We were getting ready to head to the hospital today and I was fixing my hair when Leesha came in and said "Mom, you can pull my tooth. I am ready." Okay, now get this. I have an aversion to teeth, snot, and anything slobbery except for babies. I can handle babies but when it comes to pulling teeth. UGH, NO WAY!!! When you pull teeth there is always that pop of a membrane coming loose! AY YI YI YIYIYI! So here's the dilemma going through my mind at the time she said that and I was processing it and giving her an answer. This all happened within about 45 seconds. umm...no I won't pull your tooth, pull it yourself, there is slobbering and popping of membranes involved and you are my child. I will be the one making it hurt a little and bleed a lot. ....um but if I don't take this opportunity now I have to watch her play with that stinking tooth for how many more days? It is laying almost vertical. It isn't going to be that hard. Once it is out she can't play with it and drive me nuts anymore. Oh, but do I have time to do Tooth Fairy stuff tonight. Do I even have a dollar in my wallet? Do I have time to get the money before tonight? Oh shoot, it is her first tooth. BUCK UP MOM! You have done many things in your life that you have hated because you are Mom!! So Do it. SOOOOO....after giving myself a very quick pep talk, I said: "Okay, big girl, let's go to the table."
I got a napkin and explained that it would hurt for just a second just like her shots did but then the pain would go away quickly. It would also bleed but probably for not very long. Okay, DEEP BREATHE for mom ....Leesha just opened her mouth. Okay, come on....I am the mom I am not supposed to be doing this to my child, Right???? Another deep breathe and I pull but it doesn't come out!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!! So the second time, I made sure that I had a good hold on this tooth and pulled. Yes, it POPPED!!! *shivers* But the tooth came out and Leesha was so excited. So excited, in fact, she dropped her tooth and we couldn't find it. We looked for a good ten minutes. She called Daddy in tears because she had lost her first loose tooth. Daddy was able to calm her down and said he would call the Tooth Fairy and tell her that Leesha lost a tooth and she needed to come visit but Leesha dropped the tooth so we don't have that. Well, this child is too much like her mother. Was that the end of it? NO!! She was sad all day! Even after I explained to her that she shouldn't let this little thing ruin the excitement of losing her first tooth. Well, that didn't go over well at all. It was her first tooth she had lost and there would never be another first tooth lost again. She said losed again. LOL!! Man, she is way too much like me. So today I overcame the "yuck" factor of pulling a tooth and did the Mom thing. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do. I AM MOM HEAR ME ROAR!!!!!! LOL!!
So we went to the hospital and helped my friend with her baby and came back home around 6 pm. So what am I doing at 6 pm this evening? I am back down on the dining room floor looking for a tooth! The things we mothers do for our children's happiness! I was looking for about three minutes and I found it. Let me tell you what, the hug I received when I showed her that tooth was worth every single minute down on that floor looking for that tooth. She was so excited about finding this tooth. It was amazing. So anyway, the Tooth Fairy is ready! Just waiting for a certain little one to go to sleep.
As I was sitting here thinking about how excited Leesha was to find that lost tooth; I started thinking about how excited Christ is when he has found just one lost sheep. The past couple of weeks we have been doing some major church planning and Luke 15 was presented in such a way that I have never heard before.
Now I have heard, read, and studied Luke 15 many times before but it never hit me like it has this past week. Luke 15 tells 3 different stories. One is of the shepherd looking for his sheep, the other the woman looking for one piece of silver, and the Father waiting for the Prodigal son to come home. Christ searches for each of us, when we allow Him to find us and accept his personal gift of salvation he rejoices and there is a party in Heaven. There was a party in Heaven for me almost 17 years ago. WOW, that is one amazing thing to think on! You know, you don't always have to look deep into theology for Christ to speak to you. In fact, God speaks to us in the every day things including a daughter's first lost tooth! The joy she had when I found that lost tooth is exactly what Christ feels every time a person is saved only 1000 times more. It reminds me to daily be a witness for him. I may be the only person that comes into that person's life who can show them how much Christ loves them. I am hungry to see that Joy in the life of a new Christian and to have my own party with the Lord when that person is saved. Sometimes we "old" Christians forget the Joy of being newly saved. I am so glad that the Lord gave me this insight today and so glad that the Joy of the Lord is my strength!
Good night all and I am off to play Tooth Fairy!! I think Daddy is going to help also!! Oh by the way, the other tooth is about ready to go also. In fact, remember how I was thinking that if I pulled this tooth I wouldn't have to watch her play with it anymore. Well, the one beside it is almost ready and now she is playing with that one. As far as pulling the second one, I think I will leave that for Daddy!! He needs to experience this one as well!! ROFL!!! Brian also has a teeth pulling aversion. In fact, it just might be worse than mine!
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