Rings....

Sometime between May of 1997 and December of 1997 Phil decided that I was the girl for him and picked out an engagement ring all by himself and put it on layaway. He wanted to have it for Valentine's Day 1998.

When he went to pick it up that faithful day in February the jewelry store had LOST it. As hard as they looked, it could not be found. In great frustration Phil looked at the jewelry store associate and asked what rings did he have for a similar price took that ring unsized and left the store.

After he proposed he apologized in case it didn't fit and told me the story. It fit PERFECTLY!!!

When we were shopping for wedding bands I was very adamant about what I wanted. My band had to match his. No diamonds or fancy art work just a simple matching band so that when I looked down at mine I knew exactly what his looked like. We shopped the city over. Most jewelry stores we went into had there own ideas of what my wedding band should look like. We walked out of those stores faster than we walked in.

The stores that did have what I wanted the selection was terrible. I didn't think I would ever find what I had envisioned. Until we walked into the jewelry store that lost my engagement ring. There it was in the case EXACTLY what I wanted. The rings are simple gold bands with diamond cuts in the gold. Well because of the diamond cuts the rings had to be ordered special they do not size this style.

Two weeks before the wedding we went in and paid off the rings. I asked if I could see them and try it on just to make sure it fit. READY FOR THIS......they could not find the rings. I wish I were kidding about that. They shut the store down for about two hours turning it upside down trying to find them. We finally left the store totally distraught. They promised they would find them and have them ready for us before we left town to get married. A few hours later I received a message the rings were found.

Fast forward about 10 years later I was giving Katie, Jack and Maddie their baths before bed. I used to have this nervous habit of spinning my diamond from my engagement ring around my finger. Not realizing I was doing it I felt pain and my finger was bleeding. My diamond had fallen out of my ring and I cut my finger on the broken prong. Read here for the story.

I have been carrying the ring with the broken prong and the loose diamond around in my purse for 3 and 1/2 years. Finally Friday I walked into the SAME jewelry store Phil bought it from and asked them to confirm it was in fact my diamond, could they reset and repair my ring. It will take about two weeks and $100.00 but it will be repaired. I am very excited to get it back.

I was telling my neighbor this story and about getting it repaired. She jokingly asked me didn't you take the hint maybe those were signs. I told her I didn't believe we weren't supposed to be together. She says why not. I told her because to this day my matching wedding band fits exactly inside Phil's wedding band like it belongs there. I saw Phil smile.

As long as they do not lose my original ring they are repairing I will be one happy wife. LOL!!

TTFN~