Mommiedom

We don't have "official" elves on the shelves. I am not the crazy to spend that kind of money and I know my kids would not be able to resist touching them.

Our Elves had a crazy and wild ride here. One lost both eyes and had to have eye surgery while the other had an arm nearly ripped off, wear to the neck and of course fell into the toilet after someone decided he needed to poop mints (by the way- the mints dissolve in the toilet over the course of the night but the elf placer ignored that warning).

So tonight the head back to the North Pole and the kids bid them farewell. Have to say I don't hate them nearly as much as I did last year. A little planning goes a long way and I am proud to say I only really forgot one time (waking at 2am and shooting out of bed).

Here are all the Elves antics over the time they were here.

Today is the third day of the Elves. My mom got them Advent Calendars so I had them wrapped and had the elves up pick them up in Wisconsin over night.

We are already telling the boy he needs to be good because the elf is watching a reporting to Santa. I feel a tad guilty but if it works that would be great.

I have actually been working a digital scrapbook for the kids to stick all the  pictures in of the Elves goings and doings. I figure when it is all over, I will have it printed so they can look through it over the year. I am hoping it will help with not missing them to much!

So today's installment is what the Elves did to Dad's bug. I had the antlers for awhile and said they were for the minivan but really didn't know how they got on the VW bug. Is the bug not the cutest thing!

The morning after Thanksgiving is reserved for the arrival of the Elves.  My daughter wrote the sweetest letter to Santa asking for her Elf Herman to come back and she wanted to make sure that her little brother also got an Elf from the North Pole. His Elf is Eddie!

So when they woke up Friday morning, the Elves had arrived. They brought breakfast and mugs for hot cocoa. The kids were so excited and the elves went every where with us that day. We don't believe that if you touch them they lose their magic because there is no way my kids could keep their hands off of them.