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Welcome to Joy Moments where we take moments of joy and spread

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them and ripples across the world.

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I am Lacey here with my co-host Sarah.

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Hi Sarah.

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Sara: Hello, Lacey.

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It's so good to see you.

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Lacey: It's so good to see you two.

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I am so excited to share

my joy moment today,

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Sara: Go for it.

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Lacey: We had a big, big moment

in the Tomlinson household.

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We had our first tooth lost.

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Isaac lost his first tooth, and it's just,

I, I didn't think I would care about this.

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there just was this moment of like, oh

my gosh, he's getting so much bigger and.

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It's also very funny and very US that,

he wanted it to happen at school.

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Like he has told me this multiple times.

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It was his front tooth on the top.

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He's like, I wanted to happen at school.

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'cause apparently they get a treasure

te chest if it happens at school

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that they put the the tooth in.

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And so I have very purposefully not

been ' cause I'm one of those people.

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Like if someone's from a

sunburn, like I wanna peel it.

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Like I just, I have those, I have

those, , compulsions we'll say.

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And so I keep seeing his tooth

'cause it's his front one.

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Like you can tell it's getting looser and

looser by how wonky it, it gets, you know?

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Yesterday he came home from

school and he showed me, he's

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like, look how loose it is mom.

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And I'm like, oh my gosh.

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Yes.

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It is very loose.

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I'm trying to play it cool.

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I've been doing so good about playing it.

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Cool.

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Okay.

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I.

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I have never played

anything cool in my life.

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And this is the first time

it's happening, right?

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So he's unloading the dishwasher, he

is doing his tour after school, his

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friend's over and he comes rushing

and he is like, mom, my tooth is

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bleeding but it's not coming out.

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And I was like, do you want me to pull it?

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And He was like, well, let me try.

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So we went and we got a paper towel and

he tried a couple times and there's blood.

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So I'm like, it's coming out bud,

whether you do it or not, And he

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was like, you go ahead and do it.

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And on my second try I pulled

it and everyone's excited.

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Right?

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His friend's there.

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he's like so excited about it.

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He is like, the tooth fairy is coming.

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All this stuff.

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And I'm like, yes.

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I get the, I get the joy of knowing

that my compulsion is now taken and

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I didn't have to do anything weird.

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Okay, so then the evening continues

on, and to no one's surprise in my

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household, Isaac loses the tooth.

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Like yes, he lost the tooth

of his mouth, but then he lost

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it in our house somewhere.

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And if you want to have a child.

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Melts down it is like, what am I gonna do?

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I, I have tooth fairy's coming.

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What are we gonna do?

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So much, so much stuff.

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Spoiler alert for anyone listening.

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I don't, if you don't wanna know

what the tooth fairy did, stop

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listening now Or skip ahead, I dunno.

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So we came up with the idea.

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of all, we looked everywhere and

so now I just have to live with

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the, the thought that there is

just a tooth somewhere in my house.

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Who knows where it'll show up in.

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Like if I had to guess, it's gonna

show up in like a week and a half.

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' cause who knows what he did with it.

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My, that's the A DHD.

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It's finest of moving it and then

blaming it on me for him moving it

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and being like, you moved in, bro.

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I have not touched it.

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Anyway, so.

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decided that the tooth fairy, would leave

the tooth berry a note underneath his bed.

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We would draw a picture

of a tooth on there.

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We would leave a very nice note about

we lost the tooth, but we owe, like

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if we find it, we'll give it to you.

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please don't punish this stuff.

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And the tooth Fair did come and

gave Isaac $5 for his first tooth.

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Sara: You think the tooth fairy

is gonna do $5 for every tooth?

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Lacey: I don't, he and I

had this talk this morning.

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He was like, yeah, it'll probably be four.

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And I'm like, I dunno.

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I feel like the first

tooth gets to be special.

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And after that they're

like a dollar or two.

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And he was like, I don't know.

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And I was like, if I was a guessing lady,

if I was betting, that's what I would bet.

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Sara: First, did you get when you were,

'cause you had five siblings, right?

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Lacey: Yeah, but I was the youngest.

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See, I, it's so hard for me to

like really contextualize up

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with like, being the youngest.

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'cause I really feel like I grew

up more like an only child who just

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had older siblings around sometimes.

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Like, I didn't go through

anything with anybody else.

