It came! It took a bunch of emails and two weeks, but my stolen necklace has been replaced. It looks beautiful. I will take it to get appraised the next time I am in town, but from what I can see - and my opinion is by no means professional - it looks real. For now I am just so relieved that it has been replaced. I just don't have enough money to throw that much away.
It is an infinity heart necklace. It symbolizes eternal, endless and unbreakable love. Blending the heart (love) with the infinity symbol (no beginning or end) to represent a bond that is forever.
I will leave this necklace with the baby book I had bought her when she was born. I am hoping that she will see that she had another grandmother too,... one her mother wouldn't allow her to see. I am hoping this tells my granddaughter that she was not only loved,... but thought of every single day. And I hope it makes her feel even a tiny connection to me. She will never know who I really was,.... as she only has her mothers version. But I hope this gesture will allow her to open her heart and love me for being her grandmother and not for what she has heard from everyone else.
I want her to know her Irish roots. I want her to know her family history. So I will leave a 'letter' telling her all about her female ancestors that came before her. The same women I have put on my own headstone. Bringing us all back together. I hope she will someday visit my grave and see the women whos blood is running threw her veins. Strong women who led hard lives. Survivors,....
- Anna Louisa Calgey 1856 ~ 1899
- Elizabeth Ann Ball 1879 ~ 1920
- Ida Maye Dyer 1916 ~ 1994
- Diane Holyoak 1945 ~ 2013
- Jacqueline Rose Holyoak 1963 ~ ?
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