It’s that time of year again and our elf, Ralph, has been busy with his Christmas shenanigans. In the weekend he caught a dinosaur.
And a couple of nights before that he borrowed my wife’s brassiere and used it as a hammock.
He’s not all mischief though. Sometimes he can be quite helpful. Yesterday we woke up to find that he’d cooked the kids breakfast.
However, his helpfulness was short-lived.
This is only the second year Ralph has been visiting us (prior to that I’d never even heard of elves on shelves) and I have to say that the notes he writes each morning have been reasonably successful in modifying our children’s behaviour in the lead-up to the Christmas school holidays (well, all except for last night, when one of the twins decided to do a ‘Mike Tyson’ on his brother’s ear!) But despite that hiccup and being hot and bothered by some extreme early summer weather, they’ve all tried hard to be a little bit nicer to each other since he arrived on the scene.
Do you have an elf on the shelf? If you do, I’d love to know what your elf has been up to. Let me know in the comments.
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