Don't get me wrong, I love, love, love Christmas. Yes, I am actually disappointed when the Christmas music doesn't start the day after Halloween (I have been known to listen to Christmas music in the summer). I secretly get excited when the decorations for Christmas start being stocked on the shelves in September. How can you not love Christmas? It is such a happy, happy, season. Family, cheer, joy, laughter, cookie exchanges, Joe's Yorkshire pudding, bubbly, really the Christmas season has it all.
It also has that damn Elf. If you have kids, you know what I am talking about. This stinking Elf tradition is NOT about Christmas, but about another way the "Martha Stewart" mothers can show the rest of us up. (Yes, I totally buy into because I don't want my kids to be excluded and it does keep them in check, a little bit.) But it is a huge PAIN-IN-THE-ASS. Our slacker Elf never comes out at Thanksgiving (maybe he is still drunk) and we always have a lot of explaining to do on why he is still in the same spot as yesterday or has only moved an inch (again, could be a hangover). Right now the explanation that he is just "really tricky" seems to be cutting it, but it won't for long.
So here is my favorite post of all time for this season (I think I am going to take her up on her last suggestion):
People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Overachieving Elf on the Shelf Mommies:
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