You may have read my lofty ambitions for this morning of taking something up to Orange County to my husband. Though this happened, the entire excursion was an immense failure. I left right before the boys nap time knowing they would sleep on the way and make the trip a pleasurable one for me. About 20 min into the drive both boys were asleep and all was going according to plan. I had decided to stop when I got up there and get Amos a burrito or a Subway sandwich for him to eat before he went to bed. At night when we talk he is always looking for something to eat right before bed. About 40 min into the drive I realize that my hubby is working an overtime and I don't know what station he is at. I'm determined for this to be a surprise but I call anyway to see if I can discreetly find out where he is working. Well he calls me back and I'm about 15 min from the city he works in. I find out his station but am still talking to him when I get to a place that I have to just pull over because I don't know where I'm going. So I ask if I can call him back (which I never do in the daytime) and he tells me he is going to try to take a nap. I swear I almost started crying. So asks why I want to call him back I feel like I've already "almost" lied so many times in our conversation already because he kept asking where I was and what errands I had to run. He even told me not to use too much gas. ( I almost cried at that too. remember I am pregnant people) So I get off the phone with him and am sitting in a Denny's parking lot when Elijah wakes up crying and doesn't seem able to calm down. He was just uncomfortable and wanted to still be sleeping I think. So I call information to get the number for headquarters to see if I can get an address for the station he is at. As I'm driving down the street I know I'm at the wrong station and that I must have misunderstood which station Amos was at. At this point I have to pee terribly badly and Elijah's crying has turned to screaming. I actually had to get out of the car and shut my screaming child in the car to make the phone calls. I text Amos to just go ahead and take a nap thinking I will just drop off his food for a surprise when he wakes up. I decided to route my GPS to the nearest Subway and then head to the right station. I had to call the headquarters back and the woman asked what exactly I was looking for and I had to tell her who I was and that I was trying to surprise my husband and blablabla. It was relatively embarrassing. So I head off to the Subway. I swear my GPS was routing me in circles around a center that DID NOT have a Subway in it. At this point the kids had calmed down. Well I had taken Elijah out of the car and it took a good 1o min to calm him down, but I digress. So at this point in the middle of being completely lost, all I can think about it how my husband told me not to waste too much gas the phone rings and it's Amos. He asks me a life scheduling questions and asks if everything is OK. "We came to surprise you and I'm lost babe." I whimper pathetically into the phone. "I was just trying to bring you and sandwich and I don't even know where I am". My husband directs me to him and tells me we will go pick something up at Ralphs. I beg him to let me stop at a Subway telling him that I just really wanted to bring him something for tonight before bed. He wins and I meet him at Ralphs. At Ralphs I buy ice cream for all the guys at the station that my husband tried to pay for himself. My poor husband missed out on his nap and came to meet me at Ralphs even though he was nervous that he was going to get a call and have to sprint back to the station (it was right next door). To top this all off it just seemed like a SUPER awkward time to be at the station. Everyone made me feel welcome, but we only stayed about 15-20 minutes, they got a call and we left. Amos did say that he was glad we came, but it just felt like the whole endeavor was a huge FAIL.
The moral however is I gave it everything I had, with screaming kids and all, and even though it was awkward, took up the entire day and ended up being more trouble for my husband than a treat, I do think he knew I was thinking about him. I'm still checking my box for today's mission accomplished.
Hope you ladies had mores success than me. Can't wait to hear all about it.
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AWww honey! I'm so sorry it was rough! I know it will be appreciated! God will honor your intent! You did great! Today for me was good. I too realized how often I shop for myself. I'm not sure I've really ever gone and bought something specifically for him. Like I always pick up stuff just for him, but it's usually when I'm taking care of stuff anyhow. Today I was blessed to go with him to coach soccer and afterwards i dropped him off at home to run to the video store. I grabbed 2 movies he wanted to see, 2 cokes, 2 candies and some popcorn (u know the little deals they give you). I bring it home,hide and wait for him. I was thinking this wouldn't be a big deal, but it was something I did just for him. he likes to watch movies. To my surprise when he came in and I showed him what I had gotten he looked at me smiled hugged me and said "you did that just for me? wow i have an awesome wife". I was so surprised at how much he loved it! So I'm thanking the Lord tonight. Looking forward to tomorrow.
God is so faithful to bless us. Tonight when I was talking to the hubby on the phone he told me that he had made some sarcastic remark about needing something good and a coworker came up and put his hands on his shoulders and said " yeah we all wish we had wives who would drive an hour just to bring us some food." Then amos told me how he just thought about what a great wife he had. I think all in all I was blessed more today with that little comment than he was with my whole challenge. haahaha...God really blesses obedience.
so glad it worked out....I had tears in my eyes! (and I'm not even pregnant!)
Nickole,
I'm so glad to hear that God transformed what seemed to be a failed dare attempt. He is good, isn't He?
As far as the dare goes, I ended up buying Dan a little chocolate treat at the drug store to go with his letter I wrote him. He enjoyed the treat, but he loved the letter. He made some comment how about lucky he is that, after three years of marriage, I'm still writing him love letters (he keeps all of them...even if I write one on a scrap piece of paper). I had planned to give him a back rub too (he's been working hard around the new house), but at about 9 pm, it was official. I had Samuel's stomach bug. I puked on and off all night, and Dan ended up being the one taking care of me.
Anyway, I'm off to read the next entry since I slept the morning away.
-Jessica
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