Day 275: If You're Going To Do It, Do It Right

Last night Fred, the stupid elf on a shelf, came back to our house for the holiday season. Commence another season of crawling into bed at 11pm and whispering "shit, I forgot to move the stupid elf!!" each night. 

And so you're probably like "well then why the hell do you even do the elf on a shelf?" The answer is, when your preschooler (the firstborn, 3 years ago) comes home from school and announces that all his friends have elves coming from the North Pole to live at their house and why don't we have one move into our house?!, you do what it takes. We will squeeze out believing in Santa until the last drop (at 7 and 5 we still have two believers), so if an elf is what it takes, so be it. 

Brad and I decided that Fred needed to come back with a bang, but I honestly wasn't ready to go big last night after black Friday shopping. So, Fred made a quiet appearance last night and brought a new Christmas shirt for each kid and a reindeer hat and a coloring book, and saved the BANG for tonight. 

Because if you're going to do the elf on a shelf, you might as well do it WELL. 

Try to find Fred the Elf! He's here somewhere...

And what kid doesn't want to come downstairs with Darth Vader standing in their living room holding a candy cane?! 

I keep staring at him over my laptop and laughing. 

Maybe we should just leave him inside. 

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