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My Favourite Gemstones - The Diamond
It was the year 2000 and our 20th Wedding Anniversary was coming up.
Ever so grateful that we had reached this milestone into our marriage, it’s normal for any woman to expect something big - like a Diamond.
Wayne, my husband is a typical male who has absolutely no clue on birthdays, wedding anniversaries. - He relies on me to take care of that. However, I had hinted enough times the
year before that the following year will be our 20th wedding anniversary.
I had my eyes set on a Diamond. My Mother in law told me Diamond is the stone of the 20th Wedding Anniversary.
It was already February 2000 and there was still no mention of any forthcoming celebration! In fact, he had booked a business trip to Cairns in Queensland...
Okay, I said, business must come first but I thought surely he's got something up his sleeve for our special day. I Checked his flight details - horror of horrors -he's not flying back home till late in the afternoon from Cairns and will arrive in Brisbane at 8 pm!
I was trying to psyche myself up and trying to convince myself that this is was not happening - this Anniversary was a big deal for me - A Diamond for sure! I tried to calm down and think that maybe he had organised to send me flowers while he was in Cairns.
The big day came March 15, 2000, the day passed, nearly
3pm - no flowers, no gift left anywhere in the house – I looked everywhere, I looked in the cupboards, nothing. I looked under the bed, nothing there either.
Under the sink I found nothing, ratting through the safes found my search come up empty – I ended up with nada, nil. I began to cry and started to get extremely upset.
Our two boys, Jason and Mark wondered why I looked so unhappy and they tried to cheer me up.
It was time to drive to Brisbane to pick him up, I had spoken to him previously in the day and he had said that he’d had a good trip and that the Opals had sold really well.
I was thrilled that business in Cairns was good and forgot that I was upset for a little while.
All we talked about in the car on the way home was business - no mention about the big anniversary!! - No flowers still.
Jason and Mark were excited to see their father back home and playing with him.
Wayne ordered me to get dressed and told me we were meeting a business associate for coffee at the Casino.
As I came out all dressed - he held my hand and placed the most beautiful ring on my finger - it was a 4ct Princess Cut Diamond Ring, the most beautiful, flawless Diamond Ring I'd ever seen and it was on my finger!
It was a bit big for my finger though so I placed some tape around it so I wouldn't lose it - I just had to wear it that night.
The diamond by far made up for the stress I had gone through all day.
As you can imagine, I was at the Jeweller first thing the following morning to have the ring adjusted to fit my finger.
How did Wayne get hold of this Diamond Ring?
According to Wayne, the year before while waiting for a flight back home from Perth, he met a South African Diamond dealer. They exchanged cards and talked business.
The South African was on his way back to South Africa and asked Wayne if he would be willing to exchange an extremely good quality Opal for a good quality diamond. Sure enough the deal was done.
Diamonds have never been Wayne's forte - He believed the South African that it was flawless, extremely good quality and so on and so forth and he decided to just put the Diamond Ring behind the safe (not inside the safe!, No wonder I couldn't find anything in the safe when I was looking earlier in the day. )
It was a happy ending to the story, just like a fairy tale.
I Had the Diamond ring adjusted and the evaluation came up trumps – I was very, very happy with my Diamond Ring and I now wear it everyday.
Now I can say with faith that Men can be capable of showing their feminine side every now and again - we women just need to make sure that we trigger it and make the most of our ability to get it out of them.
I would like to add that it was one of our best years - 20 Years and we're still married and have just celebrated 27 years (in March 2007) of married bliss.
Estela Sedawie