How many of you have an Elf on the Shelf? I'm sure you have heard of them, as they are pretty hard to miss. Seems like more and more people invite elves to live in their houses every Christmas. Now, the idea of the Elf on the Shelf is that Santa sends him or her to your house to watch you at Christmas time. Each night the Elf flies back to the North Pole and reports to Santa whether you've been good or bad that day. I guess Santa has gotten too old and slow to watch all the kids by himself ;) However, I really didn't want to use our elf as a way to make my children behave. Come December 26th, when the elf went back to the North Pole to stay the rest of the year, all hell would probably break loose. LOL But my creative spirit knew that our family could create some wonderful memories with this little elf, so I caved and got one.
Our first task was to give him a name. Ours is real original: Elfie. Now Elfie is a curious little elf, and he seems to be quite busy getting into things while we are fast asleep. I'm not quite sure how we don't hear him, while he is taking part in all those shenanigans. HeHe!
Here's what he's done so far this year:
