I love the unexpected. I never want to be told how a movie ends or what someone is getting me for my birthday. Please, let me be surprised! When I was pregnant with our child, we did not find out what we were having ahead of time. Some people thought we were crazy, but I will never forget that moment when the nurse said to me, "What do you think it is, a boy or a girl?" And after 9 months of expectation, we finally met our child in person. The excitement of discovering that we had a son was half the fun!
I've been fortunate to have a lot of great surprises in my life. I've had a number of surprise birthday parties, a surprise engagment party, a surprise house-warming party... but not all surprises have to be on such a grand scale. My neighbor showing up at the door with tomatos, an unexpected check arriving in the mail, my husband coming home for a few minutes between jobs: these bring joy into my day. Life is dull when you know everything ahead of time.
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