Sometimes the Rockiest of Roads Lead to the Most Beautiful Places

January 30, 2017, Was Our 47th Wedding Anniversary.

As you know we have been blessed with four children, Windy, Stacy, Jessica and Matt.  Each of these incredible people have enriched our lives.

Twenty seven years ago when these people were still just children, Gary surprised me with an anniversary gift that I treasure...a diamond ring...placed on our dinner table in a brown paper lunch sack. My equally romantic response was, "Is this real?" 
Sometime after my mother died in 2004, my sisters and I got to choose from her jewelry what we would like to have.  I chose another diamond ring that had belonged to Mom's mother, Ann Eileen McGinnis Prendergast, a lady I never had the opportunity to know. 

So, now I had two diamond rings and three daughters.  I told Gary that for our 50th wedding anniversary, I would like to have another diamond, perhaps a necklace so that each of our daughters would get to have a diamond from us when I no longer needed them. 
That diamond necklace was sitting upon our dinner table on this forty seventh wedding anniversary,  wrapped in beautiful silver paper and ribbons.  I did not ask if it was real...I knew.  This man's love for me is the "realest".   He is caring for this bald headed old lady who does nothing for her keep, in the most gracious way and making her feel special and wanted to boot!