Friday wrap up

The Tooth Fairy came last night.

She left a buck and four quarters.

Mar was thrilled. There is something about quarters that gets her all jazzed up — I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that quarters fit nicely into candy machines.

We decided to use the envelope trick that my mom used on my brother and I when we lost teeth.

See we had Mar write, "To Tooth Fairy From Margaret" on a whole bunch of envelopes (stating that she had a lot of teeth to lose, so we'd better stock up on envelopes). Then we sealed her two, tiny baby teeth inside one of the envelopes and tucked it under her pillow when she went to bed last night.

This morning she woke to find the envelope still under her pillow but instead of containing teeth, it had two dollars in it. (For those feeling a bit slow this Friday, we took the envelope with teeth and replaced it with another envelope which she had pre-addressed — we can totally trick a 5-year-old kid!)

Um, let's see ... Oh, we're probably going to go back up on the mountain tomorrow so Mar can have her second ski lesson.

I'm debating on staying home and doing some much needed cleaning or going along to stand tearfully at the edge of the bunny hill and watch my little nut shush around.

Yeah, it's a total toss up.

My very dear friend performed a miracle Monday and gave birth to this blessed bundle.

He's just about the cutest thing. Babies ... sigh.

And for those unconvinced that giving birth is a miracle: Growing a person inside of another person and then expelling that new person through a normally very tiny hole, is not only a miracle, but the most amazing thing the human body can do.

That's about it. I'm anxious for this workday to be over (7 hours to go).