I have always loved to smile and I have dimples which, especially as a child, draws a lot of attention. I have always had lovely compliments about my smiles and my blue eyes, yet even as a child, I can remember drawing self-portraits of myself, ever so carefully using my yellow crayola to color in my smile.  I believe that there are specific colors of the stuff inside our teeth that we inherit genetically, which may explain why I have never loved my teeth...to me they were always yellow...then, as I got older, they got dull and stained and kind of brownish grey...I have always taken good care of my teeth...my teeth are straight and pretty in regard to alignment, anyway...but I never had that sparkling, ultra-brite smile...that is, until today!!!! 

Last fall, we had our annual "fund raiser" for United Way at work...I bid on and won a "ZOOM" session...one of my co worker's wife is a dentist!  Today, as a reward for becoming a non-smoker, I was able to have the procedure and OMG!  My teeth are as white and beautiful as I could ever wish them to be!!!!  I smiled all the way to April's house! 

I walked in, pouting, and told April, come here!  look what the dentist did to me...come here in the light where you can really see...of course, it took all I had not to laugh!  She was exstatic and elated and told me I was so pretty!  That is high praise from my girl, the one who tells it like it is! 

I am so happy I got to do this...If I die today, I will die loving my own smile for the first time in my entire life!  Otherwise, you better get out your shades and start wearing them, because I am headed your way with a bright, beautiful smile and I might just blind you! LOLOLOL!!!!