Giving your mom a mothers ring

by Stephanie Tuia


All growing up, you've noticed your mother wearing only one ring; her wedding ring. You may have noticed that she wears other rings for different occasions, but you've always seen her wearing her wedding ring. Amidst the exquisite beauty a wedding ring displays, her ring is symbolic of loyalty and commitment she has for her marriage.

A married couple may choose whether or not to bring in children to their home. Many women have expressed that motherhood is one of the greatest joys of life.

As a wedding ring denotes marriage, is there a ring to denote motherhood? Yes, but not to the same degree, as the idea of a wedding ring is more widely known and acknowledged than a mothers ring. However, a wedding ring and a mothers ring should be held in equally high regard, for they are important milestones of a woman's role as a wife and a mother.

Here is why:

1. Once you become a mother, you are always a mother. With that you should wear a mothers ring to acknowledge and be proud of this esteemed title.

2. Like women wearing their wedding rings as a commitment to their husbands, mothers are entitled to wear their mothers ring as a commitment to their children.

Why you should give your mother a mothers ring...

I didn't hear about a mothers ring until recently. When I browsed through a jewelry catalog, I saw a beautiful mothers ring that was certainly fitting for my mother. Past years of my siblings and I giving our mom a card or flowers for Mother's day seemed so repetitive lately. This upcoming Mother's Day I have the idea of honoring our mom with a mothers ring.

Open and personalized to a mother's taste, a mothers ring can feature an extravagant jewel or be just a simple band. In contrast to a wedding ring, a mothers ring doesn't have to be a financial investment, but can be very flexible in pricing.

For this upcoming Mother's day, you will have several months to save up or at least think about what to give your mother. This time, think a bit outside of the obvious and consider giving your mom a mothers ring in May.


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Besides a mothers ring, there are many other jewelry items that display a woman's joy of motherhood equally well.

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Listen to your heart

by Stella Parker


Terry Hershey Park is a great park like area which runs for miles and miles along Houston's Buffalo Bayou. It's a great place to walk, run, take your dog, mountain bike and just generally enjoy the outdoors and we're fortunate to have such a large open space within the city limits of Houston for exercise and fresh air.

As I was finishing up a run this morning in this park and passing a group of walkers, one called out to me asking what time it was. I called back that I was sorry but I didn't know the exact time. The group seemed suspicious of my answer and then I noticed that they were staring at the watch like appendage on my wrist. Then it sunk in: they reasonably thought that my heart monitor was a watch and I was just being uncooperative in not answering them. I raised my wrist and pointed at the monitor and pleaded with them that it was just a heart monitor, not a watch. They still seemed put off and weren't buying my explanation.

So it seems there are still a lot of people out there who aren't familiar with a heart monitor. But you should be. This is a simple device, which normally consists of an elastic band that wraps around your body near the rib cage and holds a device that snuggles close to your heart to read your beats per minute and then sends a signal to a watch-like device on your wrist. Strap into the device and put on the wrist receiver and you have a continuous digital readout of your beats per minute by just glancing at your wrist.

The heart monitor is an extremely useful piece of exercise equipment and if you are serious about exercising you will want to wear one during your various exercise routines. Listening to your heart will tell you a lot about your fitness level. What heart rate range are you normally training in? What is your standing or resting heart rate? How many beats per minute do you drop as you recover from strenuous exercise in the first minute, and thereafter? The list of useful functions of a monitor could go on.

A rough guide to your maximum heart rate is to subtract your age from 220 and some suggest that you should use a slightly higher figure than 220, say 225, if you are a man. This is only a rough guide and there are more sophisticated ways to gauge your estimated personal maximum heart rate. Once you have a feel for your max heart rate, a monitor is going to tell you how strenuous a workout you are getting at any one point in time. This is incredibly valuable information. The heart monitor is invaluable for circuit training and interval training. Generally speaking, getting your heart rate up is going to give you a more complete workout and burn more calories. As always, check with your doctor before starting a workout program and discuss your target heart rates with her.

Listening to your heart will pay huge fitness dividends.

Money quote: "The results [from the study] suggest that frequent and moderate exercise can limit sudden-death risk. The heart profile least associated with sudden death -- a low resting heart rate that slowly rises to a high level during exercise, then drops quickly to normal after activity stops -- is commonly found in athletes in prime physical form."


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