An Unreliable Service Report

A TERRIBLE thing happened in our house last night.

...Wait for it…the tooth fairy forgot to come.

I know, I know…you’re probably thinking the same thing I was thinking when I found out; it’s because we live on the mountain.  Cell service is sketchy, internet service is slow, and apparently all correspondence between the Tooth Fairy and 6 year olds who lose their teeth at school is also imprecise.

I have to just clarify one very important point, though, before you jump to conclusions - this was NOT Toby’s first lost tooth.  The tooth fairy DOES, in fact, know where we live, and she DID come through TRIUMPHANTLY with the first tooth, offering a congratulatory note AND a whole TWONIE to the monetary-naïve child.  I was expecting nothing more than a loonie or a quarter on this second time around, but NONE of us were anticipating a blank slate…

I am partially relieved and partially saddened to report that the other parents at soccer have informed us this morning that this is NOT the first time the tooth fairy has overlooked a newly-toothless child.  Whereas Santa NEVER leaves a child unnoticed on Christmas Eve, according to the parents of the Skye Blue 5/6 Collingwood Soccer Club team, this has happened before and quite possibly MAY happen again.  Interestingly, there is also apparently an exponential increase in the tooth fairy’s forgetfulness that is proportionate to the number of children in the family.  With this being only the 2^nd tooth of our first child it means only one thing; Mia is screwed.

There are lots of hypotheses as to the whereabouts of said Tooth Fairy last night.  I, personally, am blaming it on the 2014 FIFA World Cup of Soccer.  I, being the good little mother that I am, went to bed on time whereas my husband stayed up WAY past his bedtime to catch up on all of the PVR’d games of the day.   I DO remember saying to him, SOMETHING to the effect of, “DON’T stay up too late or you MAY have to contend with the Tooth Fairy in the middle of the night.”

My advice was not heeded.

I was, quite smugly, glad that it was to Rob’s side of the bed that our tragically tearful 6 year old lamented his miserly-woes at the early hour of 6:45 this morning.  Toby usually sleeps in until 8am but had awoken EARLY this Saturday morning to see what the Tooth fairy had left him.

The mystery may never be completely solved but one thing is certain : no matter HOW exciting the PVR’d soccer games are tonight, the tooth fairy WILL appear to collect tooth #2.  And, as Toby has been reassured by ALL of the Collingwood soccer moms AND both sets of grandmothers, he is SURE to receive a HIGHER sum of money as a result of her forgetfulness….so much for it only being a loonie this time…