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My Sidekick: Guilt - Amanda Magee
We were on our way back from a wildly successful 3-day business trip when I called my mother-in-law to tell her we’d be by to get the girls in about five minutes. Finley answered the phone. “Hello, this is Finley speaking.” “Hey Fin, it’s mama,” I said with the side of my smile pressing into the phone. The familiar electricity of hearing her voice filling me with butterflies not unlike a first crush. “Mom, mom! Guess what?” she blurted. “What?” I asked giggling. “I lost my tooth.” My heart sank and my cheeks hollowed. “Not the one you worried I might lose, but a different one. It’s so weird, it just happened like a few minutes ago.” She was proud and exuberant, not at all…
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