![]() ![]() More of my friends jump onto the elf bandwagon and I am left feeling like a total jerkface because I refuse to start a tradition I have no intent of continuing. Merry Christmas!Īlso, I feel like every year the Elf pressure gets more intense. ![]() Mommy isn’t that clever after all, mommy just went on Pinterest and stole. My kid might think it’s hilarious but I’d know the truth. #Elf on a shelf movie#But where’s the fun in that? I’d feel like a sham every time I bent that elf’s arm around a Barbie doll and posed the pair of them in front of the TV screen atop a model car Mustang for their big drive-in movie date night. A quick Google search leaves me a thousand percent overwhelmed. Here’s the other thing, and maybe this is unique to me and my degree of neurosis, but pull up a chair here: sure, it would be easy enough to use other people’s clever ideas. And I admire you! You are seriously amazing and I can tell it’s fun for you and I can practically HEAR your kids giggling every morning. I see you, Facebook friends, I see all of you. No.īut I can’t escape the elves on the shelves. You want me tip-toeing around the kid’s bathroom, sprinkling cheddar Goldfish into the toilet while perching a doll atop the tank while affixing a miniature candy cane ‘fishing pole’ to his hands? And then coming up with a new idea for the next night, and the next, and the next, and then again next year? I can’t. #Elf on a shelf full#I mean, for me? One semi-Xanaxish night of wrapping gifts in full Ninja Santa mode, just waiting to be caught in the act of wrapping and taking a bite out of the cookies we left for Santa to make it somewhat realistic and leaving a note (Ho Ho Ho, your cookies are delicious but Santa is on Atkins this year, Ho Ho Ho) is enough. You are IN for YEARS and YEARS of coming up with new ways to delight your kids every morning for a MONTH leading up to Christmas. Non-elfing moms and dads, I implore you – think about it: Once you commit to doing Elf on the Shelf, you are IN. The reason is 100% because I’m just plain lazy. I don’t remember what my response was, but here’s the real deal: the reason we don’t do Elf on the Shelf is not because I am a Christmas Scrooge or that I don’t love my kid enough or because the elf got lost on his way to our house (which is actually a decent excuse, I should remember that for next time the kid asks). In fact, this year, my 8 year old flat-out ASKED me why we don’t have Elf on the Shelf at our house. Honestly, it’s adorable and I know the kids love those elves. ![]() It’s that time again, the time when the cleverest, craftiest moms and dads dust off their favorite Elf on the Shelf Pinterest boards and create magic for their Facebook friends - I mean, their kids! Of course, their kids. ![]()
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