Evil Elves
My daughter spun a tall tale last week about evil elves who live in her closet. It was yet another excuse to not sleep in her room. I checked her room out thoroughly and declared it to be free of elves, but she was not convinced and spent another night in mommy and daddy's bed.
But what if I was wrong? What if there really are evil elves in there? I'm beginning to think that my daughter is telling the truth!
The other night I was cleaning up her room for the umpteenth time. Toys littered the floor, bed, and shelves. I gathered them all up, put some in boxes and bins, while others made their way to the garbage can. I left the room orderly and clean.
The very next night, there were toys all over the room again! Only these were (cue the spooky music) different toys. Some I've never seen before.
Where did they come from? How did they get thrown all over her room?
It suddenly dawned on me that elves make toys. And elves that are evil would delight in making toys that were broken, or had missing parts... The very toys that seem to populate my daughter's room!
I can just imagine these malevolent munchkins, having been kicked out of the North Pole in disgrace, are now roaming the countryside, living in little girls' closets and causing mayhem with their mad toymaking skills.
There's just no other explanation for it.
But what if I was wrong? What if there really are evil elves in there? I'm beginning to think that my daughter is telling the truth!
The other night I was cleaning up her room for the umpteenth time. Toys littered the floor, bed, and shelves. I gathered them all up, put some in boxes and bins, while others made their way to the garbage can. I left the room orderly and clean.
The very next night, there were toys all over the room again! Only these were (cue the spooky music) different toys. Some I've never seen before.
Where did they come from? How did they get thrown all over her room?
It suddenly dawned on me that elves make toys. And elves that are evil would delight in making toys that were broken, or had missing parts... The very toys that seem to populate my daughter's room!
I can just imagine these malevolent munchkins, having been kicked out of the North Pole in disgrace, are now roaming the countryside, living in little girls' closets and causing mayhem with their mad toymaking skills.
There's just no other explanation for it.
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17 Comments:
That's spooky. I'd move if I were you.
Sell them on e-bay!
Phil, if you find an effective method of eradication - PLEASE post it! I seem to have the same infestation issues that you do in each of my kids' bedrooms...
Watching carefully....
The Father of Five.
I don't think elves make toys. I NEVER ONCE saw Orlando Bloom making a toy. You've got your mythology messed up. You obviously have gremlins.
heh...good luck with that. We seem to have the same problem in our basement. We'll clean it up one day, but to the surprise of all of us (the boys included, it would seem), the whole basement gets littered with toys again within 48 hours, and nobody seems to know how it happened. It's amazing. I'm considering calling Ghostbusters.
Gremlins, huh? These must be the same creatures who refuse to flush the toilet, because whenever I ask the kids, "Who went to the bathroom and didn't flush?" the answer is always "Not me."
malevolent munchkins
now THAT is a blog name if I've ever heard one...
If they are Gremlins, don't get them wet or feed them after midnight.
You must have a very mild case if it takes the elves a whole 48 hours. My "elves" could do the job in 45 minutes.
I remember not liking to sleep in my bedroom when I was little either. I think watching "Dark Shadows" after school every day may have had something to do with it. Well, Barnabus Collins eventualy went away, and I'm sure the elves will too.
Were we that clever as kids too?
My little one certainly is and giving me a run for my money lately.
I forgot to say: I heard once a really good trick is to invite a friend over for a sleep over, then they sort of have to sleep in her room and it hopefully helps sort it out. Depending on child.
*note to parent* What do you want?
Her sleeping in her own bed, then say to self don't give in, don't give in, don't give in.
If happy or o.k. with what's happening until she's ready to "let go" then play along, life's to short to stress over it. She'll outgrow it eventually :-)
Unh. I forgot the 'monster spray' on our recent trip. Big mistake. But I didn't connect the mass of scattered legos to my forgetfulness.
My daughter now has a screaming mummy in her room, since we watched a documentary on Egypt. I think she would welcome evil elves at this point.
"Who went to the bathroom and didn't flush?"
That's what we call "a keeper" at our house, and it is strictly verboten.
By the way, maybe you could whip up an elf version of Monster Spray (water with a few drops of perfume, dispensed from an old spray bottle) to get rid of the evil elves.
You need to write a children's book about the evil elves :)
lol That must be!!!....they are here too!!!
Years ago one of our daughters went through a phase of monsters being in the closet at night. It was hard to get her to settle down and go to sleep.
One day we read about dolphins and she really enjoyed learning about dolphins. That night as I put her to bed I spent five minutes talking about a Mister pretend dolphin who would protect her from any monsters. We talked about how the dolphin would push all the monsters out of the house. The dolphin would stay in her room all through the night.
She had very little problems after that.
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