, the real tree, the tasteful decorations, the roast beef, the christmas carols = so much fun and wonderfulness.
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Cassandra - 2005-12-08 01:09:34
I loved this entry, Molly! We are starting our own traditions together this very year (since we just got married in October). At home, my family has quilted stockings that my mom embroidered our names into, a felt tree skirt that was her mother's, and an embroidered angel tree-topper that I helped make when I was about 10... I have none of these things - yet - but I have replicated the electric candles in the windows, John Denver and the Muppets, and we're looking for the perfect tree-topper. C warmed my heart when he asked if we could fill each other's stockings, although we need to determine what to do for stockings. NOT Pottery Barn. (One thing that pains me is that the tree is fake, but given that we're going away for 2 1/2 weeks starting January 2, that's the way it's got to be. Because the Christmas tree stays up until the Epiphany. Dammit.)
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gorillabuns - 2005-12-08 08:40:03
i can totally see wondering why did i marry this person when you simply have nothing in common on the christmas rituals. stockings are a very big deal in my family and my husband and his family stockings - well, they're lost in space.
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quinn - 2005-12-08 11:19:01
It's a good thing our family doesn't have a handmade stocking tradition, since it would crush me to have the spouse lose, damage or simply unappreciate his. Last night I finally had an evening to get the ornaments on our tree. My husband "shared the moment" (his words) by sitting in a recliner across the room, reading his magazine. I guess we've started our own holiday tradition.
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Julie - 2005-12-08 17:29:23
My MIL has stockings for each of us (including my husband's and his twin's childhood ones that she made) that she BRINGS WITH HER to Christmas gatherings. (We are not allowed to have our stockings, lest one get lost, you see.)
In my family, sad to say, stockings were rather fungible. It was the Christmas ornaments and decorations that attained secondary meaning. My mother made me several stockings over the course of my life. One was red with a sequined snowman. The best one was like four feet long and a foot wide. My brother, who is nine years younger than me sort of inherited that one, you know, cause the littlest kid gets the biggest loot, and mom made me another girly stocking made of red moire taffeta. Very pretty.
At my house, David, the dogs, and I each have our own stockings hung by the chimney with care, and I don't know that I will ever be able to replace any of them. David and I have been using our stockings since our very first Christmas together. I bought them in 1999, right after we'd first begun dating, knowing that we'd get married and they'd be our matching stockings in our house. And they ARE! They are both red velvet, and mine has sequined Christmas lights on it and his has sequined ball ornaments on it! The dogs' stockings have dogs on them. You know, cause they're the dogs' stockings.
Yay! I love talking about stockings, even though mine are technically a Molly Sacrilige.
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Alison - 2005-12-08 18:17:00
While reading I was thinking of my own stocking, made by my Nana and closely guarded at her house all year until we arrive. I was wondering when/if my boyfriend will be deemed stocking-worthy and if my brother's fiancee will receive one this year, nodding my head at your concern for those who do not have their own special stocking. Imagine my surprise when I got to the picture--my shock was so great that I spontaneously came out of lurkerdom. We have the very same stocking, mine minus the beading.
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PaintingChef - 2005-12-13 13:03:48
OH. MY. GOSH. Same stocking story. Made with care and love by my grandmother. Same pattern. Being the first grandchild, mine is roughly 7 times the size of any others on the mantle. The hanging of the stockings was its own blessed and special event in the Christmas preparations and had its very own night. Thanks for sharing, makes me feel a little more normal...
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