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Bad Mum alert: the farking toothfairy forgot to come last night. She has landed me right in it.........

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NatalieJane · 28/02/2008 07:17

So we have one tooth still under the pillow, one little boy with a broken heart, and one very guilty mum.

Shitting bollox, how do I make it up to him?

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Wisteria · 28/02/2008 08:47

I told my daughter that our tooth fairy must be really old and forgetful, so she put notes on the window to the garden to 'remind' her.....I also cunningly told her that fairies read backwards so the notes needed to be the other way round

largeginandtonic · 28/02/2008 09:17

Wisteria you are clearly a GENIUS! We have been crafty but that reading backwards thing is almost terrifying

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NatalieJane · 28/02/2008 09:28

OK I am going to look at the fairy email thingymebob, we spoke about it before he went to school and I gave him a load of reasons why she might not have been able to come, and said I am sure we will find out tonight for sure. Which he was happy with.

And my morning turned around, I got asked out, on a proper REAL date, with a proper REAL man, that isn't my husband!!! Have of course rubbed DH's nose it already

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ishouldbeironing · 28/02/2008 09:31

When the tooth fairy forgot in our house she left a note and it worked so well that my DD insisted taking the note into school.
Parents nights were so after this as all I could think of was that bloody letter every time I saw the teacher

largeginandtonic · 28/02/2008 09:31

My god NJ my dh would have a fit, i could never tell him, he would be after him like a shot

Oooer lucky you, what did you say?

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NatalieJane · 28/02/2008 09:44

LOL ishouldbeironing, I am cringing at the thought of DS1 now telling his teacher all about the forgetfull tooth fairy!

I said thanks but no, and showed him my wedding ring. And legged it quick!!!

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chopster · 28/02/2008 09:47

I forgot once, and told dd it was because she didn't put a note with it. I keep all the notes now, they are so sweet. And sometimes crafty, last time the note said that she had lost two teeth but has mislaid one so could she have £2.

TsarChasm · 28/02/2008 09:50

Yes that unreliable old toothfairy did that here once. Honestly you just can't get the staff these days

She left a note the next night. Apparantly she had broken her wing and could fly the previous night. Luckily dd didn't ask to see a doctor's note.

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NatalieJane · 28/02/2008 09:52

Ooooh broken wing, I like that idea!

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Bink · 28/02/2008 09:56

The first time our tooth fairy forgot (please note that "first" time - there have been a few, you are not alone), dd came and explained to us why she thought there might have been a problem - which is that the TF was a trainee TF and she got muddled up with the houses and went to the house next door & collected the poor elderly chap's false teeth by mistake!

(I think she got this out of a story book, but (a) it was nice of her to come up with a reason herself and (b) it's a very useful one. Feel free to borrow!)

bentneckwine1 · 28/02/2008 10:00

The toothfairy missed my son once...the next night there was a note explaining that she had spent the whole of the previous night transporting rotten teeth that had been taken out of some child's mouth who ate too many sweeties and didn't brush his teeth...
She went on to say that she hadn't wanted to take my son's sparkling white tooth in the same fairy bag as the rotten ones as she wanted to keep the nice tooth to decorate her toothfairy castle!! She hoped he wasn't too upset at having to wait an extra night and left him a shiny coin to replace the sparkling tooth!!

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NatalieJane · 28/02/2008 12:12

Aren't we all a big bunch of liars????! Brilliant ones though!!!

I know where to come when I've gone over board in the Trafford Centre and need to hide it from DH!

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OneHandedTypist · 28/02/2008 13:52

DC have decided a their teeth r worth more than a poxy 50p so now refuse 2 leave their teeth under pillow 4 TF.
Very strange 4 such materialistic kids who regularly make long wishlists out of Argos catalog.

shabster · 28/02/2008 21:21

This has been one of the best threads I have been on since joining MN in January.

Nataliejane - your opening sentence was ace - farking toothfairy - it has been a good one

purpleduck · 28/02/2008 21:37

I always inform the kids that the toothfairy sometimes can't come on the same night - depends how busy she is, when she got the message etc etc. Covers my butt!!

Kindersurpise · 28/02/2008 21:47

Am taking notes for the future. DD is desperate for a tooth to start wobbling. And I am so scatty, I am bound to forget.

I forgot the St Niklas boots one year and had to sneak down stairs at 3am. If she had went into kindergarten and said that St Niklas forget her, I would have been exported.

ROFL at the Traffic jam with and overturned troll and the National Elf Service

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NatalieJane · 29/02/2008 08:22

Morning

Well the tooth fairy left him a note explaining that she dropped her magic wand and fairy dust in the river. Dolly the Duck thought the fairy dust was sherbet and ate it all up, and then turn pink. By the time the toothfairy had made some more magic dust in was morning and too late to collect her teeth....

Bless him, as soon as my alarm went off this morning he came bounding in to tell us she'd been!

I left him £4, double what he had last time for being late, he was more than happy with it, but I had to spend 5 minutes trying to wake my eyes up enough for him to read the date on the coins!

I think he was more pleased with having had a letter from the tooth fairy, than he was with the £4!

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Buda · 29/02/2008 09:38

Oh NJ that sounds lovely!

Wisteria · 29/02/2008 10:55

Enid Blyton would be proud of you NJ

maisykins · 29/02/2008 11:07

Tooth fairy was meant to visit us last night - having forgotten in the past we put reminders on our own pillows so we remember before we go to bed! Then we couldnt find the damn tooth. Tooth fairy got out her torch and was crawling round under the bed and all. Woke DD in the process of trying and gave up. Found out this morning that DD had decided she didnt want the tooth fairy to have it after all and had hidden it away.

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NatalieJane · 29/02/2008 13:51

LOL Maisy, got visions of that in my head!

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smartiejake · 29/02/2008 14:53

OOps! I've done this a few times. I told my dd that the tooth fairy was probably having a day off or a little holiday or perhaps she was in bed with a cold.

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