Finally

A little drum roll please... I give you the before and the just taken after pictures of the kitchen!!!

Still have a few more little details to complete... a new rug for the kitchen, some new dishtowels and a little curtain over the sink window. Need to make a new drawer front on the missing area as well... we took out the old cutting board... which had a shallow drawer front. Other than that its done!!

So every Christmas there's some story... remember when Ainsley was 2ish and put ornaments under her rocking chair legs to break them up? When Walker took a few bites of Ainsley's chocolate dipped candy canes? Or last year when Walker had pink eye and Ainsley was throwing up?

Well this year also has a story... despite our numerous talks about touching ornaments on the tree... Walker decided to play with Ainsley's special series snowglobe collection. I caught him and put it away higher out of reach... or so I thought. Couple days later he was playing again and this time he dropped it and it broke!! Ainsley starts screaming hysterical, "MOMMMEEEEE... Walker just broke my Ornament!!!" Sure enough we find this...

So the ornament is small the globe part maybe has 1/2 c water in it... but it seemed like a gallon was dripping off the tree... the tree skirt was soaked... wrapped presents underneath were dissolving... oh not to mention the glass! It wasn't one of our finer parenting moments... we yelled and sent both to their rooms sobbing. The most comic thing out of the whole thing... there was a strand of lights on the bottom that has been out... we've tried fuses and different bulbs and it still stayed unlit. Well thanks to this little episode it now works!!!

Thank goodness for eBay and the fact that it was just last years ornament not one from 5 years ago. I got one ordered that night... which allowed a very tear stained eyed girl to finally drift off to sleep. As for the little stinker... I think (hope) he learned his lesson.