Stocking #6

I was just chatting on the phone with my mother about Christmas details. She mentioned that she had purchased new Christmas stockings for the entire family because she wasn't able to find one for my brother's new fiancee that matched our old ones. Then, she threw in, "I bought six of them, so that someday your significant other can match, too."

My parents' blind optimism on this subject never ceases to amaze me. It's very endearing. I hope they realize that that sixth stocking might sit in the box for a very long time to come.