i am terrible at having cash on me. i just always use a card.
i wish i was better at carrying cash for many reasons.
examples include.. i wouldn't have to use a debit card for embarrassingly small purchases, i would have something to give a person who is in need, i would be able to pay my kids the money i promise them when they do special chores, aaaand i would have money when the time comes to impersonate that dang tooth fairy.
which leads me into the story i'd like to share..
chet has now lost 3 teeth. 2 on the bottom and 1 on the top.
the top one was the most recent one to fall out.
i was kinda sad when that one got wiggly because i knew it would really change the way chet looked (not in a vain way, just in a growing up way).
but once it had been wiggly for a couple days, and eventually got to the point where it was sitting horizontally instead of vertically, i was very ready for it to go!
one night when we were at grandma and grandpa leavitt's house, grandpa larry pulled a sneaky trick on chet.
as we were just about ready to leave, grandpa larry asked chet if he could see how wiggly his tooth was.
chet agreed, grandpa larry got his fingers on it, and POP! that tooth was out.
and then grandpa immediately handed chet a $5 bill.
chet's reaction was priceless!
at first, he wasn't sure if he should be sad about the tooth or happy about the money.
but, since he rarely has "paper money", and his tooth was on the verge of falling out anyways, he decided it was a pretty wicked trade.
when we got home that night, we scooted the kids up to bed, enjoyed some kid-less time, and then realized as we were heading up to bed that we had NO money to put under chet's pillow!
like, literally nothing!
any change we ever have lying around the house is always swiped up by our kids and stashed in their piggy banks.
so we had to make a choice: make the tooth fairy look bad OR put money from chet's piggy bank under chet's pillow.
neither were ideal.. so we chose to steal from our child's piggy bank!
haha so sorry chet!
hopefully next time we are more prepared.
i am regretting ever starting that silly tooth fairy tradition.
we are only 3 teeth in, of the 60 our kids have to loose over the next 10 years, and we already suck.
shoot!
