And try to recover.
First you have a very excited 6 year old foster daughter that has lost her front tooth. Who very quickly puts her lost tooth in a zip lock bag and puts it under her pillow. Very excited that she will be receiving a visit from the toothfairy tonight who will exchange her baby tooth for some cold hard cash. Anticipating the trip to the Dollar Tree to spend her dough.
Then you stay up way too late watching tv and forget that you have to play toothfairy.
Then when said child wakes up and says, " The toothfairy didn't come last night," in a very sweet and quiet tone you........Once you are done talking to yourself in your head about how you could possible forget to do this after all the toothfairy talk yesterday... You explain that since she is not at her normal home right now the toothfairy must have gotten confused and didn't know where she was. And that we should give her another night to get it right.
It'll work like a charm.
Then make sure the tooth is once again nestled under her pillow and set an alarm on your phone so you can go make the exchange before you go to bed. $2.00 is the going rate... inflation.
Two days later when she looses her 2nd front tooth and you yet again forget to be the toothfairy, and she wakes up and says the toothfairy didn't come......
You say, " Of course she came, I will look for you in a minute."Then distract her with some kind of sugary breakfast while you very quickly go in your room and raid your change bucket because you don't have any cash and rush to her room as casually and possible and "find" the money that she somehow missed.
Then you explain away the tooth that was left behind by saying, " The toothfairy must have forgot to grab the baggie, she must have been very busy that night."
Then take her to the Dollar Tree.
I am so bad at this!!!
Jen =)
