A Charming way to Commemorate

At the approach of my daughter's first birthday I knew that I wanted to do something to commemorate each of her birthdays in a special way. When I was a child I had always wished that I had received a porcelain ballerina figurine or a snow globe to commemorate each birthday, but I knew that these items were impractical for my daughter. Snow globes and ceramic figurines aren't easy to store, move, and are easily breakable. I knew that these items wouldn't be around forever and I was looking for something that would be permanent. That's when I had the idea to buy a charm for each of my daughter's birthdays to commemorate the previous year's time spent together. Charms were small and relatively unbreakable. Then I found www.chains-and-charms.com and they had every charm I could ever hope to find!

The first year I bought a baby charm because that was the year she was my baby and to symbolize that she will always be my baby. The second year I brought a dog charm, because dog was one of her first words and dogs were briefly an obsession of hers. If I hadn't bought this charm, I think I might have already forgotten this. This year I plan on buying her a book charm because she has become so interested in books. She loves for her father or me to read to her, as well as making up games and hop scotch mats with her books. On either her sixteenth or eighteenth birthday I plan on having the charms soldered onto a charm bracelet with a letter explaining each charm and what they symbolize. In this way, I will be able to mold together her childhood and the years she spent at home with her father and me. I think this is something that she will cherish all her adult life. I wish my mother had done something like this for me. I hope this bracelet will always show her the love and affection her father and I have for her. So for me, these charms that I am buying for my daughter show my love for her, my gratitude for our time together, and as a reminder of things that might otherwise be forgotten.

- Stacey P.