St. Nick's Day

Happy St. Nicholas Day!  This was a day that always snuck up on me as a kid and teenager.  I'd be surprised one morning to find that St. Nick had arrived overnight.  I was actually kind of worried that, as a Mom, I'd fail at it...that all of a sudden, it would be noon on Dec. 6 and I'd realize I never did anything about St. Nick.  Now, we are only 2 years in, but I'm not worried about it anymore...I've been so excited to plan the gifts that SweetHeart was getting from St. Nick, I couldn't possibly have forgotten.

St. Nick brings our SweetHeart a few things every year to help her get into the Spirit of Christmas.  Last year, she got her stocking, a board book of Bible stories, and a board book that told the story of Christmas.  This year, she got her very own Nativity Set (by Little People) and the book that goes with it.

I think my hope that having her own Nativity will keep her away from mine is probably a little unrealistic, but hopefully it will help!

You may notice that we have shoes out instead of stockings.  In the area of the country that we live in, stockings are the usual way and DH thinks it's weird that my family has always used shoes, but that's the old German tradition and I want to continue to pass it on.  We save our stockings for Christmas!