Easter Piggy Instead of the Easter Bunny

I had what we like to call a "Cindy" moment in my family  today.  If you have worked with me, you will know that I love festive headbands.  I have a headband for many holidays -- St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Years.  I even have a tiara that I wear on my birthday.

Last year, I didn't wear any of my headbands to the office.   After losing Jessica,  I just couldn't get into the spirit of being festive, especially Easter which is the first holiday that Jessica wasn't here for.  This year, I decided to wear my Easter headband to work.  I consider this a significant event in my grief journey especially since Easter is so close to the date of the accident (the accident was on the 29th and Easter falls on the 1st this year).  Our department staff meeting is today and I decided that today was the day to wear my Easter headband.  I grabbed the headband out of my closet and placed it in my bag and headed off to work.  When I got to work, I pulled out the headband to put it in on, I discovered that I had grabbed the pig ears headband instead of the bunny ears headband.  At first, I was disappointed and very upset.   This represented so much more than just wearing a silly headband and I had messed it up.  I decided to wear the headband anyway.  From a distance it's really hard to tell they are pig ears -- they just look like a baby bunny.  So, I put on my pig ears headband and, as soon as I put them on my head, I immediately started laughing. 

Everyone can be the Easter Bunny, but not everyone can be the Easter Piggy.  If Jessica is looking down on me from Heaven right now, I am confident she is rolling her eyes, laughing and saying "Mom, you're such a dork!"

(I got my piggy ears headband at the Virginia State Fair while we watched the pig races.  The headband also came with a piggy tail which I am not wearing for Easter)