Buttons the Elf

A couple Sundays ago when Wyatt got home from hunting with Poppy there was a box on the front porch. Wyatt brought it inside and gave it to me. I told him to open it, he did and there was an elf inside with a letter. Wyatt opened and read the letter, it was addressed to him. The letter basically said Santa is too busy to watch every child this year so Santa sent this elf to watch Wyatt. Its a new elf and doesn't have a name so Wyatt named him Buttons. Its a shy elf and wont come to life in front of anyone but may get into trouble at night and will report to Santa at the North Pole every night on Wyatt. We have to put Buttons back in his box on Christmas Eve and Santa will pick him up when he leaves Wyatt's present. If Wyatt is good then Buttons may come back next year.

So Buttons prefers one spot in the living room to sit on a shelf and watch everything. Sometimes Buttons moves to the mantle or the bar but mostly he just sits on the "O" out of the "LOVE" hanging on the wall in the living room.

One day after school Grandma picked Wy up and brought him by the house. Buttons had tied himself to the ceiling fan in the dining room and was flying around the dining room!

One night Wyatt was playing with a slinky and left it on the coffee table. The next morning when we woke up Buttons was tangled up in the slinky! Buttons has brought Wyatt an "elf" toy, a gingerbread man cookie and last night decided we needed candy canes and left 20 candy canes on our Christmas tree!!

One morning last week, Buttons wasn't in the living room (where he stays most of the time). He was in the kitchen, on the counter with flour all over the counter. Buttons had made a snow angel out of the flour!!! Guess who had to clean up that mess???? Not Wyatt!!

Buttons got out a Tonka truck one night that had a ladder on it and he was climbing up the Christmas tree with it. Wyatt got new house shoes and they came on a little hanger. We didn't pick up after ourselves and the next morning we found Buttons hanging from the chandelier with the house shoe hanger! We have found Buttons at the end of Wyatt's bed with the remote control watching cartoons. Buttons was fishing in our aquarium one morning! Crazy Elf!!!!

I think it will actually be sad to see Buttons go. I sure hope Wyatt is good so we get him back next year!

Holidays

I love Christmas time! Except the working in retail part. People should be happy and cheerful but instead people are bitchy and act like I own at&t and I make all the rules, policies and procedures!!!
Okay, enough bitching from me.

I put my tree up a couple weeks before Thanksgiving. I love my tree but it leans (maybe just because of all the weight on the front of it) and I want a bigger one. Bigger house, bigger tree RIGHT??? i have so many ornaments that they don't fit on my tree, i hated packing up a box of ornaments to go back to the garage because they wont fit on my tree!!!

Thanksgiving was so great. It was my first Thanksgiving to host at my own house!!! The turkey intimidated me so mom made the turkey and ham, broccoli and cheese casserole, cranberry salad and corn casserole. Susan made REAL mashed potatoes (because i was going to fix instant), REAL stuffing (because i would have made Stovetop out of the box), pumpkin pie and pecan pie. Heidi made a strawberry cheesecake. Dave made jalapeno stuffed chicken breast and pistachio pudding. I made rolls, green bean casserole, instant mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes. We had so much food. It was great and the first Thanksgiving i have never ate turkey or ham because i ate the chicken!!!! It was me, Wyatt, Tony, Alexis, (Tonya was at her moms), Memaw, Mom, Heidi, Susan, John and Dave. Memaw didn't eat with us though. She said she wasn't hungry. Mom thinks MeMaw was disoriented being out of her environment and around people she didn't really know (or remember that she had met before) so I'm not sure how we will do Christmas or future holiday get-togethers.

I didn't get to do Black Friday shopping this year BUT who needs to when i have a little sister like Heidi????? Heidi was at Toys R Us by midnight to get Wyatt a DSI. She was out all night. Never went to sleep. I know she was at Target at like 4 am, Kohls at like 9 am, etc. Good news is, she did get the Nintendo dsi and now that she got Wy his, she wants one!!!!

I have wrapped over 40 presents and still have stuff to wrap. Wrapping is the one part I hate about Christmas but I like the presents to be underneath the tree so wrapping is just part of the Christmas fun!

Tony put up the Christmas lights before Thanksgiving but they blew breakers, broke outlets and blew fuses. Dad changed the outlet, we got an extension cord so that only two strands of lights are hooked together and plugged in together and we still cant keep them on. So i think I'm over the Christmas lights for this year and I'm pretty sure we had three strands of lights last year all plugged into one outlet?????

Wyatt saw Santa Claus at Bass Pro Shops with Grandma and told him he wants an electric scooter. Sure hope he gets one!!!!