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So, I think I got a dollar.

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I don't really remember.

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Sara: Again, anyone listening who

maybe wants to skip ahead or pause,

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we're gonna discuss the tooth fairy

a little bit more in depth here.

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there's definitely market variation of how

much the tooth fairy brings and I like,

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I kind of had a pact with my neighbor

like, can you make sure your tooth

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fairy is bringing between this range?

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Because like the kids talk all the time,

I'm like, I need to have a comp on this.

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Lacey: Which is why we went $5.

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'cause we were asking when other kids

were around, like how much did the

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tooth, and so $5 for the first one

seems to be a going rate around here.

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Sara: I have a really funny story

about finding teeth My parents' house.

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So the house I grew up in

but was no longer living in.

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I would go back and visit and I would

stay, it wasn't the bedroom I grew up in.

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It kind of became the guest bedroom.

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there was this night stand with this

little tiny top drawer, and one day I

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was staying there and I was visiting

and I pulled the droop and, and

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immediately heard this like rattle and

it was just a drawer full of teeth.

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And I kind of at first, like

my eyes bugged out and I'm

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like, it was a lot of teeth.

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And I was like, what is happening?

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I'm not talking about 50 teeth.

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I'm talking about like 10 or less.

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And,

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Lacey: Any, any teeth is

more teeth than you think.

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Any tooth.

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Sara: And my mom, my

mom loved to keep stuff.

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But I was like, even for my mom,

this is a bit odd because at this

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point I was in my thirties and

my siblings are older than me.

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So I was like, even for

my mom, that's unhinged.

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And then, , I talked to my sister,

she lived in my parents' house

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when they moved from outta state to

in-state and were looking for a house.

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And she had three kids and

they lived there for a while.

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And so the tooth that they,

all the teeth that they lost

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just ended up in that truck.

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It was so funny.

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Lacey: relate so hard to just,

let's just throw somewhere

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and then forget about them.

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Sara: Oh my gosh.

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I love that story.

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well, congrats to Isaac

on losing his first tooth.

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That is.

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Lacey: jazzed this morning.

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He came running in.

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Then this is my other favorite thing.

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He was like, do you think if we find

the tooth and then I put the tooth

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under my pillow, I'll get more money?

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And I was like, no.

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We literally said in the

note, we owe you a tooth.

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Like don't try to game the system.

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You turned.

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Sara: He was thinking forward though.

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Lacey: he is a very, money conscious kid.

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We'll just say that.

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he wants money.

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Sara: I don't blame them

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Lacey: I know.

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Hey.

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He's making deals.

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I will say the interesting, other

interesting thing that happened this

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morning is that Iris now is like,

well when I lose teeth, I don't want

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the tooth fairy to take the tooth.

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And I'm like, okay, we're

writing another note.

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See if we can strike up a

deal with the tooth fairy.

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' cause she's like, I gotta, I'm

gonna have to stay awake 'cause

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I wanna talk to the tooth Fairy.

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And I was like, I don't

think that's how it works.

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It's kind of a Santa situation.

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So I just.

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I did not realize how many

logistics I would have to be talking

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when it comes the tooth fairy.

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that is a new thing for me.

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Sara: Yes, yes.

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Yeah, there's absolutely no way to be

prepared for all parenthood throws at you.

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on the whole money conscious thing,

I do remember at one point my son

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asking, does the tooth under his pillow

have to be his tooth to get money?

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I was like, what is happening?

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Where are you getting teeth?

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Lacey: Market.

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Sara: from, apparently

from my parents' house.

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I don't, no, he meant like if you

found like if the dog lost a tooth,

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like yeah, I don't know where else

he was gonna get teeth, but anyways,

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Lacey: a money laundering

scheme with teeth,

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Sara: money launder scheme,

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that would be funny at school.

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Like I'll give you a

dollar for your tooth.

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'cause I know I'm gonna get

$5 from the tooth theory.

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Lacey: I'm not gonna knock it.

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Sara: By low sell high, the tooth market.

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All right, so my joy moment, what I

love about this joy moment is it's

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such a compounding joy moment, ripple.

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Anyone who listens to joyful

support knows about Theresa, a

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friend of mine, her daughter, and

Theresa for my son's birthday.

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They sent, I don't know actually

how they made it, but it's

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like a flip book of photos.

