It's OK (by me)

  It's that time again. A time to reflect on who cares, so what, it's ok! I'm going to play along with airingmylaundry today as I tell you what items/events/activities  are OK by me.

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  It's OK that I may actually miss out on the 2 special limited time drinks offered by Starbucks.

  It's OK that the end of the year is almost here.  I'm focused on starting a new year!

  It's OK that I have my DVR set for the new season of Housewives of Atlanta and Steve Austins Broken Skull Challenge coming up in November!

  It's OK that I'm reading 2 books at one time because one is for fun and the other is for my book club!

  Are you ok?  Because if your not you should be! 

Thanks Elf Day 10

  Good things come to those who wait!  It almost surprises me to see what elf has come up with to start the day.  Sometimes it happens before my very eyes.

  I do have to tell you sometimes Elf is hiding on me and that is a chore to go find him.  He may go missing as soon as he is discovered after his antics or just during the day; he seems to drift or be transplanted without me knowing anything about it.  So I walk around looking for him.  Sometimes the kids switch places with him so that the toys being picked on can get their revenge other times he seems to be put in time out due to his actions at the present time.

  Today was different.  My kids easily forgive and forget.  The kids woke up to a good Elf and that is more acceptable to them.

He made stairs out of legos and was climbing up the tree with our tree topper.  Apparently our Elf was going to put the star on the tree! 

Thank you, elf that was very nice and thoughtful of you!  We have yet to put our ornaments up so you putting the star up is a great start! 

  It was pretty smart of you to assemble your own stairs to climb up there. It must have been pretty hard to get those pieces to stick together.  I know when I have tried to make steps past 4 they always fall apart.

You have started out a great day for us Elf and we needed that.  Today will be a good day for everyone here, I'm sure.  Happy Holidays to you!

Day 8 with Elf

  Day 8 was a calm one.  Elf seems to be making himself at home and making friends.  He is now helping himself to toys and entertaining himself when we are sleeping.  I don't have a problem with that as long as he's quiet, nice and cleans up after himself.

   This doesn't look too bad. Elf was playing with the dump truck and legos.  That's a nice fun, quiet way to entertain himself.  I mean maybe he couldn't sleep, or woke up early and was being considerate and not trying to wake up the rest of the house.  He even choose the mid size blocks so I didn't step on small pieces.

  It does look like he has piled the blocks on froggy but maybe they were taking turns.  Maybe froggy went first and I didn't see that part.

  After all Elf looks like he's having fun. Smile on his face.  Maybe he likes it here after all.

The Elf day 1

  This is the first year with an elf.  I have different plans for him.  He will not be up to mischief as I have read about others.  He will encourage us to interact with each other, get out and about and play games.

  He was placed in position yesterday to been seen in the morning for his first activity with us.

  I have read where some families are not participating in the elf idea because they find it creepy that he moves.  My daughter thought it was cute that he was stationed by the door.  My son said he had to go with us since it was his idea.  They realize it's not real but it's a fun imagination game!

  We got some great books to read over the next few days and in the end it was a nice introduction for everyone.