Stockings

Today's prompt for Holidays in Hand relates to Stockings do we hang them? Do they have special meanings? traditions? contents?

So... our kids all have felt stockings with their names on them, made be me in time for their first Christmas (yes even Will's). We hang them on their door handles or on their beds and then Santa fills them up on Christmas Eve and leaves them on the ends of their beds. The stocking contents have been known to vary in size depending on the tidiness (or not) of the recipients bedrooms- I do wish Santa was a bit more of a hard arse in this respect though. :-)

On Christmas morning the kids come into our room (not before 6:30am or 7am if Will is still asleep- he's still in our room at the mo) and open the contents of their stockings and inhale the chocolate there within.

They always get Chocolates in the form of Santa's and gold coins and such and some other varied lolly supplies, a small can of Pringles chips and a new tooth brush. Then they get a mixture of stuff like mini bubble baths, glow sticks, and in Will's case rubber stamps and stickers and other little bits and bobs.

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