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My fans have requested an update and so I must oblige! Ha ha ha!

Here goes!

Sunday, Quinn bit into pretzel and jarred her lower incisor loose. It was a little wiggly to start, but she really popped it eating that pretzel. All day, she couldn't leave it alone and finally on Monday morning, she yanked it out. She said she couldn't stand going to school with it hanging in her mouth. Great! Monday night she told me to remind the tooth fairy to come and she placed her tooth on her dresser with a note. I told her, "No worries! I'll tell her to stop by!".

Of course, the dang tooth fairy forgot to come! I think there is probably another post somewhere in my blog about this darned tooth fairy forgetting at least one other time. I told Quinn we needed to fire her then and I guess I was right!

So, Quinn gets up Tuesday very disappointed that her four quarters are nowhere in sight and the knarly tooth is still sitting on her dresser. Thinking fast, I told her, "you know what? It frosted last night. I am betting that the tooth fairy's wings weren't up to speed because of the frost, so she didn't get all her teeth picked up." I went on and elaborated, "you know how wasps and bees can't fly at night because of the cold. Same for tooth fairy's!" She seemed to buy it. I said, "It's going to be nice and warm today. I bet she makes up her flight pattern and stops in sometime this morning or afternoon before you get home from school." Quinn said, "really?" and smiled. I said, "Sure! I have errands to run , so I bet she comes while I'm gone!" Sure enough, that tooth fairy did come while I was gone (wink, wink).

Quinn got home from school and checked on her tooth, found the quarters, and exclaimed, "MOM! I know you're the tooth fairy!" I said, "What?!" very incredulously. She said, "I wrote her a note and she wrote back. There is no way the tooth fairy could hold that big pencil and write so big on my paper!" I said, "Hey! You believe in magic, right!?" and she said, "Yes." and I said, "Then I am not the tooth fairy!" and left it at that.

We have had many talks about the tooth fairy and how we have been assigned the cheap one. We haven't figured out how the routing works at tooth fairy world, but it seems there are some weird boundaries on our street due to the variation in rewards given for each tooth collected. Our poor tooth fairy has had such a bad rep for so long, my kids just believe we got the slacker.

Oh well, when you're keeping up so many persona's (i.e. Santa, Tooth Fairy, Mom, Chauffeur, Girl Scout leader, Great Pumpkin, Leprechaun, and Easter Bunny), one is sure to suffer!

Have a great weekend!

Hugs and prayers to all who are fighting cancer in my life. You are always in my heart.