Comments | carrie_leigh: Once you start losing molars, the Tooth Fairy becomes uninterested.

carrie_leigh

Once you start losing molars, the Tooth Fairy becomes uninterested.

Oct 04, 2013 08:28

As a mother, I do some things very, very well. I won't list them all here, but my children are loved and fed and clothed and they only get the occasional beating.

But among the List of Things That Carrie Does Poorly, the Tooth Fairy tops the list. You can read about that here, if you like.

Ugh. The freaking tooth fairy. UGH.

( The Tooth Fairy is lackadaisical, lazy, and may have a touch of dementia. )

i have issues, my twisted sense of humor, drama, wine, cute kid story

Comments 9

heyurs October 4 2013, 15:50:49 UTC

Best Friday story EVER! *LOLOL* x)

You tickle me to pieces, Carrie. ♥

carrie_leigh October 5 2013, 16:25:42 UTC

Thanks, Urs.

jandjsalmon October 5 2013, 00:39:00 UTC

Hilarious. I love your family.

ALSO - in completely different news. Have you ever participated in a 'prompt' fic fest? I'm considering trying something new for my fic exchange and I just want to get people's opinions who've done both.

carrie_leigh October 5 2013, 16:22:46 UTC

Yes, I've done the Interhouse_Fest twice, I think, with I think success. I like it.

jandjsalmon October 6 2013, 06:01:50 UTC

Thanks! :)

eustacia_vye28 October 5 2013, 15:01:51 UTC

Oh man, Carrie. This reminds me that we have to figure out what we're going to do when Maddy starts losing teeth. And yanno, the going rate for teeth. Jay remembers getting a quarter, I remember getting a dollar. O_O

You're a good mom, even if you're not a natural tooth fairy. :)

carrie_leigh October 5 2013, 16:24:31 UTC

I admire the natural tooth fairies. I do. And we had friends who gave their kids FIVE BUCKS. WHAT?! $5 for teeth? You're out of your mind. I'd give them % dollars for a lot of things, but not teeth.

eustacia_vye28 October 5 2013, 16:31:30 UTC

I don't think I got $5 for anything as a kid. I would get $1 for A's or 100's, and my allowance (starting when I was 12 or 13, not whe I was little!) was $2/week. Yeah, we didn't have a lot of money, but my parents also didn't believe in paying me to do something I was supposed to do.

mollywheezy October 9 2013, 11:52:29 UTC

ROTFL! I don't have kids, but I would be a horrible tooth fairy.

When I was in college, I often babysat my pastor's children, and once babysat them over a long weekend, during which I had to play the tooth fairy. There was no cute tooth holder . . . the tooth was under the kid's pillow and how the heck am I supposed to find the tooth in the dark without waking up the sleeping kid? So I left the tooth and the money since I couldn't find the tooth. This caused issues the next morning when the six-year-old wanted to know why her tooth was still there. I told her it was the special Tooth Fairy Double Bonus and she got to put it under her pillow again. That really made her happy, and I told her parents when they got back. Thankfully her older sister didn't tell on me even though she was rolling her eyes at my Fairy Ineptitude. And speaking of grossness . . . Yes. teeth are gross. And this was not even my kid.