New Crayons

Yesterday I spent most of the day wrapping Christmas gifts for my grandchildren who live in Japan; I try to get their boxes of gifts wrapped and mailed early.  

As I was putting boxes of crayons into each stocking, I thought again about traditions and how important they become over the years.  

In our family the gift of a finding a new box of crayons in your stocking has been a tradition of ours since our son had his first Christmas back in 1970.  When he and his sister entered their twenties, I decided one year not to include crayons in their stockings, as I thought they had outgrown the gift.   Christmas morning I received a call from each one asking where the crayons were.  I was also told that our son had talked up the crayon tradition to his roommates, and that was the year I made stocking for all of them.  OOPS!  I promptly went out and bought crayons.  I haven't missed a Christmas since.