I wish I could get a do-over...

Okay so here goes, I'm not trying to avoid writing about it but it was a TRAUMATIC event for me... but in needs to go on record so that some day when Grace looks back she will know how very much her original snowman ornament meant to me. Yes, I did say "meant" as in past tense.

I had been so worried about the ornament making it from Nanni's house to our new house w/out getting broken - and I cleared that hurdle w/ flying colors. The ornament did not have a hook to place it on the tree so I was working to tie a ribbon on it when it slipped off the ribbon and onto the T I L E floor.... SCATTERING into millions of pieces. After everything that had been going on, Nanni's surgeries, moving, just the exhaustion of everything I burst into tears, sadly w/ Grace watching. She saw the whole tragic event - the breaking of the ornament and the devastation that occurred afterwards. I was truly heartbroken. Matt was yelling at me to pull it together and stop crying, saying I was going to upset Grace (which he was right) but for me was only making it worse. Grace is trying to pat me on the back saying, "It's okay Mommy, I'll tell Miss Rhonda you broke it and we need to make another one" between sobs. Oh it was just awful!
So I went out to get Christmas ornaments and paint, and paint pens, and anything else I could think of... both girls and I tried to make new snowman ornaments. The single snowmen are courtesy of Grace and the smaller grouping of three snowmen are Eva's:-)

Clearly not as good as the original, but you've gotta make lemonade out of lemons, right;-)