Our Elf on the Shelf, Messy, made her appearance this week.  Sometime during the night of the 25th, she came down from the North Pole to stay with us for a while.  She wrote this letter to the girls:
Since then, she has taken a marshmallow bath,

hung out in the freezer (missing the North Pole temperatures already), 

 searched for hot chocolate in my snowman drink dispenser,

and did a little swinging from our lights.

The girls wake up in the mornings SO much easier now that Messy is here.  All I have to say is “Oh my goodness! Come look what this elf has done!” and they hop right up and go running to find her.  Oh the joys of Christmastime 🙂