I had no idea how tough this would be.
It's just one of those things that wasn't listed in the parenting books. And I've read a ton.
They don't even hint that it might be an issue.
I assumed it was just another thing you cruise through in the upbringing of your children, and yet here I sit, feeling like a failure, yet again, over the unfortunate creation of the blasted tooth fairy.
I mean, really, who's idea was this? Obviously no one thought this through clearly. Seriously.
1. You're supposed to hope that between the time the child loses the tooth, and the time when they go to bed that you don't lose the tooth. Yep, done it. We managed to make it all the way back from Disneyworld with tooth #2, only to have the housekeepers wipe it off the counter by mistake, apparently thinking it was a rock, or something... who knows.
2. Then you're supposed to hope that your child loses the tooth in an early enough part of the day so that you can either go break a $20, or make it to the bank. good luck. Thank God for cool neighbors, and even with that, tooth #1 cashed in with a $10.
3. Then you hope you're not idiotic enough to either talk about it where your child can hear, and assemble the cash in a discreet fashion. Hence, the outcome of tooth #3, whereas our dear son said "The tooth fairy didn't leave that money under my pillow, Dad did! I saw you guys talking about it!" Nice.
4. When all other hope is gone, just please for the love of God don't forget to play tooth fairy, and if you do, hope that the stupid cat wakes you up at 2:30 in the morning to sound of her eating the money that you had set aside on the nightstand so you wouldn't forget.
After throwing the cat, we then thanked the cat. Only to go upstairs to a wide awake child staring at you, wondering why you are in their bedroom at 2:30 in the morning. Lamely pulling off a kiss on the forehead, sweep under the pillow move, realize that child will forever be disappointed by the now lame tokens of cash from the tooth fairy, because you were dumb enough to hit him up with a $10 spot the first time, so a five is just so not cool in comparison.
so, now Cam's down 4 teeth, and hopefully we can take a break from this all failing task as tooth fairy for at least a month or so... who knew? And once again, I'd like to know who did NOT think this through before coming up with it??
5 comments:
welcome back to blogland.
maybe you should do other mom's a favorite and write the guide to toothfairies and other mythical children's creatures. ;o)
So glad you're back! You can add "don't forget to get rid of the tooth" to your list. Explaining why the tooth is sitting on the bathroom counter the next morning, OY!
Where have you been!! : )
I missed you.
This is the cutest photo. Why is it only young kids look good with out teeth??
glad I can now access your blog...what was with that? At least Cam is your first child losing teeth...with child # 3 you are soooo over playing the tooth fairy...and it doesn't help when they lose their first tooth on a friday evening when you are having happy hour with your neighbors. Like I'm really going to remember to play the tooth fairy that night. At least I gave it a try and wrote a note on my bathroom mirror so I would remember...yeah right.
And Cam does look too cute with no teeth.
i pretended to sleep one night the fairy was coming and it was totally my mom. she kissed me too and i thought that was very nice, plus i had two bucks. ironically it never made me think about whether santa or the easter bunny were made up, so you may be safe. it's not like i went and used drugs...oh yeah, i did. well, cam won't. so no worries!
but ps, ewww teeth! are you keeping the dirty little blood nuggets? my mom still has mine and jason's mom has his
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