We spread our Christmas out the week after Christmas with visiting the family in NC and then even a little more with our stockings around Old Christmas. This is a tradition from my family growing up. We usually opened them around Old Christmas (January 6th). We are doing the same in our family now. Brent's Mom gave me all the stockings for Christmas one year with our names on them too and she added Bethany's stocking this year.
Between Rachel's birthday and Bekah being sick it was actually even the week after Old Christmas before we got our stockings open this year. We don't have a mantle or fireplace in our house so we have a stocking staircase instead.
Bekah was helping me carry the stockings for all the family.
Stockings for us are a time to stock up on small new things they need like new hairbrushes (color coded because someone's hairbrush always seems to be lost these days) or fun small things like favorite candy and new toothpaste to go with it!
The big girls got new favorites, sparkly nail polish!
Rachel and Bekah even surprised us as they had colored pictures and made ornaments for us and slipped them in our stockings too.
We had a fun time stretching out our Christmas a little with our stockings this year.
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