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So, and they used their body to spell

out all the letters in Happy Birthday.

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What was beautiful was in each photo they

were smiling, and then I was smiling,

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imagining them doing this, and then

my son was happy, They were at some

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kind of farmer's market doing this.

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So think of all the

letters and happy birthday.

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Lacey: That's a lot of letters.

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Sara: And they used their bodies like this

is not their fingers, not their hands.

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They fully used.

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So sometimes it was one person,

sometimes it was two people, and

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they spelled out happy birthday.

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And then like, yeah, and then

it flipped automatically.

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And then I think she even put a

song to it, which was really cool.

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So that made me happy on so many levels.

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I will never forget that.

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And.

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I just, it felt like a joy Ripple.

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Can you imagine walking through a

farmer's market and you look over?

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What are those people doing?

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They're smiling.

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They're bent over,

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so anyone.

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Lacey: another happy thing in our house

the past week is, Isaac's school was

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having a fundraiser and he, he's a very

money conscious kid as we've discussed,

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and so he really wanted to raise money.

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His first thing was like, can I give $10?

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And I was like, but calm down.

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so another, he's also declared that he

wants to be a YouTuber, which is just

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something I struggle with in general.

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, But I've told him, I was like, if

you, I, we can do stuff like that.

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If you wanna create, if you are creating,

I mean, we're not gonna post it.

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He's not gonna be, you know what I mean?

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But, I told him, I was like, come

up with ideas and we'll make YouTube

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video, YouTube type videos and you

can practice and that kind of stuff.

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And so I told him, I was

like, we should make you.

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videos to try to get people to, to donate.

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And so we made what I think is an epic

ask video, and then proceeded to make

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you videos for the people who donated

as a way to solicit more donations.

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Right.

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we raised some money, so that was good.

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did it usually just mean me sitting

there and making the videos?

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Yes.

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The act of creating it together

was so much fun and like a good

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little activity for our household.

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So I think that's something that I

don't always give enough credit to of

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like, yes, outcome type thing might seem

overwhelming, is a barrier, but using

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it as an opportunity to do an activity

together was really, really lovely.

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Sara: And I saw the video

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Lacey: I didn't even

send you the other ones.

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they were like themed, like cinema themed.

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So we had a horror one, that was, a

monster Violet called Attack of the Baby.

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there was another one

that was like a mystery.

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yeah.

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Sara: I love that.

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That's so beautiful.

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Oh, So much joy.

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Can I tell you another joy that

you're, that's gonna make you laugh?

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Lacey: yes, please,

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Sara: The other day we were doing joy

with the family, and I took a walk

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and within this one walk in this one

specific area, I saw four monarch

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butterflies, like newly hatched.

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I saw three snakes,

three snakes in one walk.

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I saw a praying mantis But three snakes

and a praying mantis and four monarchs.

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Lacey: Like they knew you're coming,

Sarah, and they're like, let's

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get out there and say hi to her.

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Sara: What was really cute was I was

trying to get one of the snakes off the

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road so it didn't get smooshed, and this

little tiny baby snake was all ferocious.

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And he was like, well, I'm gonna get you.

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And he kept kind of snap

at me and I kept going.

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You are so adorable.

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You are so cute.

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And he was like, I also helped

a snapping turtle move across

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the road on another day.

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y'all that word snap is like an

understatement if you've ever seen

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a snapping turtle snap, it is woo.

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I think I peed a little

when, tried to get me.

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Lacey: I am so glad there are people like

you in the world doing that work, Sarah.

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' cause it's never gonna be me, but

I'm glad that you exist to do it

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Sara: I am a bit of a nutter butter.

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well this was so fun

recounting our joy moments.

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I hope somebody out there, at least

one person just had a little moment

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of joy just hearing our joy moments

and laughing about the teeth market.

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as always, if you have joy moments that

you wanna share, we want to hear them.

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We want to amplify them.

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And remember if joy moments, you're

like, I don't have joy moments.

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it's anything that makes you happy,

anything that made you smile, anything

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that brightened your day, anything

that you enjoyed it, just anything that

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felt good, within the limits of pg.

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Lacey: We're glad that other

things make you feel good.

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We just don't need to be a part of it.

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Sara: Well, thank you Lacey.

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I had so much fun this morning.

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Lacey: Me too.