I need to change my expectations. Bud and I have been married a long,long time. He just called me out to the shop to see a Big Surprise. I was somewhat caught up in it since I had asked him to do a number of things for me. He had cleaned off his fly tying bench and installed some repurposed speakers. I couldn’t spot the surprise. Where would a person ever get the idea a surprise was for them? I need to work on myself.
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Ha! This reminds me that my 5-year-old daughter equates the word surprise with present. I am desperately trying to get her to know they are not the same thing 🙂 Thank you for checking out my blog as well and giving it a follow – I appreciate it!
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I kind of still think that.
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Maybe the surprise was that he did anything at all. Maybe he’ll start on YOUR to-do list next.
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I asked him yesterday, “How is my desk renovation going?” Him “It’s in the early stages.” Me “Oh, you haven’t started.” Him “I’m still thinking about it.”
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Add me to the list of selfish people – to me a surprise means that I am part of enjoying it. I don’t think I want to change that mindset, though :]
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I am shocked!
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Too funny! My husband will clean up something of his and it takes me a while too, to figure it out 🙂
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He surprised you with his thinking you would like it, he did.
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I don’t we speak the same language. He thinks surprise means, “Brag on me!”
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I would love for H to surprise me with cleaning up that workroom! ~Elle
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Hahaha…
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After almost 26 years together, Hubby can still surprise me, and I can still make him laugh. 😀
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Us, too!
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posting you a link to the poem I wrote about ADHD a few years back , I think I said I would send it when I found it. Kind regards Kathy.https://kathymburke.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/i-am-not-bold-teacher-told-me-so/
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Oh thanks!
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ah he loves you so much that he wanted to surprise you by showing you he also loved himself as much very sweet ha ha . Kathy ,
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hee heee hee yep, well he must be doing something right, you’re still with him
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I guess I have no imagination!
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Or he has good points you left out in this one?
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Plenty of them!
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🙂
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I am similar to you in the fact that I would have expected the surprise to have been for me as well
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What’s wrong with us?
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Um, tricky….what about…still a child at heart, and surprises are exciting? (bit feeble I know, but I bet your face fell when you saw that ‘surprise’! )
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Well, not really. We’ve been married forever. It was pretty typical. I got a Schaeffer pen and pencil set for Christmas the year we got engaged. One time for my anniversary he bought me a home made purse a woman came through selling where he worked. I think she was homeless.
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Ha Ha! Sorry to laugh, but that is hilarious. Bless him. at least he gets you a present, however strange it may be. 🙂
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I don’t we speak the same language. He thinks surprise means, “Brag on me!”
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Ah yes, an opportunity to show-off. I prefer the “look what I got you/did for you” kind of surprise, being as selfish as I am! 🙂
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I am selfish like that too!
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