My wife just started her 12-8:30 shift at Costco.
Since she doesn’t have any access to the Internet, I can let you in on a HUGE secret!
Everybody celebrates their anniversary…
well, maybe not quite everybody…
people forget or stop liking each other…
but, you get the idea.
But, how many people celebrate the day they proposed???
The idea first came to me last year. I was creating a family version of a “This Day in History” calendar. When I put this date in, I wanted to start celebrating it.
My initial plan was to take her out on a date tonight. So, I asked her to ask her supervisor not to schedule her to work. Obviously, that didn’t work out quite right!
I was less than thrilled when she told me on Monday night.
“But I am off on Friday! Can we go out Friday night?”
I was thinking, of course we can…but that is just a regular date.
While driving to work yesterday morning, I got a brilliant idea…
I called Lauren (her only Kansas City friend that I also know well) and asked if she could help me recreating our date when I asked her to marry me. She loved the idea!
She is going to meet my wife for coffee at Mimi’s Cafe. She is get a table and sit in such a way that my wife cannot see me walking into the restaurant. The two of them will then sit down and place their orders. Then our friend will get up to go to the bathroom and I will walk in…
exactly like I did 24 years ago!
Back then, my wife knew that I was going to ask her to marry her any day. The only question was when…
She was certain that I would meet her when she got off the plane from her family reunion…
But I wasn’t there.
She thought I would ask her at a church event the next day…
But I didn’t
When Rebecca asked her to go to dinner before the home Bible study, she grew suspicious. However, after they ordered the food, she concluded that it wasn’t going to be that night. She dropped her guard and relaxed.
Boy, was she wrong!
She was so surprised when I walked up to the table that she shielded her eyes with her hand…almost like a little child trying to hide behind a skinny, little tree.
She later told me that was the first time that she had ever been surprised in her life!
I couldn’t believe that…
“What about Christmas?”
As a child, she would sneak into the closet with the Christmas presents, open them, see what she was getting, put them back in the box, tape it shut and then pretend to be surprised on Christmas morning!
I don’t think she has a clue about tonight either…
But the 2.3 million regular readers of this blog do! (LOL)
Stay tuned!
