Tooth Fairy Chronicles

In the latest chapter of the Tooth Fairy Chronicles we will be discussing what a loser the tooth fairy actually is...

Emily lost another tooth. This one the last of the famed first four teeth (unless your Squishy, in which case your teeth came in vampire style). The front right tooth this time. This one wiggled and jiggled for DAYS before it came out and we had to hear about it everyday over and over. So when Emi woke up on Monday morning and it finally fell out we all rejoiced! We placed it in a safe place and off to school she went...No big deal. When she got off the bus that afternoon she was pretty excited to tell me all about her friend Alyssa who had lost her first tooth on Sunday night and came to school Monday morning covered in tooth fairy dust (aka glitter) and wondered why the tooth fairy never left her any dust.... There really should be tooth fairy protocol, but that is a grip I will have to take up with Alyssa's mom on another day. Emi proceeded to tell me about the glitter on Alyssa's eyes and hair and you get the picture...me bad fairy, Mrs. Paoletti great fairy. We talked about it and that seemed to be the end of the story. The afternoon progressed, my darlings made me crazy and Emi ended up getting sent to bed 10 minutes before the others. We still put her tooth out for the fairy and what not, but she was upset and I was frazzled. The tooth fairy forgot to stop by. Not necessarily an unusual event, this particular fairy has been slightly unreliable. Except, Emily did not forget. When I went to wake her up Tuesday morning I noticed a small piece of paper stuffed in the window frame....it read..."Dear Tooth Fairy, please leave duste." It had a place for the tooth fairy to leave her name and included a picture of Emily sleeping in bed and the fairy floating down and sprinkling her with "duste". Dagger in the heart, the first of many complete mothering failures I'm sure. I was crushed. Not only did the fairy forget and not bring "duste," but she sent a sweet innocent little girl to bed sad. There would be some serious make-up on the part of the loser tooth fairy now. She did come Tuesday night even though Emily literally sleeps with her eyes open. It took a few tries, but this time the fairy came and left a note along with $$ and "duste." The note, written in incredibly tiny letters on a small piece of shiny pink paper read, "Dear Emily, Thank you for the picture. It was lovely. I ran out of dust as I am very small and can only carry so much. I can only come to three houses a night because that is all the teeth I can carry. They are very big! I made sure to come to your house first tonight so I would have enough dust for you. I hope it lasts through the night. You are a very special girl, Santa told me so. Be good! Brush your teeth often. I really like the shiny white ones! Trixie, Tooth Fairy." In her mind it seemed to clear the air and tied up some other loose tooth fairy ends. Phew! I will be a better mother, I will be a better mother, I will be a ...