Surprise!

My 30th birthday is coming up this week and I really haven’t been too excited about it.  I’m not looking forward to actually being 30 but I really wasn’t anticipating the hoopla over the actual day.  I think it has been due to my focus switching from me to my baby.  Not to mention that birthdays in our family have been a family affair for many years (birthday parties with friends ended around 2nd grade) and something that we look forward to.  Knowing this year was not going to be spend together on the actual day but a few days later, I was content on letting the day come and go.  That was until Saturday. 

My husband left early Saturday morning to go pick up the dresser for the nursery from him mom’s.  After asking several times if he wanted me to go with him to keep company, I gave up as every time he said no.  I fiddled around the house and decided that I would get out to run a few errands so he wouldn’t have to do all of them with me when he got home.  So off to Hobby Lobby, The Dollar Tree, the post office, and Crawford Fabrics I went.  While in the fabric store I got a call from my friend Sarah (who lives in TN.)  We chit chatted a bit while I looked around and then drove home.  She was in the process of checking out at Target so we ended the call and I proceeded to do a few things around the house.  In a matter of about 10 minutes, my doorbell rang.  I opended the door expecting to see my neighbor, only to see Sarah.

She explained that she and Joel had been conspiring for months for her to come down for my birthday and that I wouldn’t expect her to come seeing that they just came down in July.  I told her that I knew that Joel had been planning something for my birthday but I was expecting dinner with a few local friends, certainly not this.  As we waited for my husband to come home, we chit chatted over this and that.

Later that afternoon, we headed out to register for a few baby things and to look at fabric.  I was told that we should plan on heading home around 4:30 as Joel had done call ahead seating at Carrabas for dinner.  So off we went.  As we drove into the parking lot of Carrabas, I saw Holly and Jonathan and the puzzle was complete.  Joel had invited them as the second part of my surprise.  At the close of dinner, I agreed to have the waiters sing to me ony because I wanted the ice cream they were offering and Joel gave me my gift.  For weeks now I thought I had him pegged as to my gift.  Boy was I completely wrong.  I opened the box to find a pair of peridot hoop earings that have stones all the way around the hoop.  They were beautiful. 

My husband pulled on over on me this weekend with something that I really didn’t think that he would coordinate.  By weekend’s end, I was spent.  Sunday night we laid on the couch watching a movie and were in bed by 9:45 and after watching a little bit more tv, we went to sleep by 10:15.  I can’t say that I got a lot accomplished this weekend but I did enjoy myself.  Joel did really well with this surprise and I enjoyed my day.  We’ll still celebrate with family this weekend so I’ll get the best of both worlds. 

I’m so looking forward to seeing family as it has been a while and no one has seen me pregnant except for the pictures.  We’ll laugh and cut up, drive, and drive some more but it will be worth it all.  Truth be told, I think we’re all a bit “family sick” and ready to be recharged.