“Yes, Mom, and I need to know the truth.” I didn’t answer her question but rather said, “The elves are a part of the magic of Christmas.” “Do you move the elves at night?” she asked.
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With her father 30,000 feet in the air away on a business trip, I had to make a quick decision on how to respond. She was insistent her brother not be anywhere near us when she asked the question and so I tucked him in one last time and went into a quick panic about how to answer the question I knew she was about to ask. This wasn’t a joking matter to her and she needed the truth. And there have been plenty movies that explain why there are many Santas in this world, but a stuffed doll coming to life every night – after being lifeless without an eye blink all day? That’s a bit of a stretch.Ī few days after leaving her note, I was tucking my daughter in and she told me she had a very important question to ask. Sure, Santa is a little difficult to believe because of the whole flying in the sky on a sled filled with toys for millions of kids, but he’s a living, breathing human – at least at the mall or on the tree farms. Or take note of the pictures that shows a parent waking up at 5am in sheer panic because they forgot to move the elf.This will be you one day! Sure as, new parents, the Elf on the Shelf sounds fun and cute and the Facebook posts will surely get you excited to bring home an elf to your child, but read the posts from the parents who halfway through December are dreading moving the elf one more time. What mattered is they didn’t take this note.
I tried to tell her that the elves don’t always take the note, in fact, just last week she had left a note asking the elves to read her report card and they didn’t take it. She left the elves a note but never told my husband or I and today, the note still sat. On this particular morning, after my kids found the elves, my daughter came barreling into my bedroom.
They always tell us when they leave notes, well, almost always. The kids often leave letters for the elves in the envelope. We’ve been into the Elf on the Shelf for a while, in fact, we have two: a childhood friend bought my kids a life-size elf that hangs on the wall and holds a giant envelope (his name is Eddie just like one of our elves.).
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