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Confessions of a Tooth Fairy.
Today was the day
your moment of truth.
You’ve been waiting and hoping
to lose this loose tooth.
You could hardly believe it,
you cried (with joy…)
you danced round the garden
screaming “Oh boy!”
In front of the mirror
you examined your teeth,
some gaps on the top
and some underneath.
And then you got busy
writing a note
so that the tooth fairy
would give you her vote.
Fairy princess tea parties are seriously underrated.
Today, I needed Miss G to sleep. I had a lot of work to do and not much time. We spent the morning doing ‘special girl stuff’ like ballet and playing princesses with her best little friend EVER in the whole wide world, we ate lunch and I popped her into bed for a nap at midday, confident that I’d get an hour of work done as she slept.
Miss G, of course, insisted on napping in a purple fairy dress and ballet shoes – so she could have fairy dreams. Of course. I kissed her goodnight, wished her the fairyest of all fairy dreams and ran off to the study to work.
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Naturally, after fifteen minutes, I heard movement.
I sneaked down the passage to her bedroom and there she was, dancing in front of the mirror to Baby Mozart and declaring to her teddies that she was, without doubt, the prettiest fairy princess of all time. When she looked up and saw me, a look of pure panic registered on her face. Busted.
