It’s the most wonderful time of the year!!! (When else do we get eggnog?!) Twinkling lights hang from every house (think Clark Griswold in Christmas Vacation), children stand in line for a chance to tell Santa their Christmas list, and presents pile up under the tree. We LOVE everything about this time of year – the food, festivities, and favorite holiday traditions!
Here at the Sock It to Me headquarters, we like to show a little love to our AMAZING team with our annual holiday party. We take over a small section of the warehouse and deck the halls – complete with a Charlie Brown Christmas tree! Then we enjoy a little potluck meal and bask in the fact that we survived yet another season of Christmas chaos (no small feat, mind you!). And to top off the celebration, we shower each other with presents during our office gift exchange.
The holiday party is an awesome way to kick off your shoes and relax after the last package has gone out, but even better than that is our annual Christmas card photo shoot! Our inspiration for this year’s post card came quite unexpectedly while we were setting up a couple of our mall kiosks. Matt, our GM, spied Santa’s Village and couldn’t resist bringing the team back for a little photo-op! (Good thing it was right after Thanksgiving, and the village was still vacant! Can you imagine all of the crying kids and screaming parents if we did it now?!) So in true Sock It to Me fashion, we snapped a few (somewhat Christmas-y) shots. Check them out!
So, now that we’ve told you a little bit about our traditions here at the Sock It to Me headquarters……we want to hear a little bit about YOUR favorite holiday tradition!
Drum roll, please…….
***Here are the HOLIDAY CONTEST DETAILS:
Everyone has them - whether it be decorating Christmas cookies, Christmas caroling around the neighborhood, an annual Tacky Holiday Sweater party, or sleeping as a family under the tree. We want to know about all of the fun traditions out there!
***Please send us a photo (or brief description) of your FAVORITE holiday tradition for a chance to win 3 Sock It to Me’s just in time for Christmas!
Here are the rules:
- Send a picture (new or old) of your favorite tradition to press@sockittome.com.
- The contest ends at midnight on Sunday, December 18th.
- The winner will be announced via Facebook and email on Monday, December 19th.
- Winner of the best tradition gets to choose 3 pairs of Sock It to Me’s!
‘Tis the season of giving, and our team at Sock It to Me has already been pounding the pavement, scouring the shelves for the PERFECT gifts for our loved ones. But, of course, we’ve run into the same, classic problem that every good shopper faces at one time or another — along the way, we’ve discovered many great items we’d like to add to our own Christmas lists. So just in case you were wondering what to get us for the holidays, we’ve compiled a small list of our most wanted holiday gifts this year!
Holiday Festivities = Holiday Feast!
In just a short week and a half, the holiday season will be in full swing, and we can barely contain our excitement – or our stomachs! Of course, the holidays just wouldn’t be the same without the whole she-bang, but when we really get down to it, our appetites trump all (because we obviously didn’t get enough at Thanksgiving!). The festive decorations, friends and family gatherings, gift exchanges, and annual traditions are just icing on the cake, but a holiday just isn’t really a holiday without the delicious treats!
Now that we’ve got your stomachs rumbling along with ours, we wanted to share some of our favorite holiday dishes. Maybe you can even add a couple to your meal plan! Make sure you send us an email at press@sockittome.com to let us know how it turns out! Or send in your own favorite holiday recipe for us to try out!
Matt‘s mom (or, I mean, Santa) kept it simple and sweet with his Christmas goodies. For more than 25 years (and, yes – he does still get a stocking every year from his mom), Matt receives a pound of Peanut M&M’s. Talk about a chocolate overload! We could be eating M&M’s for weeks! (Although, now that we think about it, that doesn’t sound too bad…)
Jacob‘s favorite holiday food is also pretty simple – although neither Santa nor his mom necessarily approve of his choice of snack. He has fond memories of the black olives his Grandma served as an appetizer (although we’re pretty sure his mom doesn’t remember these times quite as fondly). He would prance around the house with an olive on each finger until the entire bowl was gone- much to his mom’s dismay. What’s wrong with a little bad manners as long as you’re creating memories?! (But we sure do hope the tradition stopped in his childhood; it might not go over so well for a grown man to be sucking olives off of his fingers!)
While Matt’s devouring pounds of chocolate, Kisa is getting her lion’s share of sugar! For Kisa, Christmas and cookies have become synonymous, and her mom still mails her batches of her delicious, home-baked cookies every year. With dozens and dozens of holiday cookies – including chocolate crinkles, thumbprint cookies with homemade raspberry jam, seven layer bars, sugar cookies in holiday shapes, chocolate peanut butter cookies, and Russian teacakes (her favorite!) – it sounds like Cookie Heaven!
In true Sock It to Me form, Carrie‘s favorite holiday goodies comes more in the form of an adult beverage. As an added bonus, she’s not too picky either – pretty much any type of holiday-flavored drink will do, from Hot Toddy’s to eggnog. One of her all-time favorite though is hot cocoa with peppermint schnapps. Food isn’t the only way to a girl’s heart!
Amber‘s favorite holiday grub comes straight from the Aloha State! As a native Hawaiian, she loves to chow down on purple sweet potato casserole during the holidays! (Sounds so Hawaiian!) Check out the recipe for this scrumptious dish here: http://www.food.com/recipe/okinawan-purple-sweet-potato-pie-with-haupia-topping-359757. Feel free to mix it up a bit too! Amber suggests trading out the haupia with grated coconut and making it as a casserole instead of a pie. Let us know how it turns out!
Wishing you all a very merry holiday season, and a stomach full of an amazing holiday feast! Send us an email with your favorite holiday recipes that we can try out this year!