The Forgetful Toothfairy

So last night we are all sitting down to eat dinner and A jumps out of her chair with blood oozing from her mouth. She lost her 3rd tooth! We then found it in the pizza on her plate...yummy! Anywho, she was soooo excited, just about to cry! And totally could not wait until bedtime to put in under her pillow. As we tucked her in, she tucker her tooth under her pillow and said goodnight!

What a great night sleep we all had! It was nearly 7:30 before any noise peeped from my kiddos. A was first to arrive. She peeked around my foot board with a terrible look on her face. "Mom, I waited for hours and hours, and the Tooth fairy never came," she said. As you can imagine, I just about lost all feeling in my belly. Oh man! What have I done? How could I have forgotten? What to do now?

Well, she climbed in bed with me and I asked her "what do you think happened?" She proceeded to tell me that their was another child in Africa that lost their tooth last night and the Tooth fairy couldn't make it back to our home in time. Oh, how my heart was breaking! We decided that we should mail the Tooth fairy a letter ASAP so that she would not "miss her or forget to stop by." We got it in the mail just in time.....now we wait. She anticipates that the Tooth fairy will get her act together and do her job tonight.

Praise the Lord for a 5 year old with such a forgiving heart!

...NOTE to parents, Be quick to think and slow to forget :-)

jo

Preparing to say Good-Bye

What a week this has been! Watching what the Lord can do is awesome. He brought us an offer on Tuesday and we have come to an agreement today....We are under contract!!! Praise be to God and to God the Glory! Thank you to all of you that have been such prayer worriers and support to us over this past year. We have been so blessed to be in this house and pray that it can be just that for a new family.

This is a picture of our home the day we moved in, June 28th, 2005, just one month before we brought little J home. The Hubs painted, tiled, carpeted, and installed wood floors in just one month...what a man, what a man! Then, not even a year later, he was finishing the basement, what a mighty man! We were so blessed to have grandma H with us for four months! Mr. B came home just a few months later, as J then refinished the fireplace and the kitchen. What a mighty God! Anyway, as we all know, life happens so fast. But, in the meantime, we soak in God's love, power and sovereignty over our lives. We praise him this day and every day for his provision. May "our little cottage in the woods" continue to be filled with Christ's love and blessing over many more families to come.

We close on Oct 30th! Gotta get packing!

With bitter sweet tears,
jo