{"id":1201,"date":"2015-12-15T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T03:00:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-02-17T04:49:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T04:49:19","slug":"step-elf-shelf-here-comes-marvin-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.boredmom.com\/?p=1201","title":{"rendered":"Step Off Elf On A Shelf, Here Comes Marvin The Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field_image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/marvinthemouse.jpg\" title=\"marvinthemouse.jpg\" alt=\"marvinthemouse.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;\">When I was a young child, we would visit my Grandparents in Florida over the holidays. They told me the story of Marvin the Mouse, a gift bearing rodent, that would come bearing a gift each night for the 12 days before Christmas.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;\">This tradition was in lieu of doing stockings on Christmas morning, which scared me. Was Santa freaked out by mice? Surely, he&#8217;s seen worse sliding down those dirty chimneys. Braving the concept, m<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;\">y grandparents instructed me to put a shoe in a windowsill and Marvin would come at night and leave a little gift in it. (No, not mouse poop.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;\">Many of the South Florida homes back then had gray or white polished marble slab windowsills, as I ima<\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;\">gine they withstood the high humidity. I thought it was odd at first, but was curious as to how Marvin was going to get up on that slick ledge. I put out a patent leather dress shoe that I secretly hoped Marvin would eat. In the morning, as promised, Marvin had brought me a gift &#8211; a giant glazed sugar cookie from a bakery. Even as I grew older, I looked forward to Florida Grandparent visits and Marvin&#8217;s nightly trek bearing gifts of gum, quarters and candy. It wasn&#8217;t so much about what I was getting, but more of the excitement of something fun to look forward to each morning. In retrospect, stockings on Christmas morning can be a little overwhelming to kids when already combined with Santa and Family presents. This year, we are ditching the stockings and putting a shoe in the window to see if Marvin can find his way to our home here in California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/marvininmorning.jpg\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 338px;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;\">Hey, look! He came!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a young child, we would visit my Grandparents in Florida over the holidays. 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