They haven't done this in awhile. It was a surprise this morning to see these pictures and their shenanigans. They must have been busy while I was at Curves last evening.
As for the stockings - next year, for sure, they'll get their heirloom stockings. If I write that down it will happen, right? Brian hasn't complained at all about his duct tape version - I was certain there'd be some spunking going on, but no. Relief!
Pa and Allan are to get credit for these. They made Brian's a couple years ago after feeling sorry for the poor boy. They wrote on it, tempory stocking. Neither of them real good spellers, but they had seen me working on his stocking and knew (thought) there was hope.
It's our Allan who gave up hope when it got to Mark's stocking. In his humor and with his black marker he wrote - not so tempory. Ha.Ha.Ha. He also knew by this time that tempory was spelled incorrectly, but it was part of the joke so it had to be done that way.
If nothing else, it's a funny family story - as if we're short on those around here
As for the stockings - next year, for sure, they'll get their heirloom stockings. If I write that down it will happen, right? Brian hasn't complained at all about his duct tape version - I was certain there'd be some spunking going on, but no. Relief!
Pa and Allan are to get credit for these. They made Brian's a couple years ago after feeling sorry for the poor boy. They wrote on it, tempory stocking. Neither of them real good spellers, but they had seen me working on his stocking and knew (thought) there was hope.
It's our Allan who gave up hope when it got to Mark's stocking. In his humor and with his black marker he wrote - not so tempory. Ha.Ha.Ha. He also knew by this time that tempory was spelled incorrectly, but it was part of the joke so it had to be done that way.
If nothing else, it's a funny family story - as if we're short on those around here
it's things like this that they will always remember, and even pass down to your grandkids!
Posted by: sue Treiber | December 17, 2008 at 02:38 PM
We never had stockings when I was a kid- we just went and found dad's biggest wool work sock, pinned a piece of paper on it with our name and laid it over the back of the couch.
I don't feel one bit gyped by it either- the story goes that my oldest brother (18 or so years older than me) took a holey sock one year and then put a pot underneath it to catch whatever came out the toe- hoping Santa wouldn't realize why his stocking wasn't filling up : )
traditions are traditions, and they don't have to be conventional!
I'd quit trying to get those last two stockings done, and enjoy the story as it is!
Posted by: jan | December 17, 2008 at 03:21 PM
HEY that's actually not a bad idea, my girls don't have stockings either, so i suppose i could just do that. I'm sure they would last longer than the dollar store one's.
Posted by: Leah | December 17, 2008 at 09:03 PM
:o)
Posted by: tania | December 17, 2008 at 10:25 PM