Possibly, I'm Insane

“Everyone, stop,” said Miranda.  

Everyone paused in what they were doing to look at her.

“Matt.” Miranda pointed to the fireplace. “Where is your stocking?”

“Oh,” said Matt, and resumed trimming the tree. “I don’t have a stocking.”

The kids gasped.

“You don’t have a stocking?” shrieked Hailey.

“I…” Matt was bewildered.

“You need to have a stocking, Matt,” said Hailey.

“We all have stockings,” Kylie pointed out.

“Everyone in the family needs a stocking,” finished Miranda.

Matt looked at the stockings all in a row and thought how sometimes he still managed to forget: He had a family now.