My mother felt that since we are living in a house with a fireplace, we needed STOCKINGHOLDERS to hang our stockings on. As in, "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care...". So, my well-meaning mother sent two fleur-de-lis metal stocking holders. I promptly put them up and attached Thing1 and Thing2's stockings.
NOTE: Back in my childhood days we must have really been poor white trash, 'cuz I remember our stockings being held up by nails. We also used old socks of my dad's--the kind people used to make monkey puppets out of, remember those? Ah well, I digress...back to the story.
The stockings had been up a grand total of oh, I'd say, 4 minutes when I heard a gawdalmighty shriek from the living room. Yes, Thing2 had reached up, yanked on her stocking (curious about it), and pulled the stupid stockingholder off the mantle and got smacked in the face with 1.5 lbs of brass fleur-de-lis!
AAAUGH!
After wiping off the blood, wrapping her in a blanket (ever try to give a pill to a cat?), and keeping a frozen bag of yam pieces on her face for 20 minutes, I was finally able to calm my howling toddler down. What a nightmare! Luckily, the thing missed her eye(s) and seemed to mostly hit her forehead. She looks like she's been in a baby barroom brawl. People will probably think that CPS needs to be contacted. ("It was the fleur-de-lis, officer, HONEST!")
I went to Lowe's and for $5 bought 4 plastic s-curve hangers. They're plastic, and green, and have no rounded edges. *sigh* Now I know better. Other stockingholder users take note: avoid the metal ones if you have or might have little kids in your house. Save yourself the trauma.
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Ouch! Tell Thing 2 I hope she feels better.
I know the feeling. D-M was running around this summer and crashed into a chair. Gave herself a black eye. Then a kid at the sitters bit her and gave her a big bruise. The looks I got for a week or two.
We used my dad's old army socks, which stretched and stretched. Yea!!!
Ohhhh, poor Thing2!!!
I can tell you though that this type of unfortunate event is not limited to toddlers. When I decorated for Halloween, I had a heavy resin gargoyle atop a cabinet in my living room. I also had a really cool, large banner I wanted to hang, so I put the cord for the banner under the gargoyle. Awesome--the banner hung over the front of the cabinet very nicely.
Later, I wanted to retrieve a DVD out of the cabinet. Instead of taking the banner OFF, I just tried to lift it, open the door and get a DVD out all at the same time.
I succeeded in pulling that damn gargoyle off the top of the cabinet and getting whacked in the face with it.
Somehow I got socked in the jaw with it--not in the eye--that would have been nice. It hurt like hell, but didn't bruise my jaw.
But poor Thing2, she doesn't know what hit her! I hope she's not afraid of Christmas stockings now!
Thank goodness Thing 2 wasn't permanently damaged, traumatized maybe, but not damaged.
I hope she is just as beautiful as her mother again soon.
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