Not sure if this qualifies as piecing or not...

[TrentC]

Things are progressing well, if slowly; she has been more interested in initiating plans and doing things around the house (a big 180 for her!)

We spent Christmas Eve jamming on a bunch of last-minute gifts; just about everything we gave out this year was handmade by one or the other of us. It was stressful earlier in the week, but by the 24th things were more relaxed.

On New Year's Eve (technically, the night before) we went out to dinner. I gave her a small box that contained the ring I put on her finger when I married her nine years ago, and a wedding band for me.

I lost my ring some time ago, and never got around to replacing it. Her ring was damaged (a diamond fell out of one of the side-channels) and she had been wearing my grandmother's wedding ring; I like the fact that she wore my grandmother's ring, but she had complained that I've never gotten around to fixing hers.

On our anniversary I started putting a small amount of money aside out of every paycheck, and I had enough to buy a replacement ring for myself and get hers fixed.

The only thing that marred the moment? Another diamond fell out of her ring! (It's not the same stone; I checked.) I have the stone and the ring and I am taking it back to the jeweler to get it fixed again.

I told her that I want things to be better this year; I want us to make plans and do things again, and to start considering our future. And that I plan to wear my ring as a symbol of my commitment, and that when she's ready I'd like her to put hers back on as well.

I'm going to get information about the local Retrouvaille session, and talk to a couple of MCs I was researching. I don't want to let 2010 get away from us the way 2009 did.