by Donna McBride
My husband Mikel’s dad, George, was known for his love of Stetson cowboy hats. His attitude was: “You could never have too many.”
It was no surprise that it was always an easy gift for him at the holidays. And a hat box was pretty predictable in size and weighed next to nothing. So, one year the family decided to put a big old ugly painted rock in the box to try to fool George.
It didn’t work, but soon the rock started finding its way to other members of the family in their presents.
Between one Christmas to the next, we’d forget who ended up with the rock, which always makes it a mystery to who will end up with it the next year.
George passed away back in 2003, but the tradition is still going strong through 50 years and four generations of McBrides!
