sometimes waiting

is worth it when all is said and done.
I ordered these dresses almost a year ago.
At the same time I ordered a birthday dress. It had an adorable cupcake with the age appliqued on the front.
These I purchased after receiving the adorable snowman dress. I had asked if we could get the birthday and mermaid dress closer to May, which would be in time with Yahaira's birthday. So in march I sent updated measurements and waited, and waited. We did get the birthday dress in time for Yahaira's birthday, except I requested a 3 rather than a 4 so needless to say she didn't wear that adorable creation. Rosie did a few months later. sigh. Due to one thing or another, weather, illnesses and a whole host of other reasons the mermaid dress and another dress I had ordered never arrived. Each time I emailed her there seemed to be one more delay and by August I had resigned myself that i simply wouldn't be receiving the remaining two dresses. I sent one more email inquiring on the dresses and received a response with the offer to make a more winter dress, and what style would I like. We agreed on a Peanuts theme and the original Mermaid dress. and then nothing. not a word. Two weeks ago I emailed one last time, once again I was give a rather long explanation as to the delays, and a promise they would go in the mail that weekend. As one week passed and we started a new week I just simply wrote it up as lesson learned. I did try to reason how she could have had such excellent service at the beginning only to have it unravel for later orders. Today a package arrived and inside were these simply beautiful dresses. I guess it was worth the wait, not so sure I would want to wait that long again...but all in all they arrived, and the girls were thrilled with them. Not thrilled enough to want to try them on.. :)