The tooth story

When the first tooth fell, in our house, it was a tough call to decide who was more excited - the kids or Mushy Mum (MM). The tooth fairy was excited too, it would seem, and overdid the gifting thing a bit, or so Sane Mum (SM) thought.

In order to put things in perspective and undo the damage, SM took great pains to explain to the kids that it was only the falling of the first tooth that was an important landmark and that for subsequent teeth the excitement (read gift) would be significantly lower.

But who's to stop the kids' from hoping?

Each time a tooth fell it was washed and cleaned with immense care and placed under the pillow. However under SM's hawk eye the tooth fairy wasn't allowed to go overboard. Were the kids disappointed? Nope. They were thrilled that the tooth fairy kept making an appearance. Soon cards were accompanying each tooth under the pillow.

Then N got two of her teeth extracted at one go (because the new ones had already come and the milk teeth refused to fall). That was some ordeal. SM gritted her teeth through it all. MM cried buckets along with N and swore she saw a tear glint in SM's eye too. Desperate to make the tears stop MM once again handed out the tooth fairy sop telling N to expect a BIG gift because she'd been so brave. A disapproving SM could only look on. N drafted a card for the tooth fairy...

















Then recently H lost another one. He lovingly placed it under his pillow along with a letter. Early next morning he lifted the pillow ... to find the tooth still there.

The tooth fairy forgot!

Apparently, even MM forgot to nudge her into action. After a long and complicated story of busy fairies the tooth was placed under the pillow yet again the next night. Kids don't give up easily you see. And would you believe it, the tooth fairy forgot... again!!

Now this was unforgivable. Even SM felt a twinge at Hrit's disappointed face. "Why isn't she coming?" he asked. "I didn't want anything from her this time". When the ever sceptical SM opened his letter here's what it said....



Just a bit of background.. this year we celebrated the twins' birthday with both sets of grandparents and a plethora of uncles, aunts and cousins. SM knew everyone would be asking them "what do you want for your birthday". To ensure they don't get swept away by this deluge of indulgent relatives she, partly seriously and partly for fun taught them to say "I don't want anything, I just want your blessing." It ended up as a family joke with the grandparents making them say it over and over again and rolling with laughter when they obliged, folded hands et al.

Never knew it would surface months later in a letter to the tooth fairy. 

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