Christmas Details #1

Our Christmas was great.  So much to say.
For starters...I decorated with new stockings!  What a relief to finally have a set of 6 stockings!  I love them!  (Thank you Nana!)

(L to R:  Jason, Bebe, Sumner, Sawyer, Dixie, & me)
And with this set up everything is perfectly
symmetrical and satisfies my OCD issues.

I chose to put our names in green on them and I think they turned out great!  They are cheery and yet simple.
There is a looong back story to finally getting these stockings.  So while I have your attention...Years ago after Bebe was born I found 3 lovely needlepoint stockings with a Christmas-y design befitting each person.  Santa on rooftop for Jason, a snowgirl for me, and a gingerbread house and gingergread cookies for Bebe.  I had the awesome forethought to buy another one with a reindeer on it that I thought would perfect for another child that we might have someday.  Especially for a boy.  Lo and behold, a few Christmases later we had a little boy who needed a stocking!  Perfection.  Then we decided to have another baby and so the search began for a needlepoint stocking.  I searched the stores.  I searched the Internet. But to no avail.  The ones I was looking for did NOT have the space on top designated for personalization...which almost all do these days.  Mine also had more of a 3D effect or crewel work maybe...I'm no needlepoint or embroidery expert fo' sho.  Either way, I made do for 2 years while I searched each holiday season.  Then when we added baby #4 I let the kids use the original four stockings while Jason and I reverted back to stockings from our childhood.  That worked, but I still wanted to have a matching set of six.  So after complaining for like 4 years that I could not find them and the stores would not stock them anymore...my gracious, dear, kind MIL bought me a set for Christmas!  Hip Hip Hooray!  (I think she was tired of hearing me bring up the stocking search every year! ha ha)  Ah...my life is complete.

Making our Christmas reindeer.

This is a random shot of Sass.  She was putting the baby Jesus (from our manger scene) down for a nap.  She would lay beside him and put her hands up to her eyes and in a tee-tiny voice...."sweet baby Jesus seeping (sleeping)".