We had to stop to take Sarah to the school for open gym, and then we came back and worked some more, and then we had to stop again to take Emily to the school for basketball practice, so we kept getting distracted. I got the shelves put back up (busted out some power tools to do it too.hehehe) and got some other shelves anchored to the wall and they got a lot of stuff put away. They got in there and they really started working. However, that has nothing to do with the dirty laundry all over the floor, or the garbage in general that was spread out all over the place.

And well, it's hard to put things away when the shelves aren't there. We rearranged a month or two ago, and I had to take some of their shelves off of the wall in order to do it, and things kept distracting me and I didn't get the shelves put back up. Let me start off by saying that I do take responsibility for some of the mess in this room. Probably the most common question was 'did it work?'

That one kind of bugged me too, but I just chalked it up to someone not being familiar with the story. I have The Dude, but he doesn't live here, and he's not their father. Too bad that was on a share too, so I couldn't comment and tell that person that there is no father in this house. There was another that wanted to know why she had to ask THE MOTHER and not THE FATHER. I'm pretty sure that not getting her buck for her tooth until her room is clean is going to put her in therapy. One comment that really kind of ticked me off annoyed me caught my eye was on one of the shares, where someone said something to the effect of me being a horrible mother, and my kid was going to be scarred for life. It makes it much easier for the Tooth Fairy to find the tooth under the pillow in the bed if it's in this, and then the money gets stuck in the pocket so that it doesn't get lost either. I got it when I was little, and the kids have all used it. If you look at this post you can see a picture of the tooth pillow. What's a tooth pillow? I saw that comment somewhere. Plus, there were several inanimate bodies in the bed as well as a bunch of extra pillows and covers and all sorts of crap that made it next to impossible to find the tooth pillow under her pillow. So I hate when they sleep in the same bed. And it irritates me to no end - whenever they sleep in the same bed, they end up fighting over the covers or who kicked who in the face or whose breath stinks the worst or whatever. The only other live body was that of her 13 year old sister, who insists on sleeping in the bottom bunk with Emily more often than not. Yes, Emily is 11 years old, so no, there are no boys in her bed (unless one of her brothers sneaks in there during the night). The most common question related to the 'bodies' in the bed.

And I might have a lazy streak in me at times. There were a few questions raised, and rather than attempt to answer them through comments on facebook, I figured I'd just address them all here.

It seems like even the most innocent share can trigger the haters and trolls to come out of the woodwork - so I got really nervous when I saw the numbers exploding after I posted it. I would say that well over 99% of the comments that I received and/or saw on other pages were positive - something that shocks me. Really? It was just a silly letter to try to get my kid to clean her room. More than 300 new people have come to my facebook page and have 'liked' that as well. Now, here I sit less than 24 hours later.and there are almost 1900 likes on it on facebook and it has been shared almost the same number of times. I thought that a few people would get a chuckle out of it, and that would be it.

Funny toothfairy letter