soop I have often found in the recent past that sometimes disappointments turn out to be blessings in disguise. I have seen photos of your cottage and you are in a beautiful spot in the world.
It's a beautiful Saturday morning here and I was in a dead sleep, D2 was knocking on my door to see if I wanted to go to town with her this morning. GD 21 months had lost her dolly, it went missing on Thursday night and now she was crying for her baybee. Yesterday while babysitting I thoroughly searched the house pulling furniture around. D1 said they had also searched thoroughly the night before. Five minutes later she was back, baybee had been found, under the shelf in a toy kitchen, where I had looked the day before. 
We will still go to town and try and try to buy another and put it away, just in case. We get nervous that she will lose it, because she insists on taking it everywhere with her, tucked under her arm.