"The" Ring

My husband just bought me the most beautiful diamond anniversary/celebration ring EVER!!!! We always planned that I'd get a diamond band when I finally got pregnant. That might sound weird and even trivial, but we wanted to have something that signified our past, present, and future. Lately, I've stopped saying, "when I get pregnant, I'll..." It seems so out of our hands, you know? And my DH now gets it too, because he decided to forgo the preconceived idea of waiting until pregnancy and he bought me the ring!

We've been through a lot of trying times in the past 3 years. A lot of our pain has come from unexpected and unplanned infertility, but other pain we've inflicted on ourselves. I'm not going to go into it, partly because I still feel so guilty for my hand in it, and partly because my DH does read this blog. Hi honey! The bottom line, though, is this ring truly symbolizes all that we've faced together. The good, the bad, the downright ugly...and we've made it this far. We still laugh together, A LOT, we share many of the same dreams, we've worked so hard to accept each other with all of our faults, and he's still the only man I could ever dream of coming home to each night. There were quite a few times when both of us almost walked away from this marriage. But, we didn't.

Maybe I can't tell people that this ring is a celebration of our new baby. But, so what? Because come to think of it, I'd rather it be a celebration of US, a reminder that we may be walking through fire, but we're choosing to do it together.