veg4fairy

As a parent there is nothing worse than the sound of Nooooooooooo jumping to the forefront of your brain when your kids are both sound asleep in bed, you are cuddled up on the couch watching The Goblet of Fire and one of the kids stumbles down the hallway clutching something.

"Look! I lost a tooth!"

Crap, not tonight. I just gave my last 9 dollars to the library today for overdue fines. We had reserved 6 movies at the library and could not check them out until the fines were paid.

I stared at Noodle trying to muster up some enthusiasm, all the while my brain was frantically trying to figure out how I could make 5 bucks appear...damn that Harry Potter, he makes it look so easy.

After tucking him back into bed and ensuring he was asleep, I scrounged around the house for quarters. Lots of them.

With my hands full of noisy change, I tiptoed into his room. It was going to be difficult, but if I could just quickly slide my hand under his pillow and drop the pound of quarters while I snatched the tooth!

I stepped into the dark room and started to feel for the tooth. I felt something weird, like a bigger body part. Like a nose.

I jumped back and turned on the light. His face is planted squarely on top of the tooth.

Now I am sitting in the kitchen with 20 quarters, fearing that tonight is the night an 8 year old kid figures out that the tooth fairy is his 6 foot tall mother.

There is no way I can get all that money under his pillow without him noticing.

Maybe I'll slip him a library movie instead.

Comments

[meginAB]

Your post reminds me of the feeling I've had the next morning. Twice (yes twice) I've had to tell my 6 year old "Oh yeah we forgot the tooth fairy doesn't come on Sundays" Lucky she's only 6. Maybe I should get more sleep.

[Sandee]

Our tooth fairy used to leave us IOU's :(