It's that time of year when the Christmas decorations come out. Meg was excited as she opened the box of decorations and pulled out the first few. No tree yet, the ornaments will have to wait. The nativities, those can come out now. Hmm... where would the stockings go this year? Oh, there is the beautiful snow globe, that can definitely come out now. This would only be the second year the snow globe was part of the decorations, it was a gift from her sister just last year. One or two more things would do it for now. Meg being the practical person she is, wanted to take the fewest number of trips possible from the storage room to the living room. So, she carefully held the snow globe while balancing other items around it. Crunch. What was that? It couldn't be the snow globe, she was being so careful. Alas, as she looked down into her hand she realized water was flowing from a large crack in the globe. Luckily, knowing her own propensity to break things, she had stored it in a large zip-type freezer bag. The bag was holding the gushing water quite well. The only bright point in an otherwise forlorn situation.
Meg was very distraught. Angry with herself for not carrying the snow globe by itself. Very upset because she really liked the snow globe and was excited to decorate with it. After a therapeutic cry, she decided to see if it was in any way salvageable. It was quite easy to break out the rest of the glass. Only one small piece of anything else was broken. Superglue fixed that. She was able to save everything except the snow and the globe. So now it is a snowless globeless:
It's just not the same.
8 comments:
That is SO sad! I do love it's new name, however. :)
that is a bummer.. This year one of my snow globes,for no apparent reason was leaking. I played with it and tried to fix it to no avail. So it is a snowless globe. No water or snow, but still has the globe!
I am soooo sorry! I would have cried too. Not that it makes it any better, but to one who never saw it in all its glory, I think it still looks like a beautiful Christmas decoration.
I am soooo sorry! I would have cried too. Not that it makes it any better, but to one who never saw it in all its glory, I think it still looks like a beautiful Christmas decoration.
I'm sorry about the tragedy. I must say, I've learned my lesson a time or two doing the same thing...trying to make it so I had less trips. Luckily my beautiful Christmas Snow Globe was not one of the many things I've broken.
I too think it still looks pretty.
Oh, I'm so sorry! You are so funny though, and made me laugh right out loud at the way you told the story. Especially the name "snowless globeless" and the last line. It is still pretty though, and actually, it really still does have a globe, doesn't it?
Oh dreadful dear! I'm ever so sorry! See Amanda's recent post for all of my ornament casualties this year alone. However, all of my casualties were, thankfully, on pieces that weren't nearly so cool as your snowless globe. I'm very sorry.
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