Morning Muse - Not Your Average Elf on the Shelf

​’Tis the time of year for small elves to appear on shelves of stores and homes everywhere. They are commonly referred to as the Elf on a Shelf. It should be noted that not all of these small red clad beings are what we have come to expect of them. Meet Wally . . . 

Wally was happy to have this new job.  He’d been rescued from the dust bin to become the year-round Elf in the Grunch family home.

It was his job to disrupt any, and all functions that took place within this families home. His season didn’t come only once a year, it was all year and Wally especially took pride in his job description during the winter holiday known as Christmas. The time when smiley faces and gifts were everywhere. 

He didn’t need the help of his humans to move around. Sometimes he would show up incognito, not resembling and elf at all.  Wally had a magical way about him. Moving around the room on his own. Positioning himself to throw Sugar Plums at the party goers becoming amorous under the Mistletoe. Spilling drinks on noisy children. Dislodging tree decorations on the heads of snooping pets. 

He added his own flavour of Christmas Spirit to the punch. Just to make sure everyone singing any Falalalalala songs were doing so in the most tipsy and lewd fashion possible. 

​This job, he knew, was most certainly to his liking. It wasn’t seasonal and it was far above what he had been destined for. Not at all like the other cutesy, perky little Elves he had known on the factory assembly line. 

This was his calling, his destiny, his life!

Do you have a cheeky elf at your home?

​Ann Edall-Robson
Author, Photographer, Lover of Life