Yay, Jewellk....just saw that you bought the radiant!  It will be beautiful!  I don't know how you can wait until April...

Yes, I recall what I got as an "after birthin' baby gift". I got a dress, three weeks after the birth and only after I had a fit. When I opened the box it happened to be the exact same dress I was wearing and had, no less, worn it at least 3 times a week seeing as how little else fit.

It was BRIGHT turquoise and had pink flowers. So it was pretty distinctive. I opened the box, pulled it out and was so shocked and said gift was obviously right next the dress I was wearing. My husband said, "so do you like it?" He did not even notice that was what I was wearing!

The guys one year voted this the most egregious gift giving incident. He got the award for the clunkiest gift giver.

  I remember that story WM....that cracks me up.  I still can't believe he did that!   I have visions of that story in my head.   

~Ronda

My DH and I had a huge fight the night before my son was born.  I had a pregnancy brain, and it was especially bad because my son was not growing well and we knew he was going to be premature and very small, with a problematic kidney.   With everything going on, I had forgotten to pay the cable bill, so our cable went out the night before I was scheduled to go in 6 weeks early for c-section.  DH freaked out on me.  Absolutely crazy.  We were just under so much stress.  So when he gave me my baby gift that same night, he sort of tossed it at me.  A very plain white gold bangle he said was all he could afford (not quite).  Anyway, after the birth of our son he totally made up for it with 2 beautiful cards - one from him and one "from" our newborn son, along with a gigantic blue teddy for our son that he is still not as big as almost 4 years later.  I still cherish both more than any piece of jewelry I will ever own.

Congrats Jewellk!  This ring is going to be stunning, as will your little sweetheart!

Nnnoooooo!!!!!! Ugh. Oh well, I'll just hold my human baby in one arm and my diamond baby in the other and gaze adoringly at both until I can squeeze it on my finger!


GL...completely understand "pregnancy brain!" I've been a little "off" lately, I cried while watching that stupid Mandy Moore movie "A Walk To Remember" yesterday. Non-pregnant me wouldn't be caught dead watching that movie (basically about two 16 year olds who get married b/c she's dying of cancer and doesn't believe in premarital sex)...much less CRYING over it. I'm so embarrassed!  

Anyway, we are under alot of stress and I KNOW if this baby comes early, DH will totally LOSE it and freak out. Our house is literally chaos right now, no kidding at all! 4 dogs, two cats, the room we are making into the nursery is impenetrable due to boxes stacked about 4 ft high, I can't even get to our washer and dryer to wash clothes due to all the tools stacked up in the laundry room, our bedroom has two paths--one to my side of the bed and one to his, the room we are renovating as our room just got a coat of primer but the floors have to be refinished, the dining room has all the baby furniture and Christmas boxes stacked wall-to-wall with one path leading through to the kitchen (we can't get to the attic to store the Crhistmas stuff due to the renovations upstairs), and the garage work has been delayed by about three weeks due to the weather. All this and our baby is due in 7 weeks. Do we have a FREAK OUT SMILEY???!!!!???

I can't wait to see pics, David knows how to pick gorgeous stones!!!

 

This "freakout" is not easy to find because it looks innocent for a second before it freaks out. And by that time I'm looking at the booby dancing banana.