I'm finally finishing up a few projects around here, one of them being Christmas stockings. Aaron's mom took great care to make each of her children a personalized stocking, and ever since our first Christmas as a married couple, Aaron has insisted that I do the same for our family. I finally got around to it this year (our 9th Christmas together), and spent a lot of time selecting fabrics I love. One is raw silk, one is a velveteen stripe, another a velour codurouy, etc... THEN, when they were complete, I proudly showed them to Aaron.
Aaron: "They look like they could have been purchased"
Me: "Thank you."
Aaron: "Don't get me wrong, I think they are beautiful, but when are you going to finish them? They're so fancy."
Me: "Aaron. They ARE finished...well except for our names. I can't decide whether I should embroider myself, or pay to have them monogrammed"
Aaron: "I don't think you understand. HOMEMADE stockings are supposed to LOOK home. made. These look like.... like just like they're NORDSTROM STOCKINGS."
two days later when I decided to speak to him again ;)...
Aaron: Soooo...."Why aren't there any bears or snowmen on them?"
Me: "What. (the kind of "what" that actually means "WHAT?!!!") What do you mean?! I hate sewing! I did this for you! You want bears? my BLOOD and SWEAT are on them, isn't that enough?"
Aaron: They're just so...NICE.
Me: "So you don't LIKE them because they're too nice? What does that even mean?...And how is it a problem?"
Aaron: "Well the reason I bugged you about wanting homemade stockings every year is because I wanted a stocking with that zig zag stuff on it"
Meg: "Ric-Rac?"
Aaron: "yes. And John had a bear, and I had a Santa, and Jana had an angel...etc etc.."
Of course! He wanted FELT stockings....with stuff on them...and probably a little glittery puff paint, and yarn. He didn't just want a homemade stocking all these years...he wanted HIS stocking. Or at least one like it.
I totally get the nostalgia.
Immediately, he went from being a jerk, to being cute and sentimental.
If only I'd known.
Miss-communication at it's finest.
Maybe someday, (like in another 9 years) I'll make another attempt, but, for now, he'll just have to enjoy our "Nordstrom Stockings".
8 comments:
Those are amazing! Well done. (Your story was awesome, too.) :)
LOL Just clip those stray threads and they really will look like Nordies stockings ;) You did a great job. Piece of poo stockings, indeed. Pay to have them monogrammed - you don't want to chance snagging the silk (and making them look...homemade). Hey, if they did snag, you could just hide the snag with rick rack!
or maybe a random snowman!
Yeah I know I need to clip the strays still. I'm just lazy.
Maybe in 9 years.
That is an awesome story. And I thought WE had cornered the market on mis-communication. That's a good one.
They're beautiful....I guess they just match your 'Yuppie' tree a little too well for Aaron! :P
Hilarious because Jared and I went through that last year....our first Christmas. We both went out on the same day and bough stockings....mine were beautiful from Target...his were the felt ones that came with puff paint and stickers for the names. I put my foot down.
LOL Too funny! All these man-boys and their nostalgic expectations!! So hard to keep up with.
I love your Nordstroms stockings and you know what those were his Nostalgic childhood memories. your kids will have memories of their own fabulous looking stockings that were so soft and mine was red and Q's was gold (or whichever) and I loved waking up christmas morning and finding my beautiful stocking all filled with presents... after all that's what makes stockings nostalgic anyway is that your special stocking always had special presents in it for you... right? That's why I loved my homemade ric-rac staocking and also why my kids stockings are so much classier than my moms :) I still love mine but there is no way I would hang my mothers stockings in my house!
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