As I was saying last week, if you missed last week, click here…I called the cake guy I knew and he said , he is not sure but would call back, the guy actually called back and said , he has confirmed with his wife and the notice was too short , I asked him for another cake person and he gave me, then I asked, “Is he as good as you?”  he couldn’t answer, ha! I started begging, please even if it is just cupcakes, inshort very tiny cake, okay just give me anything, I’ll take. I got that desperate…I guess he took pity on me, he told me, he would get back to me and called back that he was going to do it, you need to see the relief…cake down, present next. I went online and quickly googled gift ideas in Oman, this led me to a page where they do customised stuff….sincerely I was getting tired of customised things, as I did one on our wedding and had done two while dating, Well I looked through and found some things I liked and after giving it a thought, I picked a pair of boxer shorts, three shirts and a balloon and customised them…The vendors I used all agreed to deliver on friday( friday is when our weekend starts in Oman and it is also our church service). I invited two close friends to meet us up in the evening. IMG_2858 IMG_2600     Behind my shirt was MrPossible’s girl     IMG_2904 IMG_2906 *The ballon had happy birthday in front and his picture behind IMG_2855 *The cake had Happy Birthday Dad, you rock! And happy birthday babe! On the birthday, which was on a friday, MrPossible was on a very high spirit, I don’t know, if it was because he was getting older or he thought I would surprise him…
I woke up, prayed for him and said the happy birthday, maybe he thought I will jump out with a gift but as we went to church and there was still nothing, he was keeping hope alive thinking that after after church, there would be something amazing….well when church service was over, I asked him to take us out to a place of his choice but I was gonna be taking up the cheque, when he realised it was a place of his choice , the boys face dropped, he later said , he was thinking, “so no surprise” he took us to the place, you should have seen his face, like a very sad child with no birthday present, Inshort to me, he was sulking, then I asked ” are you upset?” hahahaha…he said a sharp No, I said so why are you sulking, “You are upset I did not pull a surprise right, I am so sorry”  and I gave the normal excuse, “with babyJ, I couldn’t plan anything” and when I saw his face dropped more , I said Okay, I would take you out to dinner and I invited your friends  and also I booked down a massage for you, loll he said “okay” in a sober tone, I even went further to say “you have ruined the surprise now, because I have told you everything, if you were just a little patient” hehehehe, I was definitely enjoying this game.  I can imagine him thinking “this girl has changed, so because we have a baby, we cannot do what we normally do?” maybe if I had jumped out of a cake, it would have been more exciting. lol Prior to that, while we were on our way to church, he asked if he was gonna get a cake, I said No  and asked who would eat the big cake? he said that it was a birthday, birthday comes with cake and he wants a cake and it should be chocolate and red velvet ( exactly what I ordered so I thought he saw my chat…but he did not), he even threatened to buy a cake….hahahaha While we were having lunch, he felt okay again but not excited as before, after lunch we got home and MrPossible just sat there responding to chats while I fed babyJ, he noticed I was checking my phone but I acted like it was nothing, then a call came in and I gave direction, you should see how his face lit up, he started getting very jumpy, all of a sudden two cars pulled in front of our house and he could not contain his smile…there it was, his amazing cake and the customised goods…as soon as he saw the cars, he started jumping, held babyJ and was throwing her up and saying babyJ there is cake..yes!, he kept doing this and throwing her up, the little girl joined in on the fun and when he saw the shirts and other stuff, he said “Now  this is what I am talking about” Then I was like Happy Birthday! while I silently told myself that “I have entered one chance o, I shall keep surprising him for the next 98 years of marriage”
 I later asked him to tell me what he had been thinking, that was when this boy said, “how will I not surprise him? that  it is the fun in the celebration, it is something we do? how will I stop now? that he will not agree o, we have to keep surprising ourselves” ( see me see local trouble).   In the evening we went out, all dressed up to meet up with our friends, shared the cake and had a little get together…it was fun!   Oh well, I shall get a book to start planning surprises like twice a year…It is how you start a relationship, you will continue…hahahaha! Looking back on the birthday, I enjoyed every second of tormenting him and the expression when he got the gift was priceless! I will put up other surprises we’ve had from time to time so you will understand our journey so far…. Off to plan the next surprise! loll.      
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