Elf on the Shelf...

This year we started something fun for Kailey (and future children) at Christmas time. It is called "Elf on a Shelf."

It's meant to be a new Christmas tradition for your family. We've been participating since Thanksgiving and boy are we hooked!

Here's how it works. Mr. Elf comes to visit your home during the holidays. He watches over the home and reports back good deeds to Santa each night. The next morning he comes back and sits in a new location. Your kids get to search him out each day. Kailey LOVES this part! On Christmas Eve he returns to the North Pole and stays their until next year.

Here's how it goes at our house: every night before bed we read the book "Elf on the Shelf" and kiss Mr. Elf goodnight, then Kailey goes to bed, when she wakes up the first thing we do is hunt for the elf. She LOVES this part! We search high and low andHere's how it goes down at our house. Once we find the elf we kiss him good morning and go on with our day. I think as Kailey gets older she will better understand the idea that the elf reports back to Santa part, but for now she is enjoying hunting for him and reading the cute book.

We named our elf something special but for now we are keeping his name within our family.

Just another special touch to the Christmas season!

MERRY CHRISTMAS