• Family,  Parenting

    The Tooth Fairy ran out of Money

    Last week our Tooth Fairy ran out of money.   All she had in her pretty little purse was 65 cents and she really did not feel this was enough for our little Chanel. That evening, I had taken the girls and a couple of their friends from school to the local skating rink for cheap Tuesday Skating.  Chanel bumped into another learner skater and further loosened her already wobbly top front tooth.   While Chanel was not hurt, she was now able to wobble it much more than what she could do previously….and believe me, every time she wobbled it – my tummy turned.  I can not look at…

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    Oompa Loompa’s live at Kmart Caloundra

    I am guilty of lying to my children.  I have encouraged them to believe in Santa, the Tooth fairy, the Easter Bunny and Oompa Loompa’s!  I made the lie more authentic by creating an email address – not for the Oompa Loompa’s, but the others. However, because i find it hard to swallow that these mysteriously pretend characters get all the praise for our hard work of buying our kids their Christmas presents….Santa and the Easter Bunny have found themselves affected by the GFC.  In fact all three of them are having some money woes.  Santa and his friends come and leave their wares, but the value of  the gifts…