Tuesday, April 08, 2008

White Elephants and the Tooth Fairy

Tomorrow I'm having a 1 euro sale here at the house. I've gathered up odds and ends, books, DVDs, clothes, shoes, decorations--all things that are too good to throw out but I don't want badly enough to move to yet another country. Too much trouble to actually price things, so everything is a Euro. I figure I'll move some stuff out and make a little coin for my upcoming Prague trip. So I've e-mailed a bunch of folks, but I also printed up some little handouts to give to people at school. I saw three Swedish women who all have first graders talking on the playground today and handed them each a flyer. One of them said, "What is a white elephant?" I tried to explain the concept, but I think I did a poor job because she asked, "And this is a term people really use?"

Maddie got some bad news today. Apparently, in Germany, the tooth fairy only comes for the first tooth you lose. Now the one under her pillow tonight is her first tooth, but she's already got three more that are loose. She's banking on the American tooth fairy to make the transatlantic trip for the next ones.


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