The Snowglobe Incident

Last night I was going through some of our boxes of Christmas stuff and I took out this enormous snow globe that we had gotten as a gift a few years back from some friends. It was actually really cute, the kids loved it...it had a Santa's workshop theme to it, and you could spin the base to wind it up and it played some Christmas song. Okay, so it was cute for like the first 2 seconds...

Anyway, I took it out and put it on one of the end tables in my living room as I went through the rest of the stuff. About 5 minutes later, I hear a huge CRASH. I jumped up with reflexes belonging only to a mother and, lo and behold, Ashlyn had dropped the darn thing on the wood floor in the dining room..and there she stood, in the middle of it all, surrounded by shards of glass and who knows what kind of poisonous liquid that was in that thing.

She was screaming bloody murder, so my first reaction was to check her for any blood.. Luckily, there was none (lucky for her because she was not hurt and lucky for me because I freeze at the sight of blood) and she escaped the entire experience unscathed. I quickly whisked her away from the scene and proceeded to survey the damage. The floor was covered in the aforementioned unidentified liquid laden with glitter and the glass had shattered into 34097332975 pieces; I think I found at least 4 shards even today. The floor now has an extra gash in it and the glitter is literally adhered to the wood. It's going to be a fun time trying to restore it back to its normal state!

Of course, I am so thankful that Ashes wasn't hurt. The floor (though costly) is replaceable. Ashlyn is not, and God forbid anything ever happened to her, or the other two, for that matter. I mean, if she would have tried to walk or run away out of fear when she dropped it, she could have stepped or fell on the sharp glass and really hurt herself.

It's just another reminder of how valuable they are, no matter how frustrated we as parents can get sometimes with them, and that we instinctually would do anything at any time to ensure that they are safe and protected. And, sadly, sooner rather than later, I dare say that I may really miss all the innocent mischievousness of the terrible twos.

Hehehe...or not. :D