New England Holidays

For the last five years, I've been having a blast showering my nephews and niece (and now soon to be nieces) with the great holiday gifts from L.L. Bean.  Personalized needlepoint stockings, monogrammed boat and tote bags, and their kids holiday gifts (wooden sleds, radio flyer walkers and trikes, etc.).  After all this time, now it's actually and finally time to start thinking about buying these things for our own kids. 

I'm looking at the new gingerbread stocking for baby girl and the train stocking for baby boy (like his big cousin Ben has).  My sisters and I all had/have homemade personalized knit stockings growing up (each with a different design) and they are much more fun than the classic but plain damask ones we have from Restoration Hardware.



And now they sell tandem sleds!  Isn't it the cutest?!  The question is do I need it or does my sister (w/#4u5 on the way)?  I guess that would be a way to get the single sled back... ;)

And even though now I live far away, and am ironically confined to bed, I'm following along (electronically) with and remembering my now so long ago runway days at Boston Fashion Week, which as they say is "wicked smaht".