My broken heart & Hector's broken head

 3.5.14- 

  For those of you who know me well or who read my blog you know how heart sick I am by this picture.  {Poor Hector!}  This happened on Sunday afternoon & I was heart broken!  I was reaching in the jar for a sugar cookie 

{darn that sugar & these cookies they are the BeST- recipe HERE} & his head slipped out of my hand & broke into  7 pieces.

{Could have been worse it could have been 100 pieces}   

I posted it on Instagram & one of my sweet friends posted - "Owl, pray for Hector"  So sweet.  I got so many kind, nice & funny comments from caring friends.  I even tried to joke that Hector had a splitting headache but I felt bad even saying that.  Really, so grateful for lovely friends who knew I was sick over this little guy.  

Once the shock of what just happened was over I called my neighbor & ran over to her house to grab some e6000 & got to work repairing Hector.  

{Thanks for having that on hand, Nicole} 

With the help of Miss Mace we were able to take care of Hector right away. I'm happy to say that the operation went well, Hector rested comfortably & has been recovering nicely.  

He has been put back under glass where it all began. 

{For safe keeping for the time being.}

 Read more of how Hector came into our home, HERE. 

 Don't know if he'll permanently stay on display & live a life of a "fancy" cookie jar or not but I think his days of being used as an everyday cookie jar are over. I just can't bear the thought of something else worse happening to him. 

Here's a closer pic of this cute little guy.  You can see the crack in his head 

{the chip was there when I bought him so I don't feel bad about that} 

This is now his good side, the back doesn't look as good.  But he is still a happy face to look at. 

It really is the simple things in life isn't it.  Who knew that a cookie jar could bring so much joy into our kitchen.  I know I shouldn't love "a thing" as much as I do but if loving Hector is wrong I don't want to be right.  

-From a photo shoot I did last year with my friend.  Hector got into the action- 
Thanks for reading & humoring me for a bit.  I know there are much more worse things going on in the world today but on Sunday afternoon this was a little tragedy in our house.

Hope you have something in your home that fills you with joy & brightens your day.

{M}