We don't start to put up decorations before the 15th of December. Then they stay up until Jan. 6th, little Christmas. When I was a child, we all hung our stockings and went to bed and Santa brought the tree along with the gifts. Guess I'm still pretty much stuck in that age.[/quote]
Pats8e8.......you mentioned about the stockings being hung..we also, as children, hung them from the mantel on Chrtstmas eve.
.........but on December 5th..we would go, with all the cousins, to our grandparents and hang the stockings for the December 6th arrival of St. Nicholas........a German tradition.
Two sets of stockings when we were kids...weren't we the lucky ones
MaryJane