Writing Family: Retiring the Tooth Fairy By Sherry Antonetti eatsleepwrite.net/toothfairy via Eat Sleep Write The tooth fairy was just offered a golden denture retirement package. She currently resides in Key West sipping frozen salted drinks and learning the words to every Jimmy Buffett song ever written, even the one about the mandolin. Her reason for quitting? Overwork. My six year old daughter began losing her front first tooth about a week ago. At the announcement of the impending loss, I felt a surge of panic. She had been outside falling off her bike when her brother’s four year old head met her chin on the way down. There are mothers out there with baby books where there is a drawing of the inside of a mouth with lines pointing to each tooth, and the date of emergence and date of departure have been dutifully marked. I am not one of them. I racked my brain for the GPS of prior teeth she had lost without successful recall. Was this a baby tooth that had been loosened? All I knew for certain, was if I failed to get this checked, the tooth was a permanent one that could have been saved if only I had acted quickly. My motherhood neurotic tendencies run towards ruing the sins of omission. Eat Sleep Write Authors. Sharing. Conversations. Broaden your readership on Eat Sleep Write Submission Guidelines: eatsleepwrite.net/submissions Submissions:eatsleepwrite.net/submissions Poetry Submissions: eatsleepwrite.net/poetrysubmissions Advertising: eatsleepwrite.net/advertising Author Spotlight: EatSleepWrite.net/authorspotlight Twitter: https://twitter/EatSleepWriting Facebook: https://facebook/EatSleepWrite LinkedIn: linkedin/in/adamscull Wattpad: wattpad/user/EatSleepWriteDotNet Pinterest: pinterest/EatSleepWrite/
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 05:49:57 +0000
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