Every Christmas Eve before the egg nog, cookies, the reading of Christ's birth, and the acting out of the Nativity, we each pick our past favorite Christmas book, and then after we read all the books we picked, my mom brings out the NEW book.
Well, I have wanted this certain book for AGES! I always forget to get it before December starts, and then I think I will remember earlier the next year. Well this year... I REMEMBERED!!!
And straight away called my mom and asked her to buy it for us. :)
It came in the mail the other day. I wrapped it in cute polka dot paper. I then gave it to my neighbor to leave on our doorstep, tonight, Monday, FHE.
Here is how the evening unfolded...
A knock on the door:
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Door Opened and "pissmiss present" entered into the hands of two two year olds:
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A little unwrappage happened and behold our new book!!!
The Elf on the Shelf
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As parents, we hide the elf in a new place in the house and the twins have to find him.... and who wouldn't want to find him, look how vintagey cute he is!
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... so excuse me, because I have a elf to move and hide.
6 love notes:
Oh my gosh, I LOVE that!
he is a cute little elf. i think you should have named him pissy, haha.
I am so leaving my house asap to get this book! love it and love new tradition ideas! tks for sharing!
Love seeing everyone's traditions! We love books too! My tradition w/ my kids is Christmas Eve they get 2 gifts. Matching pj's and a new Christmas book. We get cozy, read our book, then put out the cookies & milk for Santa!!! Helps make the Christmas book collection grow over the years!
It looks like Finn has a California tan!!! Or is that just from living in that snow!!!
Love Ya!!!
We did this EXACT same thing!!! The kids were in awe. They named ours Buddy(from the movie Elf, so clever). It was the first thing they asked about this morning and I can't wait for a whole month of good behavior thanks to that cute little guy.
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