Moon Festival is this Sunday. My mom emailed me to make sure Mr. W and I would be going to visit them. I reassured her that I would, and got this email in response:

“Remember the Moon Festival night last year? me and your dad at Diamond bar senior club park enjoy the moon light and You were on vacation in somewhere, talked about the ring over the phone with me and end up I paid for it. it’s been a year already, don’t forget to wear that ring Sunday. I think after dinner, maybe we can bring moon -cakes and tea there to enjoy the moon light for a while.”

The “on vacation somewhere” was on the Big Island of Hawaii for Mike (Wilco) and Christi’s (Flip Flop Girl’s) wedding. That ring was my birthstone, an incredible quality of natural color-change Alexandrite set between diamonds on a white gold band. I just got the ring re-rhodiumed recently and picked it up with Jordan when she was here for OUR wedding. How funny the things that link together.