The Tooth Fairy

This morning a very sad TT came downstairs to tell us that the Tooth Fairy did not come last night.  She still had her tooth and she didn't have any money.  Oops.  DH and I both completely forgot.  She lost the tooth while at PS's robotics competition yesterday afternoon, so there was a lot going on, and she didn't say much more about it the rest of the day. But still, parent fail.

And my kids are too old and too smart to believe in the Tooth Fairy. I told TT this morning that maybe the Tooth Fairy hid the money in her room and she needed to clean her room to find her money. She replied that I was just trying to trick her into cleaning her room.

I am 100% sure that they do not actually believe in the Tooth Fairy.  But we still pretend that they do. TT was bummed this morning, and I really just wanted to hand over a dollar and tell her to move on.  But I didn't--instead I made up excuses for the Tooth Fairy. I'm not sure why.  I guess because I felt like we sold out Santa too early with PS.  When she was about 7 she asked point blank about Santa.  I didn't want to lie to her, so I told her.  I really wish I had fibbed and let her hold onto the Santa magic a little bit longer.

I have no intention about coming clean about Santa to the twins. (Yeah, I know they've figured him out, too--but Santa make Christmas fun, and he brings gifts that mom would never buy.). But the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny--I would be ok if they would hop on along their merry way.