
Christmas Day highlights: launching yourself at a pile of gifts under the tree, demolishing a festive lunch, and waking up to find a stocking straining with gifts at the foot of your bed — not in that order.
Christmas stockings may have originally been designed to delight kids (and keep them in bed for a bit longer on such an exciting day, to the relief of parents), but along with advent calendars, they’re a tradition many big kids — aka grown-ups — have refused to leave behind.