 
Birth Stones “A Mother’s Ring! Is this for me?” Blush. Blush. Grin. Grin. “It’s so beautiful. I would never have guessed you guys would’ve thought to get me one!” Around my finger went the shiny gold band. More blushing and grinning went my color and expression. My erect fingers spread in a horizontal fashion. My eyes scrutinized the five stones—each representative of one of my offspring. “This one looks pinkish!” I extrapolated in the midst of verbalizing which stone represented which month. “Rubies are supposed to be red... not pink or maroon looking. They’re supposed to be like ruby red lipstick!” Oh well. What can I say? There I was being “Miss Picky”—ruining the family’s surprise—not to mention their shopping for the perfect band and design and stone shape and reasonable price—yada-yada-yada... But what was I supposed to do? The jeweler—at least in my mind—had inserted the wrong stone to represent my daughter’s July birth month. Birthstones also known as natal stones are precious or semiprecious gems that symbolize the time of a person’s birth. The tricky thing is that birth periods associated with the gems could revolve around the calendrical months of the year, the ruling planets, or... Continue Reading HERE |