Word To The Ys

This flashback comes courtesy of an email I sent to family & friends in 2008, when my life was turned upside down in the month of February.  Max’s tooth was knocked loose due to an accident and I found myself prematurely mourning the loss of his perfect baby-toothed smile:

Sorry for the mass email, but we wanted to let people know about a cute new development in our house.  We’ve had quite the week around these parts!
 
Last weekend, we had a sitter over on Saturday afternoon/evening while we were out.  Joe got called into work for an emergency (!) so I was out running a few errands on my own.  Joe called to let me know that Max had an accident…nothing serious, but a “run-in”, shall we say, with his kid-sized table in the basement.  He was bleeding so we both high-tailed it home as quickly as we could.
 
One of his top front teeth had been pushed VERY far back in this mouth…it was at a 45-degree angle pointing backwards.  He was a bit sore, but the “emergency” was over, so we decided to wait it out (eating mushy foods all the while) until we could get to a dentist on Monday.
 
In the pictures you’ll see the end result.  Max is pleased as can be that he has a story of heroics to share, and doesn’t seem to mind at all that he has a new grin.  His mama has had a harder time adjusting to the change.  Max was EXTREMELY brave at the dentist, and we’re all fine now, so I thought I’d pass these photos along so you won’t be too surprised the next time you see him!

 
Also, one last cute story…we found ourselves explaining the tooth fairy for the first time, and when the time came on Monday night, we made all the necessary preparations.  But a short while later Max came down, teary-eyed, from his room and said, “I don’t want the tooth fairy to have my tooth…I want to keep it!”  So he did.  If you’re as brave as he is, you can ask to see it the next time you visit our house. 
 
Oh, and my wallet got stolen (from CHURCH!!!) on Wednesday night, but that story is much less fun to tell.  Never a dull moment…
Courtney and the Boys

It’s hard to believe that he’s lost two more teeth since then, and that that neighbor up top is wiggly now, too.  Before I know it he’ll have a mouth full of permanent teeth.  Heck, before I know it he’ll be sprouting a moustache.  His first tooth lost is still in a orange plastic molar-shaped box; it even travelled to North Carolina to be seen and believed by my Crazy Aunt Linda and her less-crazy husband Uncle Bill.  And Max has definitely revised his former stance on the tooth fairy; he now happily exchanges teeth for silver dollars or whatever the ‘ol gal has in her coin purse.

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Oh, MN…how I love you for this awesome Spring you are bestowing upon us.  I’m sorry I mumbled obscenities under my breath at you all winter and kicked you in the shins.

With the blessedly abnormal spring weather comes the compulsion to clean this place out.  And by “place”, I mean lots of things: the storage rooms and closets.  The grimy rooms themselves.  And even my email account.

You are maybe scratching your head at that last one, but here’s the skinny: my gmail account had, until three days ago, over 250 messages just sitting in the inbox.  Many of them needed to be looked at a bit more closely and then discarded.  Many were of a sentimental nature and needed to be filed away into neatly-labelled folders.  (Does anyone else do this?  Now that actual letters are so rare, I find myself keeping emails that make me emotional.  They’re in a folder labelled “Warm fuzzies”.  I just can’t help myself.)  Now I have only 20 messages in my inbox, mostly things that I need to look at or think about one more time before they are deleted forever.  It was a long process, de-cluttering my inbox, but it feels so much better now that I’ve done it.

And I found real gems; gems worthy of sharing here and thereby cataloguing them in one more set of annals.  These mostly (if not completely) predate this blog, and I’m starting a new category for them called “Flashbacks”.  I hope you enjoy hearing some things about me and my Ys pre-2009.

And don’t worry…I’m also cleaning the bathroom.  Perpetually.

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