Monday, December 17, 2007

Caitlin, Caroline, and....Christina????

I am an Ebay fanatic; there is no hiding that. I buy EVERYTHING there, including ornaments. I recently ordered 3 different ones. The first was a beautiful Snow Baby that has Baby's First Christmas 2006 written on the front. As you can tell, I am a year late getting Caroline's 1st Christmas ornament--embarrassing as that is. The second one I purchased was a cool firefighter sign-type ornament that has little danglies on it--way cuter than it sounds. I have to buy a firefighter one every year, because it's tradition around our house. Ok, so the third one I ordered was a very special one. It was supposed to be hand-painted with 5 snowmen/women. It had a Daddy, Mommy, and 3 babies, and it was to be personalized with our names and then "The Haskells 2007" at the bottom. I was so excited to get this, because ornaments with 5 family members are hard to find. Anyway, the lady said it would take a while to make and ship, and she wasn't kidding. I ordered it on November 30th and it finally came TODAY. I quickly tore open the package, pulled it out, and my smile turned to a frown. Here is how the names read: Caitlin, Caroline, John, Melissa, and....Christina. What?!?!? Last time I looked, I had 2 girls and a boy. I checked on my receipt, and I am 100% positive I gave her the right names. Argggggg!!! All of this suspense built up and I was horribly disappointed. Oh well, maybe we'll get it right next year. It's too late to have it re-made. I guess it will be one of those ornaments that's saved for the back of the tree. Bummer!
If you look closely, you can see the mistake. It's very noticeable in person. :-(

2 comments:

Keri said...

We got a snowman ornament personalized this year as well and when I was giving her the names I was very adament on the spellings and she kept looking at me like I was annoying her. When I came back to pick it up she asked if we get Graceland alot for Gracelyn and I told her yes as a matter of fact we do... She had to redo the original ornament because she wrote Graceland on it. See~that is why I am so conscience of saying it slowly and spelling it because of people like her who do it wrong anyways. Glad she caught it though.

Maybe you'll have luck next year!

Amy Renay said...

Poor Christian. That is a cute ornament though.