This picture was taken in about 1970. We are living in the parsonage on Alabama Avenue. Here's a fun fact about those stockings that Susan and Steven are holding. They are made of a lightweight plastic and the white cuff is a puffy quilted plastic. There is a candy cane trim around the edges and our names are written in permanent ink on the outside. The stockings came with a chalk pen that was used to write a "wish list" for Santa on the outside of the stocking. Certainly Santa would see the lists on Christmas Eve as he filled our stockings hanging from the mantle above the fireplace. The thing is this. Those stockings were first used in the mid 1950's and this picture was taken at least fifteen years later. Plastic stockings hold up well IF you take care of them. And, we did!! (I believe I still have mine although it has been hidden in a storage box for years. Shame on me. Perhaps it's time for a retro remix.) Anyway, this is a very nice picture of my sister and brother captured on a Christmas morning long ago (yet, in my memory, not so long ago.) merry, merry
I have mine somewhere too! Those stockings were missing for several years and remember one day we were looking in some old boxes and found them again. Mom wasn't very happy that they were "in the picture again" because she thought we had outgrown them. But they were revived. :)
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