my favorite gift as a child was an opal ring. my birthday is in october.....my mother had the most gorgeous opal ring and i wanted one too. for several years i asked for one but never got it. i got several pairs of opal earrings though. i have lost all of them. finally one year, my senior year, i got my opal ring. i got to open a picture of it, and then, on the drive to my grandparents house we stopped at service merchandise (remember that store??!! we loved it) and i got to pick out my opal ring. i loved it. it was so beautiful and full of fire.
the next year i went to college at azusa pacific--a christian college. my ring was stolen. i was BUMMED!!! i had always wanted another one, and for my 50th birthday, my husband bought me a new opal ring.
it is BEAUTIFUL. i have a difficult time wearing it now though, as i have a hard time using anything that was a gift from him since he decided that another love was more important than all of us and has moved on.....it sits in my jewelry box. i hope i will want to wear it again one day.....i hear opals are unlucky. i believe it....
so, now my favorite adult gift.....i just received 3 years ago. when my husband and i were first married i saw a set of baby dolls that my mother in law had when she was a girl. they were the dionne quintuplets from canada. she used to get them all cleaned up every year and wash their dresses and set them under her christmas tree. she knew i loved them and gifted them to me the christmas before she died, the next year in june. i miss her terribly. i know that my life would have been so different had she not been in it, and that also, since her passing, that my husband made choices that he never would have had she still been alive......but, i am thankful for her, and thankful for her babies and i miss her terribly much but don't live in the memory of the loss and the "if only she were heres".....she is not, life has changed and i change with it. she was a very strong christian and she also gave me the gift of her example of faith in
action, of carrying on when life was difficult with a smile on your face and a song in your heart......so, THAT really is the best gift i have received.......
i think i will go get those babies out and take and put them under my tree......
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I would wear the ring, when it was gifted to you it had good memories, don't lose those. I remember reading the story of the quads, they didn't have that great of a childhood, it is sad that people don't always do what is right towards others.
change of subject- did you see that Debra's pattern is getting published? I got to do the pattern testing and it is fast and easy to follow. Start to Finish less then a week of evening sewing.
cheryl,
published where/how? and cool that you got to do the testing ;o) that is great for her! it is a GREAT pattern and design. glad it got streamlined.....did you see she had a fire in her house? SCARY!!!
still thinking about the ring....time heals all wounds as they say. i know i will wear it again someday, but it will always be bittersweet. i am just hoping that it becomes more sweet. right now i am just not into jewelry anyway, only my trinity knot cross that i ALWAYS wear....God is good....all the time.
If the ring bites perhaps you could get the pretty stone reset into something you like. take the love and leave the rest.
The Dionne Quints were born in (born May 28, 1934) in Ontario
Those babies are beautiful.
I had a beautiful Fire opal ring My GM passed along to me that was stolen when I was at college. I have another now but it isn't the same.
If you have a daughter perhaps you can pass the opal ring along to her.
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