My birth-day will be in a few weeks. Every year my husband and children ask me what I would like…each year I say the same thing…
A House! A Car! And most importantly A Big ROCK! (When I say big rock, they know I mean a big diamond ring, I always connect the tip of my thumb to the tip of my pointer finger, making a circle, then I put the circle-diamond on my ring finger saying; Big ROCK!)
Every year my husband and children look at each other roll their eyes and shake their heads in unison.
That is why this morning when their famous question was asked, and their waiting for my famous response endured, I decided to shake it up a bit! I added this:
For my birthday If I receive the Big Rock…pause… I will go rock climbing with you wherever you want! They literally jumped! "What! Anywhere! You’ll hang on a rope like a worm! Really off the Cap de Morgiou! Come on Mommy your kidding, you would NEVER do that!" Yann looked at me seriously; I seriously looked back…"You will go rock climbing, hang on the ropes, if you receive a big diamond ring?"
"OUI! Big Rock, diamond, square cut, I’ll be the first one off the rock!"
Chelsea gives me a smirk of a smile, "Do tell me more, have you ever seen this "ring" you talk about? Mommy, are you sure of what you are saying?"
The three of them seem to being playing cards with me, calculating, trying to figure out who has the leading hand …they know I live to cheat at cards… "I saw the diamond of my dreams, on the hand of a very old woman, while we were attending Mass, in the grotto of Marie-Magdalene…a square cut, big beautiful old diamond…I must admit, my attention wandered during Mass because of that ring!"
Yann smiled, "God is in all things, even rings."
"Well, there you have it my annual birthday wish with a play on words…ring ….rock. I hope God is in all things, because if I receive the rock of a ring, then God help me off that rock of a cliff!
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PS. This they know to be true: My birthday wish of a house, car and ring, is my way of saying I have everything I want. And what I have is wonderful, house = home, Car = energy to continue forth, and Big rock = equals security in their love for me.
pss. I do not want a rock on my finger, nor on my head!
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