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The Story of our Christmas Stockings
My Mother loved people and holidays. She especially loved Christmas.
Fifty nine years ago while pregnant with me, Mother had three Christmas stocking made for her boys. Stan the oldest and Scott the middle had their names on their stockings. Having yet been born and not knowing what my name would be, mine remains blank to this day.
When I brought Tammy, my high-school girlfriend, to our home for Christmas one year she was immediately taken by the tradition of the Christmas Stocking. Mother put together a stocking for her and years later had one custom made for her as well.
As sometimes happens to young love, Tammy and I broke up and I moved away. But each year my mother continued to prepare Tammy’s stocking and delivered it to her for Christmas. Tammy would return the empty stocking at the end of the Christmas season. In this way my Mother and Tammy remained connected and close.
My mother said that she kept giving Tammy a stocking because it meant so much to her and she was apart of her family, even if she wasn’t a part of mine.
Nine years later I received terrible news. My mother was dying of lung cancer. I called Tammy to break the news to her. She was devastated.
A few weeks later we all got together for breakfast at Waffle House on Virginia Avenue. It was as if we had never been apart. And we haven’t been since.
Mother died on December 1, 1993, at Cobb General Hospital where she served for twenty-three years, eventually becoming director of nursing. The Christmas stockings for that year were already prepared before she passed.
Since then we’ve continued the tradition. Tammy found a lady in Florida to reproduce stockings for our sons Grant and Carson.
What goes into the stocking isn’t as important as what the stocking says. Not on it mind you but through it. It says in some way, we’re family.
And that’s why I’ve sent this to you. Whether family, friend, client, or vendor, you are a part of our family and we’re immensely honored to have you in it.
And should you be one who happens upon this that we haven’t met yet, you too are a part of our family. You see we have thousands of family members we have yet to meet but are anxious to learn your story. Our lives are better when we know the lives of others.
Russian Tea Cakes
Ingredients
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup pecan chips (or any finelychopped nuts of your choosing)
1/4 teaspoon salt
Powdered sugar for rolling (2-3 cups)
Instructions
Heat oven to 400ºF.
Mix butter, 1/2 cup powdered sugar, andthe vanilla extract in a large bowl. Stir inflour, nuts and salt until dough holdstogether.
Cover dough with plastic wrap and chill for30 minutes up to overnight.
Let dough thaw until soft enough tohandle.
Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place about1 inch apart on a parchment-lined bakingsheet.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until set but notbrown. Remove from cookie sheet. Coolslightly on wire rack.
Roll warm cookies in powdered sugar; coolon wire rack. Roll in powdered sugar again.
Russian Tea Cakes
Ingredients
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup pecan chips (or any finelychopped nuts of your choosing)
1/4 teaspoon salt
Powdered sugar for rolling (2-3 cups)
Instructions
Heat oven to 400ºF.
Mix butter, 1/2 cup powdered sugar, andthe vanilla extract in a large bowl. Stir inflour, nuts and salt until dough holdstogether.
Cover dough with plastic wrap and chill for30 minutes up to overnight.
Let dough thaw until soft enough tohandle.
Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place about1 inch apart on a parchment-lined bakingsheet.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until set but notbrown. Remove from cookie sheet. Coolslightly on wire rack.
Roll warm cookies in powdered sugar; coolon wire rack. Roll in powdered sugar again.
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