I clutched my pearls so hard they turned to dust.

True fact: I once sat in a room of highly paid educators for HOURS as they tried to come up with an acronym for the program we were putting together. Not working on goals, objectives, strategies, outputs. etc. Trying to come up with the damn acronym. I was almost murderous by the time it was over.

Thus the dismissal of the authenticity of the apparitions by the Vatican?

I don’t blame you one bit.

I really hope that you are making the part about “adopted children carrying the sins of the parents” up, because that is some really sick shit and I don’t want it to be true.

Why would they put their Deity in the same room with a mythical giver of gifts? So weird.

WHAT. THE. HELL. I can’t even begin to think how you would come back from this kind of boundry destroying treatment. My heart breaks for all the children of these people.

Boo.

Oh crap, really? I was afraid that was going to happen because the mother was ignoring it, and they do that when one is sick sometimes. Poor thing.

SO CUTE!!!

Lovely girl.

This woman is 67 years old. Damn near 70 and she rocks it like that!

Laura darling, you are neither fat nor old. Love, old badmutha.

Seriously? I had no idea these people were that nutty. I have never seen the show or heard either of them talk.

And adorable dogs.

BITE YOUR TONGUE!!

Growing up, we had friends who bought giant, gaudy diamond rings as an “investment.” I felt really sorry for them.

Canary diamonds are supposed to be worth more, and we were told it was worth around 9k. But no one offered us anywhere close to that. It was perplexing.

Hopefully they couldn’t switch the stone out easily because of the cut. But I understand your fear. The guy who did this to my friend had known her for years. She considered him a friend!

“Not letting it leave your sight” is real. A friend had her ring “cleaned” only to find out that someone at the shop replaced her very high value center stone with a much cheaper one. She confronted them and they replaced it, but only after the threatened to tell the press.