It's the Holiday Season! (No matter how obscure)

My mom loved to celebrate holidays - decorations, activities, everything. My husband once told me that we had a holiday for every day of the year. Mom replied that she would feel complete when she had Groundhog Day dishes.

However, one legitimate holiday she liked to celebrate came from her German heritage (several other countries have similar traditions.) Every year, on December 5th, we put our shoes outside the doors of our rooms and looked forward to the ornament and candy that St. Nicholas would fill them with the next morning. The ornament might be from a series we had already started, or something that tied into an activity or sport we enjoyed the previous year, or just something that, "looked like you." 

By the time we left home, we had our own collection of keepsake ornaments to start our own trees. My parents kept up the tradition by sending ornaments, wrapped in brown paper with straw accents (St. Nicholas comes on a horse, and Mom figured it was hungry.) We were only allowed to open them on December 6th, when they would have been in our shoes if we were home

My question for you: What is your favorite ornament? Feel free to attach a picture if you have one.

Information on the origin and stories surrounding St. Nicholas can be found here