Open Thread

Lech, it’s fun for the kids and they’ll figure out soon enough, likely way sooner than you expect, that the Tooth Fairy isn’t real. Mrs C left money and a note under Champ #1’s pillow after losing the first tooth around 6 year’s old and Champ #1 immediately noticed that the note was written on the back of a scrap piece of paper from our home. The belief in the Tooth Fairy therefore lasted all of 5 minutes. Champ #2 got a fancy note from the Tooth Fairy after that and loved it. I think you’ll look back on this time as pretty magical and maybe even long for the days they were so innocent and imaginative.

I can speak as a former kid who was told straight out there was Santa Claus from Day 1. Go along with it.

I always resented the fact that I never got to do the whole secular Christmas thing growing up. I plan to go overboard with it.

My typical morning:

Woke up, fell out of bed,
Dragged a comb across my head;
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup;
And looking up, I noticed I was late.
Found my coat and grabbed my hat,
Made the bus in seconds flat;
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke;
Somebody spoke and I went into a dream

My oldest kid has her first loose tooth. Probably going to fall out in the next couple of days. I have no intention of lying to her about the existence of some mythical being that flies into her room and takes the tooth and gives her money. I’ll just tell her if she puts the tooth under her pillow I’ll give her a quarter. I also have no intention of lying about santa claus if any of my kids ever get around to asking me whether he is real. The Mrs says this is super unfair and I should tell them the tooth fairy and santa claus are real.

Show of hands: on a scale of 1 to 10, just how right am I?