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"Five o'clock rolls around on a Tuesday night. This is when I was planning to start dinner. But Caitlin needs help with a word problem. Then Talie needs me to pry some old purplish-gray Play-Doh from its jar. Then Ellie can't find the dictionary. At 5:20, I know I am pushing my luck to get chicken, rice, and squash on the table in short order. So I scrap that plan, and make it a Breakfast for Dinner night..."
"For the record, our tooth fairy has a spotty on-time attendance history. He has been known to take a few nights to get to a tooth, and his list of excuses (which I must pass on to a baffled child) is long: locked doors, noisy dogs, snow storms, restless children and missing teeth. Oh, the fairy means well ? but let's face it, the job is harder than it looks. Can we really fault him for a certain ineptness in locating rice-sized teeth in the nine seconds it takes for our children to wake up? Is our fairy in over his head? Definitely. Disgruntled? Don't ask. Ready to hang up his wings? You bet. But with about 68 teeth to go that isn't happening any time soon..."
