Today my son threw a ball in the house. It was a small rubber ball, no bigger than a golf ball. Apparently my son has good aim and a strong arm, or extremely bad aim, and terrible luck. Because this little ball hit smack in the middle of my husband's pride and joy, 47" flat screen, LCD television....
and shattered it.
Have you ever in your life felt so incredibly terrible that your stomach hurts? Literally just aches with terribleness? I feel like throwing up. (and no, faithful followers, I am not pregnant. Thanks for the assumptions though.) I've just spent the last 30 minutes bawling my eyes out, and now I am doing the next logical thing... blogging about it.Holy crap I feel awful.
It was a complete accident and Cooper has no idea what all the fuss is about. He breaks things all the time, 3 other things today in fact. But he's never broken anything this expensive. This "little" TV happens to be the most expensive thing we own. It cost more than our new fridge, more than our couch, more than our bed, more than all the furniture in my house COMBINED! (It's not that it was uber expensive, we just don't own anything that cost more than $200...)
The money is a hard thing because I know we can't replace it. But the hardest thing is knowing how much my husband loved it... and I can't fix it, and I can't make it better... it's the worst.
I know it's just a tv, but I feel so awful.
(I should be happy. I didn't like the tv, it threw off my design plan for the family room...)
I'm sorry if this is rambling, I'm bawling so hard I can't think straight.
I'm sorry hunny.
so. sorry.
here is a picture of the carnage:
so. sorry.
here is a picture of the carnage:
That's bad!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking you may need to send cooper (at least I'm assuming Cooper was the culpret) to my house before Brandon comes home and then maybe for a few days after until he can deal with his loss....just let me do some bubblewrapping around my house first...and maybe hide the balls ;)
I know how you feel. I hate that my husband has so little that makes him happy (its why I pay for cable that I think is useless) and when things can't be replaced, it just makes you feel like crap. Money sucks (when you don't have any) and being a parent sometimes makes you cry over things that don't really matter in the long run.
ReplyDeleteoh I'm so sad about your loss. or at least Brandon's loss. I hate money.
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