so i was at a friends house and our kids were running around playing games. while chasing eachother my small child bumped into a vase that fell over and broke! my friend was so understanding but i still felt really bad! i helped clean it up with her.
it was not even that it was nice or expensive, it was just a gift from someone and meant alot to her sentimentally, and its like, what do you do? replacing it wont make it better
if they have kids i am sure they understand. sometimes you just cannot have nice things.