The stockings were hung by the chimney with care....
Above is our family room fireplace/mantel. (The stockings were new the year I took this photo; so please pardon the folds in them! :)
Christmas stockings are one of my favorite Christmas items, because they hold such happy memories for me.One of the Santa stockings pictured here is my childhood stocking. My mother bought a set of them years ago when we were little, and then recently gave them to my brother and me. I was fortunate to find a similar one at a yard sale, so that I can hang two of them together.

We always had an orange in the toe of our stocking. That was a tradition that my mother brought from her own childhood. Back in those days, their stockings held fruit or nuts, and that was their Christmas present.

I am so excited that it will soon be time to hang these stockings once again!!