I vaguely remember hearing about it many years ago...
but it had never really caught my interest ....until now!!!
The jist is that the elf reports to Santa every night on the
activities of the children that live in the household.
These reports allow Santa to determine if the child/children
should be on the "naughty" or "nice" list. Every morning
when the children wake up they are suppose to scramble
around looking for where their elf has relocated himself/herself
within the household....that is the really fun part. There are so
many wonderfully creative people out there who have posted
pictures of their house elves (so Harry Potter ish....) getting
into all kinds of fun predicaments. My children are in their
20's now....so there really isn't any real discussion about what
list they will be on...."NAUGHTY"...and of course their is
no mad scramble in the morning to find the elves. One
morning I asked one of my sons (yes, they still live at home)
to look in the frig....as I had set the elves up in there...he did...
but he was looking forward to a favorite food...and was
disappointed to find the elves...although I did get a smirk out
of it! It is just odd that I have picked now of all times to
begin this tradition. My reasoning is that I wanted to hand
off to them something that is fun, creative, and that they might
enjoy doing with their children one day. So I adopted not one,
but two elves....named Tully and Declan O'Brien (very Irish.
and intentional...). I forgot to mention that you register your
elves and their names on line. You can even print out a certificate
of adoption and a letter from Santa too....FUN! As you can see
