Holiday Hoopla: giving away The Elf on The Shelf

I recently discovered the book The Elf on the Shelf. I love, love, love the idea of this creepy little elf hanging out in our house reporting back to Santa on the daily naughty and niceness of my kids. Hope this will whip them into shape over the next couple of weeks!

The good news? My brother-in-law saw that the author would be doing a signing near his work. He braved the soccer moms and a weird old man to buy two of The Elf on the Shelf, one for my family and one for a lucky MommyCosm reader. AND? He got the author to sign it. Very cool. (Thank you Rufus!)

I'm adding an Amazon thingy so that you can see a picture of the product.

In case you already have The Elf on the Shelf, or the thought of the thing living in your house creeps you out too much, my own little elves put together something for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy this:

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

If you want to enter to win MommyCosm's signed copy of The Elf on the Shelf giveaway, tell me something naughty your kids have done recently in the comments.

Read the official Holiday Hoopla Rules:

- Each day this week, I will post new giveaway item(s).
- To enter to win, you must comment on the post which contains the product you would like to win.
- One comment per person per post.
- Qualify for another entry by posting the following on twitter:
Check out @MommyCosm 's Holiday Hoopla! Lots of great giveaway prizes this week! See: http://www.mommycosm.com #MoCoHoHo
- Leave a seperate comment to let me know you tweeted.
- Commentors must provide an email so that I can contact you.
- Winners will be chosen by a random number generator.

(UPDATED: December 13, 2008)

Please note, due to the ice storm in NH and lack of internet access:
- CONTEST NOW CLOSES ON Monday, December 15, 2008 AT 11:59PM EST
- Winners will be announced on Tuesday, December 16, 2008. 

Update on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 08:43AM by Mommycosm

And the winner is...

Jayden & Reagan (no website)

I know where you live too...random.org is freaking me out...

Comments

[kompostela]

My naughty girl painted the wall with the "flamingo":))

[Danielle]

My little girl is just 15 months but is starting to learn all things naughty! Like how on Mondays when I do the laundry she likes to sit and wait for me to put all the clothes away. Then when I'm not in the room she goes to the drawers and pull out every single item of clothing! I'm now looking for something to keep our dresser drawer closed.
This is a fun giveaway! My daughter love books and creepy looking elves! No but really this would be a fun tradition to start for each Christmas. We love Christmas books!

[Jayden & Reagan]

We really want an Elf. We were being super loud when Momma was working at home and we don't listen to our Mom when she tells us to do something.

[anglophilefootballfanatic]

Mine chose to tell his father what we'd bought him for Christmas. Lovely, eh?