Christmas Miracle

Some background... Hubs and I had to postpone our wedding THREE times because of the kids coming to live with us. It's been a rocky road. Finally we just did it with our witnesses.

During that time we had used our wedding money and wedding ring money to take care of the kids needs for back to school, etc... because we were told we would be reimbursed. We put our rings on layaway at the jewelers thinking we would just pick them up when it came through. That never exactly happened and we thought we had lost our down payment and our rings. We were not happy because it was A LOT of money and we loved our rings. They were perfect.

This morning we took the folding seat in to see if they could install it and it turned out that they could...in two weeks. We heard a commercial on the radio for the jeweler that we had been dealing with and they had recently moved...one street over from where we were. We thought, what the heck let's see what's what.

We walked in and they set out to find out the status. It turned out that Hubs ring was still back there and that we only owed $20 on it! I was so thrilled! It was a special order ring because of the way his hands and fingers are permanently curved from his paralysis. I paid the $20 and we are waiting for the engraving to be done. It should be ready next week. We weren't penalized and didn't lose any money.

As for my rings, it looked bleak at first. He said he had looked up the rings and couldn't locate one but it showed that the other was returned to inventory and was out on the floor.

I was waaaay excited because I knew it had to be my eternity wedding band. It's so beautiful and so mine! The other ring I wasn't worried about because the jeweler owns the design and I knew they probably hadn't made it yet.

The guy pointed out where in the cases it could be. Within 30 seconds I had spotted it. It was funny because the jeweler said to read the sku I had and he looked up at me, paused and said I was a genius. Even Hubs looked surprised. I said "What?? I know what I want." The jeweler said "I guess so." lol

I was beyond ecstatic. I can't even explain how lucky I feel. The ring is on sale right now for $100 less than what I was going to pay for it and they are having a no sales tax sale. We put it back on layaway. I'm going to use one of my paychecks a month to get it out.

It's soooo beautiful. After we get that one, I'm going to commission them to make my ring and put that on layaway.

Finally something went right.