The tooth fairy at our house has not always done due diligence with our children and several times through the years various seven year olds have woken up to no money and teeth still under the pillow.  Tears were always a part of these sad morns at the Hatch House.

With Andrew and Ben she has tried to be more diligent in making certain to swipe the teeth and leave the money, but alas, some days it just did not happen.  When Andrew was seven, one day in an overwhelm of guilt she gave him twenty bucks for a random tooth to make up for the other three she had forgotten.

These types of events in family life become legend, and were not a problem as Andy was the youngest for so long.  But Ben had heard the story and for his last two teeth asked if I thought the tooth fairy would give him twenty bucks for his first little baby teeth.  Both times before the Fairy was broke and so she only left him a dollar or two.  But last night she actually remembered to grab the tooth and happened to have twenty bucks on hand.  So she paid him for the tooth.

This morning I asked Ben if he was planning to pay tithing on the money and he said, “no way, it’s mine.”  He’s planning to buy nerf gun number six and a huge pack of bullets with the cash.  He’s been saving up for that gun for a long time, had 53 cents in his bank, and now will have enough to get the gun.

I guess we are going to have to have Family Home Evening Lesson number 17 on why we are blessed to pay ten percent of our income in Tithing to Heavenly Father.

Jenny Hatch