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ok. so i just had to get two things out here while they are fresh in my mind.
the first is that devyn lost another tooth last night...actually her awana leader yanked it (but i guess devyn is ok with that since this is the second time she has let her do it.) the toothfairy at our house is very generous. she got $5!!! my toothfairy only left me quarters! when i grew up and became the toothfairy not only was i not very generous, i got my toothfairy license revoked. i happily gave my magic wand to jay. this is why: when camryn lost her last tooth, jay asked me to take care of it since i was the one who stays up all night, i could do it before going to bed. well, i forgot. of course camryn was very disappointed in the morning. i told her that maybe she just didn't have it completely under her pillow or something. the next night, the same thing happened. i went to bed and forgot the tooth. another disappointment. sadly, that was not the last night i let my daughter down. since i could not get it together, on the third morning i told her the truth. she is eight. mommy is the toothfairy and mommy forgot your tooth. i'm sorry. here is $5.00. i really wanted to say what i was feeling. mommy is bad. incompetent. i don't deserve to be your mommy, i can't even do the toothfairy right. but then again, i really don't like lying to them about such things as the toothfairy, santa claus, the easter bunny. i guess i just don't have the imagination for it. i guess i am just not a very fun mom. but that's another post. anyway, jay came up with the perfect solution since he is not one for waiting for the kids to fall asleep so he can sneak around. last night he took devyn's tooth and put it into our tooth box, on a bed of a cotton ball (which is why she could not hear the tooth when she shook the box). and it was taped shut to assure that the tooth would not fall out. that's the story he gave her anyway. what he really did was put the tooth away, folded and put the $5 in the box and taped it shut so she would not open it and see the money. ain't my man evah so clevah? she opened the box this morning, found the money, still believes in the toothfairy, and all is well in her blissful world...camryn just came over and whispered to me, "mom, did you give her the $5?" i told her it was dad this time. ;)
a little part of me feels like i robbed her of a little bit of that bliss that devyn is feeling. i said only a little part. i have to be honest, the other part is relieved to not have to play that game with her. here's a funny story. i have a friend that was forced to tell her 6 year old daughter that she was the toothfairy. her daughter lost a tooth, and at bed time put the tooth beneath her pillow to wait for the toothfairy. but in her mind, that was not a good thing. my friend awoke to the sound of her daughter sobbing because she was afraid to think that some 'fairy' that she did not know, had never seen before, was going to be sneaking around her room while she was sleeping! um, ya. that would spook me too. she would not stop crying until my friend confessed that SHE was the toothfairy and gave her the money!
ok. that ran long so the other thing i wanted to share was an answer to shannon's question about the book. sorry it's gotta wait until later :(
4 comments:
OMG Girl! That is too much. Way to go DH! I will have to remember all that, as my oldest is nearing 6 and I'm sure the tooth fairy issue will soon be coming. I would totally be just like you and be so tired when I get ready to finally go to bed that I would just forget! I've actually done a similar thing recently..DH asked me to throw some clothes in the dryer before I went to sleep (the load had Alyssa's pants for school the next day - she has to wear a uniform and was out of clean pants)..so of course I said, "OK, no problem." Well...next day (dh gets her up in the morning and takes her to school on his way to work) when I got up, I rememberd that load of laundry I NEVER put in the dryer! I still don't remember what DH did that morning for the poor kiddo. OH..and must share: I used to get checks and IOUs from the toothfairy! LOL
oh lisa...is nothing sacred in your world?! thats ok, toothfairy used to leave me 50 cent pieces which i was not allowed to spend...but one time i did. My mother was so furious with me that she bellowed "what do you think your doing?! don't you know that the toothfairy has to go to Tahoe to get those!" Good for Jay :) But don't feel bad, sometimes, dad has to be the hero..it's good for little girls anyway :)
Lisa, we musta been twins separated at birth! I can SO relate to this that it is not even funny. Don't believe me? Check out this blog entry from last April: http://trishs.blogspot.com/2005/04/toothfairy-guild.html
Know you are not alone. I may have to take try hat trick of Jay's - it's brilliant!
Yep our kids will probably at some point feel deprived, but we never did tooth fairy or easter bunny..not even Santa. Just felt like lying and I would rather spend my time encouraging my kids to believe in truth. Not that I judge other people for doing those things, but it just wasn't right for us. Funny thing is, some of our kids believed anyway lol at least for a bit, but it was never with encouragement from us! LOL.
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