Elf on the Shelf: Trauma Recovery

After this post yesterday, I know you are all anxious to know how our elf, Messy, is recovering.  She returned this morning, looking like this:

And with this note:

After carefully unwrapping her gauze, we found that she did, in fact, look as good as new.  The girls are so excited to have her back (all in one piece) and promised to be EXTRA careful with her from now on.   And just so you have a comparison, here is the before and after:

Santa can work magic, I tell you.  I may ship myself to the North Pole for a little work :)