Oh my gosh, I came home to the best surprise yesterday. I have a group of online friends. There are 5 of us, and we've 'known' each other for 10 years now. We were all pregnant together, so we met through an expecting club, and we've just all grown close over the years and email each other all day long. We get together occasionally, but primarily, we all talk online. We live pretty far apart.

Anyway, they sent me the coolest gifts to Celebrate "the new me" with my surgery. I was so incredibly touched. One was a "luck toggle bracelet" with peridot and the other was peridot and pearl cluster earrings. The cards with them from Red Envelope said that the peridot was "celebrated for centuries for its alleged ability to accelerate personal growth and impart good luck and open doors of opportunity." How cool is that? And very fitting!

Here is a link to the bracelet if you want to see. The earrings must no longer be available. So thoughtful of them! I was so surprised!

RedEnvelope - luck toggle bracelet

Nice, supportive friends. It will help to have that kind of support on your lapband journey.

They have nice taste, too. Bracelet is very pretty!

I love that bracelet!!! Oddly... my birthday is August.. my stone is Peridot... me and my husband got married on St. Patrick's Day last year and our colors were peridot and cream.... and our last name is "LUCK-OW".. Luckow....

It's nice to have supportive friends like that!! when I was recovering last week I had one friend send flowers, my work sent a plant and another sent me like a lotion set... I wasn't expecting anything, but when you do get nice surprises like that, it feels REALLY good.... Congratulations to you and the journey you are going on!! :thumbup:

How fabulous, what a great group of friends you have there. What a thoughtful and beautiful gift!