A New Job for the Elf on the Shelf

By Blythe

After unpacking our holiday decorations this year, I realized we were becoming overwhelmed by Christmas countdown activities. Cute felt magnet calendar? Check. Elf on the Shelf? Check.  Chocolate Advent Calendars? Check x 2. (Grandma and Mom each bought one.) I also wanted to try a daily holiday activity calendar and, inspired by the jillions of great ideas on Pinterest, put together some simple numbered envelopes containing an activity for each day until Christmas.

And then I realized that we were going to have to consolidate something or no one would remember to do any of these things at all.

So, our elf became the messenger for our holiday activity envelopes. Each morning, my four-year-old jumps out of bed to find the elf and to see what Santa has instructed in his note to us, delivered via Elf Express. Yesterday we took goofy photos in our Santa hat, and today we baked some cookies. One night we almost forgot and went to bed without putting together a puzzle per Santa's instructions, and when I said maybe we could just do it the next day my child said, "No! If we don't finish the job Santa sent us today, we won't get a new one tomorrow!"

I just hope Santa tells us to take Mama shoe shopping one of these days.

{Photo credit: amazon.com}

Comments

[Justin Bieber Shoes]

She finally got in to see her Wonder Therapist (not Cindy, but Cindy has hired someone else with the same training), and now she's doing pretty fine -- or at least much better than before. So, she says, hopefully she will get back to the sweater, but it turns out she is quite a bit more busy with work than she thought she would be for December. It's all good. More work for her means more toys and treats for me, plus it makes her happy.

[Dani]

I love this! SUCH a good idea.