Yes Virginia there is a Tooth Fairy . . . . .

And it’s ME.

Yep you read that right. I am the tooth fairy. I collect used teeth and deposit change in their place. How do I travel all over the world? And what do I do with all those used teeth? Well those are trade secrets so I’m sorry but I can’t share them with you.

Actually to our first grade class I am the tooth fairy. Whenever they lose a tooth their teacher (our elementary principal and one of the most Godly women I know) sings them a song and then I perch on their desk for the day in my tooth fairy garb.

Here’s the backstory if you are really confused:

A few years ago I went to a Christmas party for all the female teachers at work. We had to bring an ornament for a gift exchange and I wanted to be creative and of course randomly absurd. I got the GREAT idea of making an angel tree topper. But of course this could not be just any angel tree topper it needed the special Katie touch. So it became the Katie the Angel tree topper. I made an angel with robe, wings, halo and all with my face plastered right there on the face of the angel. CLASSIC and pretty darn good if I do say so myself.

So we get to the gift exchange and my ornament was the party favorite but the girl who ended up with it was a party pooper and didn’t want it (I tried not to take it as a personal insult that she didn’t want my face looking down on her on Christmas day). So I switched with her and kept my own angel knowing it would one day be put to good use. That day was not far off because I soon house-sat for the party hostess and a good friend (like a big sister) and I decided her tree needed a special touch. She arrived home with her family to see my bright shiny angelic face greeting her.

Somehow soon after that the angel ended up in the main office at work and it was perched upon a trophy where everyone entering the office could see it. Let’s just say that it was a crowd pleaser and comment generator for a few weeks. Then my elementary principal gets an idea to turn it into the tooth fairy. So my angel became a fairy and traveled to the first grade room.

So now when a kid looses a tooth the fairy sits on their desk for the day signifying they are the special tooth looser. It is always fun when my principal brings it out for the first time and all the kids look at it noticing that it seems somehow familiar. Then one bright kids puts two and two together and I get called the tooth fairy for the rest of the year.

I’m always wondering when a first grader looks inquisitively at me if they're wondering where I keep my quarters of if right now I am eyeing the loose tooth they are fiddling with.

Footnote: Try as I might I cannot find the CD to download the picture of the Tooth Fairy. I will try and get it up soon.