One niece and two rings left...

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It was probably in the early 90's, R says to me, we should pick up some earrings or something and keep them for the nieces until their 16th birthdays. So I went shopping. Dawns love to go shopping. But earrings of the sort I was looking for, in the price range I was looking for, were very hard to find. So I started buying up rings. Gemstone rings, semi precious, mostly ranging from about $70 to $100. He looked at me funny when I showed him some. "I thought I said earrings." Yup, you did, but try and find them. Rings are easier. So every time a niece had a 16th birthday (they were ALL nieces until later - nephews get watches, purchased not so far ahead), we'd haul out the rings. R would look at them and say, "I thought we got earrings". lol Then the birthday niece would pick the one she wanted. The last two were the nieces in Spokane, and I couldn't get up there, so we had to do it long distance. I sent pictures, they chose, I mailed the ring. I just mailed the garnet ring to my niece Alex (Alexandra). Out of the entire collection, which consisted of (if my memory is right) a garnet, an amethyst, an aquamarine, a pearl, a citrine, a peridot and three blue topazes, there are now only two rings left. And one niece. I bought an extra so the last niece would have a choice, never thinking that the two remaining rings would end up being the same stone (different shapes, different settings). Dilemma dilemma dilemma... Go and pick up another ring so she at least has another color choice, or just let her pick from the two we already have. I can always save the two that are left for my daughters. But anyway, how time has flown from when they were babies to when all but one of them have already turned 16 and gotten their rings. The oldest one has a baby herself. Am I getting old?