This is what that stocking looks like....
It wasn't long before the happy little family found out that there would be another wee baby coming and the lovely young lady decided that once again she would need to make a stocking for the newest baby... Christmas came and went and she didn't make a stocking but then spring came and the baby was born and all thoughts of magical stockings went right out of the lovely young lady's head. Suddenly the Christmas season was there and the lovely young lady was caught with her proverbial pants down. Here it was Christmas Eve and Santa would soon be here.... no fabric stores were open.... She felt terrible... but she had remembered that somewhere in her box of fabric there was a piece of satin that she had bought when Daughter #1 was born... would it be enough?! She whipped down to the basement of the new house they were living in and rummaged around in the box of fabric that she had dragged right across the country and that the dear boy had been ticked off to move... and there it was, the lovely piece of red satin... But she was worried... would there be enough. She tried the pattern for the stocking up against it and it wouldn't work. She was almost in tears. She thought that maybe she should give up her stocking for the new baby. Then the dear boy came along and saw her dilemma. They turned the stocking pattern this way and that way, and finally realized that if they turned it a certain way they could get the two halves but the front half would have a big hole in it. Well they were just about to give up when suddenly the lovely young lady got a brilliant idea! She could cut out the pattern with the big hole in the front and she would decorate it in such a way that she would cover the hole with the decorations.... Aaah! what a relief it was to have such a good idea.
She went to work straight away and when she was finished she had the perfect stocking for Daughter #2 that looked like this.....
And so it came to pass, that the magical stockings produced many delicious and funny things from them over the years at Christmas time and the whole little family was very happy.
Then one year the lovely young lady (who was starting to look like an old hag) and the dear young boy (who had absolutely no resemblance to a fresh faced youth any longer) decided once again to move to a new home... The new home was everything they ever wanted and so they moved. There was only one problem with their new house. It was small. But they had a huge shed where they could store all their Christmas decorations and Christmas things. So they took all the Christmas boxes into the shed to be stored till the following Christmas which was still a few months away.
Christmas rolled around and the young family took their Christmas storage boxes into the house and began to unpack all the fun things at Christmas time, that bring back memories and put a smile on everyone's face. At the bottom of the box stored, in tissue paper, were the magical stockings. The dear wife opened them up.... To hers, and everyone elses horror, they discovered that a mouse had chewed through the box and started eating Daughter #1's magical stocking. There was a great big hole in the stocking (and little black nasties stuck to it that we won't talk about)! Daughter #1 was devastated because her magical stocking was ruined. The mother said she would make a new one but the Daughter was so devastated that she would not have her stocking... the stocking that she had had since she was born, that the good mother said she would find a way to fix it up.
The good mother looked at the wrecked thing and wondered what in the world she could do with it.... Well the first thing she did was put on some rubber gloves and picked off all the little black nasties that were still stuck to it. Then she promptly put it in the hot water wash cycle of her washing machine and washed the hell out of it. Then she had a good look at what was left, since some of the decorations were in a sad state. And so she began. She sewed on new beads. She sewed on new stars. She repainted Daughter #1's real name on it. When the good mother had finished all that, she could not think how to fix the chewed hole. She darned it but it just looked terrible. She decided to decorate over the darned hole as if it had never been there just like she had done on the Daughter #2's stocking when she didn't have enough material. But with what could she decorate the hole?! Meanwhile the pet kitty was playing on the floor with a toy mouse that the good wife had gotten at the pet store and it suddenly dawned on her how to fix the hole.
She had more mice like the one the kitty was playing with... why not have a mouse living in Daughter#1's stocking?! She cut the mouse in half and glued the front half coming out the front of the mouse hole in the stocking. Then she glued a little candy cane to his front paws (that he, no doubt, has stolen from Santa, cheeky little blighter!) Then she glued the back half as if is coming out the back hole on the back of the stocking. The yellow felt is the door to his little mouse hole. The good wife was very happy with the result and so was Daughter #1! (Sorry to those who are not mouse friendly for this part of the story)!
And so it came to pass that now everyone in the happy little family remembers the year that the mouse chewed a hole through Daughter #1's stocking.... and the little white mouse lives as a reminder of all the good memories that the little family has shared at Christmas over the years.
Merry Christmas to you all from the happy little family including our little white mouse. And may you have many happy Christmas memories too!!
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