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THUMP! Nim and Lil landed on the window sill and silently they crept into the house. It was “opening night” and they had something special planned to start the season off.
“Nim! This bag is heavier than Santa’s sleigh!” said Lil as she hefted the bag off of Nim.
Lil got a piece of paper and red marker down from the desk.
“What are you doing?” Nim whispered.
“Writing a letter to them…explaining to the girls how I found them.”
While Lil wrote, Nim opened his bag pulling out a packet of hot chocolate and a Christmas mug for each child.
There was one extra packet of cocoa in the box and Nim was feeling a bit hungry. He hadn’t had anything since his dinner of marshmallows and chocolate syrup–with a side of jelly beans.
He tried to be careful opening the extra packet of cocoa, but the powdery chocolate puffed out in a cloud and spilled all over the table.
Lil finished the note and pushed it over to the spilled cocoa.
“Look what you did,” she giggled, blue eyes twinkling as she scooped up a handful of powder.
“Hey, I opened that for me!” Nim shouted, throwing a handful of cocoa at Lil.
Lil squealed. The two mischief-making elves spent a few minutes having a cocoa fight before they spied ribbons and bows near a beautifully decorated tree. Nim and Lil looked at each other and smiled in silent agreement on their next activity.
Nim climbed the cabinet with a container of bows and plastered them all over the walls and countertops..
“Whee!” said Lil as she laughed and zoomed around the light fixture gathering handfuls of chocolate and throwing it in the air.
“Be careful Lil, you’ll get tangled up,” Nim was grinning at the sight of her zigging and zagging through the light fixture.
The warning came too late, and Lil suddenly found herself twisted in red tinsel rope and paper snowflakes.
Nim started to laugh. “I told you!”
Lil lobbed a bow at Nim and they found themselves hurling Christmas bows and ribbon at each other…Nim getting tangled in the tinsel rope too.
“Well,” said Lil breathlessly. “I suppose this is a good place to watch the kids.”
“Yes,” agreed Nim. “We can unravel ourselves tomorrow before we fly back to Santa.”
The elves smiled and with a sparkle in their eyes, waited excitedly for the kids to wake up.
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