A Christmas concert performed by a local symphony orchestra followed by holiday shopping in a rundown small town mall was the date that changed everything. With our purchase of cheese balls from Hickory Farms and two knit Christmas stockings from Dillard's, I knew that all my future Christmases would be spent with my date and many more Christmas stockings would be added over the years. Four stockings have been added to our hearth, and this year, we hung our original knit stockings for the fifteenth time.
