This here is Taylor's purrtee lil' smile. Isn't it nice?
It didn't come cheap. As many of you will find out sooner or later, it's either orthdontics or college. Choose wisely.
So, you can guess how happy we were (dad's joy knew no bounds) when she informed us that she "misplaced" her retainers some time ago. Ya, like 2 weeks, which became 3 and then 4.
My threats to make her pony up the cash for a new set, didn't seem bring on even the slightest sense of urgency. When asked, "When was the last time you wore them?" She scrunched up her face into the most pathetic I've-got-to-look-like-I'm-concentrating-
really-hard-on-this-one-or-my-butt-is-toast face. I had to stiffle a laugh. I know that face too well. It's almost always followed by some not so skillful lying through her teeth, her perfectly straight teeth, that is.
She made the call to the the ortho.
"Um, hi, this is Taylor Kilgore. I'm a patient of Dr. Novak. I think I might have sort of kind of misplaced my retainers and I need to know how much it costs to replace them."
"Oh, wow. Um, thanks."
Like $330, wow!
At this point, we had already looked everywhere obvious and even places not so obvious. She did a good job of decluttering her room and actually cleaning it, instead of the usual relocate the mess to make it look like some work was done, when in fact, she sat on her bed and read books for 5 hours straight.
I also took this opportunity to organize and clean the basement. Taylor was evicted from her room for the month of May. That was a blog post in the making that never materialized. Credit for that creative parenting move goes to Jerry. Messy teenagers are not to be tolerated. Long story short, since she spent 30 days dwelling in the basement (it's fully finished, the only real punishment being the lack of privacy and stuff she had to leave in her room for the month) there was a good chance that the missing retainers ended up with Mr. Potato Head's facial accessories.
We cleaned and straightened and organized. Alas, no retainers to be found.
At this point, I was beginning to think that I was actually going to have to shell out $330 for new retainers. Consequence for Taylor - no new school clothes for freshman year! Gasp! Oh the horror! UMC meet our newest member, the girl with too small clothes from last season.
Could I really pull that off? Idk.
Lucky for Tay-May-May the former braceface, I found her retainers. In her purse. Where I told her to look a least a thousand times.
5 comments:
Fanfreakintastick picture of the kids!!!!!!
Sorry, I had to post about how much I loved the picture before I even read the rest of the post. About that...
... soooo you found the retainers. But the question is, "Do they still fit?" I seem to remember teeth shifting pretty darn quickly without retainers. But I guess a few days of massive headaches and sore wobbly teeth are better than wearing middle school clothes to your first day of high school. Hmmm... I think I could have supported you in that endeavor.
Yeah, I'm thinking that if you had held out on new clothes Taylor would be living with me right now (which would be okay by me!), but like Deb, I would have supported you in that punishment. Sounds about right to me.
And may I say that you are in trouble, missy. Your kids are incredibly gorgeous. I actually have to avert my eyes from Taylor for fear of breaking that commandment about covetousness/envy, etc.
I have to agree that is an awesome photo of the kids. I can't believe how big. I hardly recognize my lydi love bug...where have the days gone.
I'm so not looking forward to orthodontia. I'm thinking I'll let them pay when they get old...I'll get lasic instead! Would that be fair?
The kids look fab, and all oh-so-big! I'm not surprised that Taylor's retainers wound up in her purse. You should make her start a savings account for the next time she loses them!
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