When Bob Got a Stocking

Bob was only 3 months old for his first Christmas in 1955. It was on Christmas Eve that it occurred to his Grandma, Myrtle Marion Cooper, that Bob's parent's may have been so busy with their young family and new baby and the business that they didn't have time to get him a Christmas stocking. She went through her scraps of fabric and found some red fabric to make a stocking and some fur to be it's trim and she had some glitter to write his name and she made him a stocking decorated with a little snowman. Then, so she wouldn't inconvenience Bob's parents, she called a cab. She came over by taxi to bring baby Bobby a stocking. It turns out this wasn't necessary because sister Joyce had already gotten Bobby a stocking with his name embroidered on it. Both stockings are well loved treasures we use as decorations.