A young widow's daughter is given a tattered old Christmas stocking at a holiday craft sale, but her mother is skeptical of its magic when it seems to create small trinkets on its own.
It's been three years since Doug Monroe died during the lead-up to Christmas. His widow, Lindsey Monroe, a planner with the Township of Gilford, has been reluctant to do Christmas ever since as Doug was an integral part of the Monroe family Christmas routine. Lindsey, who has not been able to put Doug behind her, is finally able to put up Christmas decorations this year for the first time since Doug's death. Their now-preteen daughter Hannah is excited to have the Christmas spirit in the house again if only in this small way. Hannah is desperately wishing for and expecting a puppy for Christmas, something that Lindsey does not want to oblige for reasons she has not told Hannah. This Christmas season at her work, Lindsey must deal with Mayor Fred Barnes' supposed pet project: rebuilding the long-gone gazebo in the town square exactly as it was, to be completed in time for the historic Christmas-Eve town lighting. He has hired Scott Terrell, new to Gilford, to build the gazebo. The problem is that there are no records of the old gazebo itself. While Lindsey believes any gazebo will do with the primary goal of getting it done for the lighting ceremony Scott is determined to build the gazebo exactly as it was. While attending a Christmas bazaar at the church, Hannah is given a Christmas stocking by one of the bazaar merchants, an elderly woman no one seems to know. When Hannah hangs the stocking on their fireplace mantel, inexplicable things begin to happen to her, Lindsey, and Lindsey's exuberant mother Donna Chastain that bring more and more Christmas spirit back into their lives. Hannah and Donna start to believe that the stocking has magical Christmas-spirit-returning powers, and Hannah receiving the stocking was absolutely no accident. Lindsey, who admits that she is attracted to Scott but isn't ready for a new relationship, requires a stronger miracle to make her believe in the stocking's Christmas spirit.—Huggo
Able carpenter-contractor Scott Terrell returns to his ancestral township Gifford to restore the gazebo-kiosk built by his grandfather when he was the mayor. The municipal executive supposed to supervise him, widow Lindsey Monroe, cares only for the timing in view of an impending festival, but Scott is determined to get every detail right, so he waits for missing original plans or specifications. In the meantime, he volunteers to restore an antique desk new to the Monroes' home. Lindsey's reluctance to celebrate Christmas her late husband's way is finally overcome by her teen daughter Hannah with help from Scott and from Lindsey's meddling mother Donna Chastain, both of whom also help Hannah adopt a lost puppy and match Scott with Lindsey, while the mayor gets to date and win back Donna in the eventful process. Somehow a Christmas stocking which Hannah got from a mysterious crone at a seasonal market magically nudge the family over and over.—KGF Vissers
Lindsey, a single mom with an adorable daughter, is closed off to life after losing her husband a few years back. When she buys a stocking at her town's Christmas craft fair, the family begins "magically" finding items in the stocking that they learn have importance in their lives.
