Meet “Elf"

If you haven’t heard of the “Elf on the Shelf” family tradition/activity, I’d highly recommend you look into it for next year! This is our first year doing it and it has been fun.

Some very dear and thoughtful friends of mine gifted us with this new tradition. And, we are very thankful as it has helped to start each day on a good note during the very tough weeks leading up to one of my favorite holidays – Christmas.

Long story short… Santa sent us this elf, along with a story book to explain his role in our home during the holidays. The story book explains things like how you have to choose a name for your elf. And, being that my kids are super-duper creative they chose the most perfect name, “Elf”. We also learned that we can talk to Elf, but Elf can’t talk to us. We can’t touch Elf… because if we do, he can’t fly back to the North Pole every night to tell Santa whether we’ve been naughty or nice.

Every morning when Elf flies back into our house, he chooses a different location in the house to watch us from. This is where a lot of the fun comes in. Dan & I have sort of been competing over good hiding spots. He'll hide Elf one night. I'll hide Elf the next. And, every morning, the kids get really excited to run around the house and find Elf.

Rocco will say “Elf shelf” or "Elf watching!" whenever he sees Elf. Gabby asks a lot of questions, like "WHY can’t Elf talk to us?", and "WHY does he fly back to the North Pole EVERY night".

Can you find Elf?