My New Old Decoration

I have had an elf sit in my christmas tree my whole childhood and he looks just like this.  He was my favorite decoration to put on the tree and I made my mother promise me that she'd leave it to me.  When I told me mother about how this elf has made it's come back, she told me that our elf was actually my grandmother's!  How old is that!  I'll get a photo of our old elf and compare, I am now the proud owner of an Elf on a Shelf.  His name is Ernie.