Tangled Up in Blue

Remember, last month, when I was looking for dresses to wear to Dudley and Squeaky’s wedding? Do you also remember that Mr. Chili put in a specific request that I wear a blue dress? Do you also remember that this request confused me a bit, because green is really my best color?

Well, it turns out there was a reason for the color choice. Mr. Chili presented me with something that looks very much like this, just before the wedding began:

This is not the actual ring he gave to me**, but it’s pretty darned close. My ring is done in yellow gold and the sapphire and diamonds are more proportionally sized in my ring, but this picture gives you a pretty good idea of what is gracing the fourth finger of my right hand at the moment.

The ring is essentially a negative of my engagement ring, which features a round diamond in the center flanked by two sapphires on the sides. Mr. Chili said that this new ring was a combination birthday and tenth anniversary gift, but he loves to give me things when I’m least expecting them; my birthday was in January and our tenth was last June. My husband is a raging romantic (you wouldn’t know it to look at him, but it’s true) and a wedding is just the kind of thing that would inspire him to buy me a gift like this.

Even without the shiny-sparklies, I am crazy, irrationally in love with this man. He is kind and funny, thoughtful and smart, and gentle and affectionate. He puts our marriage above all his other priorities, and I trust him with everything that I am and everything that I have. He’s an amazing father and a true and fierce friend, and I am often astounded by how wonderful my life has been since he agreed to share it with me.

**I’m giving you this picture because it’s much nicer than any of the pictures I took of my own hand…