I was supposed to be the Tooth Fairy last night. I was up till around 2 a.m. and had cash for it and everything, but it just slipped my mind. When I went in to wake the sparklebutt for school, she was sitting in bed in tears. "Mommy, the tooth fairy never came!!I never went to sleep and she didn't come!!"
Oh. Fuck.
I had to do some quick thinking. Luckily for me, this child really, really wants to believe in fairies. I told her to wait and let me see if the tooth fairy had maybe left it anyplace else. I nabbed a crisp dollar bill out of my purse and put it in a tiny plastic ziploc bag. "Look what I found!!! Did you sleep on the couch last night? Because I found this under Mommy's skull blankie on the couch! Silly tooth fairy!" She totally went for it.
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