Sorry it has taken so long to post about how my DH surprised me. My DH had last week off so we were busy doing things around the house not to mention we went away for a night. More on that later. Back to the desk...
My DH has been wanting to get a desk for me as I didn't have one and honestly for me I felt a little disorganized with not having one place to have all my stuff. Well, Monday morning of last week my DH and I were working on cleaning and organizing the upstairs. The room served as another guestroom, my DH office, and storage area. Our goal on Monday was to get the upstairs organized so that when we did find a desk it would be all ready to go. That meant we had to move a little loveseat into the attic and place the bed on another wall etc. We got well into that project and then my DH mentioned that he needed to go into another neighboring town and do a little Christmas shopping as well as go to Home Depot and a few other stores along the way. So off he goes!
I on the other hand am at home continuing to work a little on the upstairs and doing some resting as I was working on a bit of a cold. I even had some company stop by who hadn't seen the house since we got marriage so I had to laugh at the disaster they saw upstairs. After they left I was talking to my mom on the phone when my DH called and told me he wouldn't get back to town in time to pick up his pay check. Could I go get it and deposit it at the the bank. (And by the way its 5:35pm and the bank closes at 6pm.) So I jump in the car and head into town and than across town to pick his pay check and then back into town to deposit it. I'm happy to say I made it just before 6pm. (I have to admit I was inwardly wishing he had called me sooner so that I didn't have to be in such a rush.)
So back home I go and just a few minutes after I get in the house my mother-in-love calls and tells me she has some soup for me if I want to come down and pick it up. Soup sounded wonderful but I really didn't want to head down there. I was kindof hoping that my DH would get home soon so I could ask him to get it. I kept chatting with my mom who had been on the phone with me the whole time and after about 20 minutes I figured I better head down to my in-laws. But before I did that I called my DH to see if he would be home soon. He said he didn't think he would be home for awhile so it would be best if I just went. So I quickly went down to my in-laws and left my car running because it was going to be a quick trip but surprise, surprise I ended up talking with them for 15 minutes before leaving. By the time I get home my DH was back, cleaning upstairs. He did that while I got dinner going. I really didn't think anything of it since the upstairs was still a mess. It wasn't until after dinner that he asked me to come upstairs because he wasn't sure where something was suppose to be filed. I was so focused on his desk area that I didn't even look around the room for a while. When I was looking at some new pictures on his wall I noticed out of the corner of my eye something in the previously empty corner with a blanket covering it. I figured I wasn't suppose to notice so I avoided that area until my DH walked over almost next to it and I couldn't not notice it at that point. He asked me if I saw it and I said yes but I wasn't sure if I was suppose to notice it or just wait.
When I pulled the blanket off it revealed my beautiful desk, which I just love!
So the rest of the story goes that my DH was trying to get me out of the house so that he could get the desk in the house without me knowing it. He wanted until the last minute to send me to get his pay check for him but I got home right before he did so he had to come up with a second plan. That's why his mom called me to come down to their house and unbeknownst to me I wasn't cooperating. Apparently my DH and brother-in-law were parked in the trees waiting for me to leave and I was happily chatting away with my mom hoping my DH would get home soon so he could get the soup!!! That is actually where they were when I called my DH. When I finally left they pulled into our driveway backed the pickup right to the roofline, set the desk on the roof, then handed the desk through the window into the upstairs room. (We have a spiral staircase so there is no way the desk could go up it.) They did all this in the 15 minutes I was down at his parents' house!!
All that to say it was a wonderful surprise and I'm very much enjoying using the early Christmas present!!!
