GROSS!

Last time I grocery shopped, the fridge was pretty bare, so I decided it would be a great time to clean the fridge. You know, take everything out to wash the shelves, plus clean up the spilled sticky substance at the back of the fridge. This Monday I had put some frozen chicken with some water into a large Ziploc to defrost. Dinner plans changed, and we didn't eat the chicken until Wednesday. I went to get the chicken/water/bag out of the back of the fridge and realized the bag had leaked, ALL over the backs of each shelf. Gross chicken water all over the spillproof shelves, AND the bottoms of any containers that happened to be on those shelves. I got to clean all the shelves again, plus clean all the containers that had soaked in chicken water. Not only that, but I got to mop the floor because the gross chicken water spilled while I was cleaning it up. Yea for me to get to do all this!
On the bright side, at least I hadn't been grocery shopping since the first cleaning, so the fridge shelves were getting pretty bare so there weren't too many containers to clean or food to throw away.

GROSS!!!

Continued Tradition

I can remember having a tooth fairy pillow that my mom made me. It was pink and had a little pocket for me to leave my tooth in, and the tooth fairy to leave some coins in. I loved having that special pillow. I was always worried for my friends who just put their tooth under their pillow. How could the tooth fairy find it? What if you were a wiggly sleeper and your tooth fell on the floor?

When we discovered Emily's first loose tooth we made a big deal about finding just the right fabric to make a tooth fairy pillow. Hers had to be pink Barbie fabric shaped like a heart. Man I struggled to sew the lace into a heart shaped pillow. She was six when the dentist had to help her with her first TWO teeth on the same day.

Lizzie's tooth fairy pillow HAD to be sparkly blue shaped like a diamond. Her first tooth came out when she was six. Two days later she made Jared sit with her until he had the other tooth out. It took 45 minutes of pulling and twisting. She was so insistent about it coming out that night.


Tyler's teeth don't like to come out. He was seven years old when his first tooth finally came out. It took quite some time for the other tooth to come out. He still has only lost five teeth. I think we have years until he can get braces. Of course, his pillow had to be BYU!

When Ainsley knocked out her first tooth 1 1/2 years ago, I debated about what to do for a tooth fairy pillow. I would have only had a few hours to shop and sew. Jared had just had surgery, so I was a little stressed to begin with. Plus, she would probably pick some baby fabric, and then we would be stuck with that forever. I opted to wait till she was a little older for her pillow.

A few weeks ago we discovered Ainsley's first loose teeth and began the hunt for just the right fabric. Ainsley's HAD to be pink sparkly, but it could be shaped like a circle. (I talked her out of the heart shape.) Last Saturday morning she showed me her teeth and I was able to pull the first one. The next day the second tooth came out. Two teeth in two days and she is five!

I love their tooth fairy pillows! And just think, they have been used 47 times, with only 33 to go!