The Manderscheid Family: Aly's Elf Rosie

This year we took part in the Christmas tradition, Elf on a Shelf. We changed it a little to adapt more for us but it still was a lot of fun. For those of you who don’t know the tradition here it is: Every year Santa sends an Elf to your house at the beginning of December to help keep watch over the children to make sure they are good enough to stay on the Nice list. Every night your Elf will fly back to the North Pole and give Santa an update about how the kids are behaving. When the Elfs return to your home they sometimes get into things but they are in a new place every morning. The kids find the Elf in the morning so they know where he/she is to see if they are watching.

Our Elf that Santa sent was named Rosie. She was a cute little thing. Rosie was sitting on our door step on Dec. 3 with a letter from Santa explaining everything to Aly about who she was and what she was doing there. The letter also stated that Aly couldn’t touch Rosie because if she did, Rosie would loss her powers to fly and then she couldn’t go back to see Santa. Rosie got into some things during the night but most of the time was a well behaved Elf. She got hungry one night and ate some of Aly’s fruit loops. Then I guess the next night she got bored and played with Aly’s blocks. We found her reading a book to baby Molly and Elmo one morning too. She brought Aly a sucker from Santa one morning too just to let her know he was proud of the good job she was doing. On the 23^rd Rosie brought Aly a slinky and hid it in her kitchen and wrote a poem on Aly’s new board telling Aly where to find it. Rosie was a great Elf but she had to return to the North Pole last night and we won’t see her until next year. She let Aly give her a hug and kiss goodbye though since that was Rosie’s last day!

Aly really enjoyed this. Every morning she woke up and said “Where is Rosie?” When she found her it was always the highlight of her morning. She would say “that silly Rosie” So cute!!! We can’t wait for next year to see what kind of Silly things Rosie will get into!

A poem from Rosie " for my last day here, I have left you a surprise, go to your kitchen and open you eyes!" There was a slinky inside her kitchen from Rosie!