The Elf on the Shelf

For those of you with little kids, I highly recommend getting "The Elf on the Shelf". Or at least looking into it. It comes with a book and a little elf that you can name. We named our elf Jasper. The idea is that Santa has sent an elf to live at your house to keep an eye on you. He is making sure you are being good and reports to Santa each night on your behavior. You can talk to the elf but he was told by Santa that he is not allowed to talk to us. You are not allowed to touch the Elf either. The parents hide him somewhere in the house (where the kids can still see him) and he sits there and watches the kids. After the kids have gone to bed you move him somewhere else in the house. And when the kids wake up they try to find where the elf moved to while they were asleep. He can be anywhere! The top of the fridge, in the Christmas tree, on a shelf...you never know but he is watching and you have to find him! It's just a fun way to remind the kids Santa really does know if you are naughty or nice. And they have fun trying to find him each morning. I think it will be a fun tradition to start with our family!

Click on The Tradition under the "ABOUT US" section here for more info.

(They have it at Target and Barnes and Noble if you are interested!)