Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Worst. Parents. Ever.

There are few things worse than waking up to your child crying. One of those things is when you realize it's your fault...

My poor sweet Abigail had a VERY disappointing morning. The Tooth Fairy forgot to come! Ordinarily, this would be disappointing for any child, but this was especially bad. This was the tooth she had extracted yesterday. The one we told her the Tooth Fairy would leave EXTRA for because the dentist took it out. The one that caused her much discomfort and made it hard for her to eat because she has to be careful. The one that is GIGANTIC because the root is still fully in tact. THE TOOTH!

I awoke to the sound of her crying and entering my room. Tears were flowing as she announced, "She didn't come!" Immediately, I had words run through my head that I'll not share here. Then came the thoughts I can share. HOW could we FORGET? After all the poor thing had been through, HOW did we not remember? Now what? How do we explain this one away? What does the Tooth Fairy need to do to restore my daughter's faith in her?

I feel absolutely horrible about this. Horrible! :-( I let her down. How could I?

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3 comments:

Christine D. said...

I'm so sorry - PLEASE don't beat yourself up. I know you feel horrible. But you didn't mean to. It's gonna be okay. (((hugs))) You've had two kids with two split heads in over a week, plus everything else that's happening... (((hugs)))

Maybe you can say that her tooth was so big, it takes extra long for the tooth fairy to bring it back and then she'll be back tonight with a nice extra big reward. Or maybe you can say because she's bringing extra for a reward, it's taking another night to get there because the tooth fairy is so little?? Lots of hugs!

Monica said...

What Chris said.... {{{{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}}}}

ham1299 said...

Thanks, ladies! I took her to Target and let her pick out a toy. I told her the Tooth Fairy told me to let her get something special today and that she'll definitely be by tonight to get the tooth. That seemed to make her happy.

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