Replacement Wedding Ring

You know what’s awesome?  When someone gives you jewelry on THEIR birthday!  Can you think of anything more wonderful?

Did you know I lost the diamond out of my wedding ring a couple years ago?  I did.  And we never replaced it.  Initially it was due to the cost and we had to budget it in.  Then I saw the movie BLOOD DIAMOND and found myself in a predicament of not wanting to replace it at all.  So for the last year or so I have been sporting a gorgeous $5 hunk of faux diamond from Target.  I get compliments on it all the time, it is so big and beautiful, and I can’t help from giggling and saying, “It’s fake!”  Still, it doesn’t feel “special.”

We were up north at the cabin, as usual, for Memorial Weekend which also happens to be Mama Mar’s birthday.  SHE surprised ME with something wonderful… a ring my Dad had given to her, to replace my lost circle of love.  It has a blue sapphire instead of a diamond at the center.  It does have small diamonds around it, so it would not meet Leo diCaprio standards BUT it has lots of love built in it from Dad to Mama Mar to me, and that trumped my anti-diamond crusade.

Mama Mar’s ring is definitely the best gift I’ve ever gotten for someone else’s birthday.  What’s yours?