Snowflake the Elf

Snowflake the Elf made a few appearances this week – in the photo shown here, he looks relaxed hanging with the kids at The Children’s Place. The next day, however, he was not so relaxed when greeting a classroom of first graders. The Sheet received the following text Wednesday morning: “So I walk in after my introduction and who is sitting right in front? Stella Vanderhurst, the neighbor girl down the street. She squints as if she’s trying to look through my makeup. I lose my Elfin focus. I mean, I caked on twice as much clown white makeup than yesterday cause too many kids recognized me as Trey’s dad. I must have Elf Creds. I am not a man in an elf costume. I’m not. Oh no … she’s pointing at me. I know she’s about to blab out loud to the entire first grade that I’m an impostor. Quickly, I turn up the mic and rush into my falsetto elf voice. I drown her out. I don’t know if I can make it all the way through the performance. I didn’t sign up for this abuse when I bought the elf costume at Party City … “