Later in the morning while I was talking away on the phone in my office there was a knock at the front door and look what an anniversary surprise I received…
A rose for every month we have been married…it was a fun and thoughtful surprise. My colleague Bob was on the phone with me and I told him. He said “Oh when my wife had our first child I thought of sending her a dozen roses for every pound the baby would. I thought it would be about 7 lbs. In the end, our son was 9lbs and I sent her 9 dozen roses. Now I look back and think about how much money that was and what a waste and how I could spent it on so many other things…” Yes you can spent money on other things. I after all was raised by Jane who always said “oh flowers just die” and I once early on in our relationship told Nathan that so he was a bit nervous of my brash attitude towards flowers and hesitated to send me any flowers. Thankfully I quickly got over “flowers die”. I love flowers, the sentimentality behind sending them and that Nathan asked Ron the local florist who did our wedding flowers to have the roses look like our wedding roses. Delivery was much easier this time. On our wedding day, Ron got up at 3AM to deliver every thing to Fargo.
I slid every thing on the counter down to one side so my picture would just have a clean kitchen back drop of my beautiful bouquet. ( Note: despite my effort there is still one corner of a sippy cup and the free Sports Illustrated gift we got in the mail…a remote control alarm clock in lower right hand corner of the picture but the dishes were done. Hunter is our morning empty the dw man.)
Nathan came home over lunch and made homemade brownies as another anniversary surprise. This has been an ongoing joke. Nathan’s college friends talk about how he used to bake and cook including his “awesome” brownies that had “a whole can of Hershey’s syrup in them”. Well, I have never had the brownies or ever seen Nathan bake. Until yesterday. This was originally told to me that for our first wedding anniversary he would make brownies. The cement for our basement was being poured that day last year and we jetted then to Fargo for a night away at the HoDo (stay there if you are coming to ND). So Hunter has reminded (and maybe me too) Nathan of this promise of anniversary brownies. He delivered. They were yummy. We ate them after going out to dinner at the local restaurant (aka only one open in the evenings). And tonight the pan is empty. Thankfully calories do not count on your anniversary or the day after either…
Leave a Reply