Binkie Fairy Visits Van Alstyne!

Megan was a cute baby but a loud one who was all over the place and wanted to eat every hour. God bless the day when we slipped a sweet little pink binkie in her little pink mouth and she was quiet! But that was 3 years ago and it's not so cute for a three year old to whine for the dang thing when she grows stressful or tired. I, like I do everything, have put off the whole withdrawl thing because I've been scared of the consequences. But she's the only one in her preschool class that uses one and I'm tired of pulling it out of her mouth. I'm tired of the muffled words and automatic search for it when things aren't going well. So it was time and the time was Friday night.
I figured we had all weekend to suffer through the agonizing over it before school on Tuesday. We talked it up all week, alerted all the family and asked for prayers (more for us). Friday afternoon we decorated a gift bag with glitter and stickers. We had to be sure that the Binkie Fairy could see the bag in the night. With some chants of "You Can Do It" by the three of us, she reluctantly put her last binkie in the bag for the "Fairy". We put it on the chair on the front porch and was sure to leave the light on for her/him.
She went to bed with great pride in her accomplishment. She was even encouraged by Reilly who gave her one of his cars (Tony Stewart, Yuk)because he was "proud of her". Sweetie. She slept with it instead of the cute pink binkie. She was surprised in the morning with a new tea set and stuffed monkey in the bag where her binkie once was. And that was it.
No more diapers, binkies, cribs and highchairs for us. Am I sad? Maybe a little but I have so much more to look forward to with our two cuties. Hopefully I won't be pulling out tongue piercings someday!!