The Baby’s Stocking

Hang Up the Baby’s Stocking

by Emily Huntington Miller

Hang up the baby’s stocking.
Be sure you don’t forget!
The dear little dimpled darling,
She’s never seen Christmas yet!
But I’ve told her all about it,
And she opened her big blue eyes,
And I’m sure she understood it —
She looked so funny and wise

So begins a poem I adored as a child. I think I even memorized it but I can’t be sure about that because I was only 5 years old my sister’s first Christmas. Could I really have been that clever? Possibly!
I adore my sister more every year and posting a reminder of this poem from our childhood is my way of saying to her “Thanks for being such a wonderfully ‘funny and wise’ little sister.” (Not to mention my webmaster and tech support extraordinaire.)

Merry Christmas, Janet.