Our New Christmas Tradition

So first off this is my second time writing out my story, guess I did something wrong on my first one and it deleted (sigh) so not that you knew what I wrote the first time and so funny neither do I hahaha. I do suffer with some brain fog/memory loss with my fibromyalgia. Now to get to my story about our new tradition we started with our family, I will tell you how it went from great to bad to good. One year my son came home from school and he was talking about this Elf on The Shelf, I asked him what it was all about. He said that his friends have one and they are magic. So I left it at that, the next day I was looking into it and was reading that the Elf on the Shelf will come to life at night and moves from place to place, it reports to Santa every night and the kids can not touch them.

I was thinking to myself this is so stupid! Why would you want to make your kids believe in such nonsense, I don't want my child behaving good because there is an Elf watching him everyday and making him believe he is reporting to Santa every night, I want my child to be who he is, not be good because of an Elf but be good and behave because it's the right thing to do. So he kept on talking about it and I didn't say much. I asked some friends and my sister about the Elf on the Shelf and they were all doing it or were going to be starting with them, so I felt like now I need to look more into this and think about starting a Christmas tradition with my family since we didn't have one.

Let me just tell you all at first I really wasn't interested in this Elf on the Shelf because I didn't know what I was getting into, some lie for my child. But in spirit of Christmas and traditions, I thought this could do no harm as long as I did it my way and not use them as something to keep my child from behaving like an angel when they need a little messing around from time to time. This is so not like my first story guys but it's pretty similar lol, ok back to my story. So the day was coming up where the Elf on The Shelf would arrive and do you think I could find one, I went everywhere looking and finally I believe it was 2 days before I found one, thank goodness, my heart was racing. Now the day is here, it has arrived along with his Santa letter, oh my was he ever excited, you can see the sparkles in his big blue eyes.

Hot Chocolate's First Day On The Job!

My son came home from school and looked very surprised to see Hot Chocolate, he told me that he was supposed to go to bed first and then in the morning he would have to find him! OOPS! Am I messing up already with this Elf? So I said fast, well I went out today and when I came home I saw him stuck, I told him that he must have been looking around the house and getting to know all the rooms while no one was home, and my son was good with that story. Now bedtime is here and I didn't have to let him know, he was very excited to wake up and see his Elf the next day, so hey a plus for me on this part.

We had many fun mornings waking up to see what the Elf was up to, as the one coming up with things I was getting tired and had to get creative because I am not one who will just move them from one shelf to the next, I needed our Elf to be silly and fun. So yeah, just to let you parents know, start planning in advance because I didn't learn this till my first week was over and don't forget we have to do this when they are sleeping so I am hoping your child goes to bed early. So here are some pictures of our first week.