Merry Christmas. The elf is back, of course - Sammy's been hanging around our house since about Thanksgiving although I've been remiss about posting his general whereabouts. He was also hanging with us in 2009 and 2010.
Today he made it up on to one of the wall sconces along our stairwell. I didn't get to witness the morning ritual of the girls finding him because I had to leave at an early hour for work (the pic is around 5AM), but it had to be pretty easy today. He's right there as you come down the stairs, smiling with his same old cherub-like expression.
Since it's our third season of doing this he's pretty much family now. In fact, Audrey counts him as a family member and claims that if you include Sammy, Barry and the four hermit crabs (the sex of whom is totally unidentifiable in my view), males might actually outnumber females in the household now.
