A Mother's Day Surprise...

I had a wonderful Mother's Day today but I have share the story that got us to the wonderful part.

My mother and husband both have birthdays the last week in April so we just got done celebrating those.  Mother's Day kind of snuck up on me.  So that brings me to yesterday.  Sometime Saturday afternoon I decided to call my sister and dad to discuss Mother's Day plans.  I believe the words out of my mouth to my sister were something along the lines of, "Since it doesn't seem our dad or husbands have thought of doing anything for us let's just all decide on a restaurant to go eat at so we don't have to fix lunch ourselves."  So we did that.  After church we were all going to meet at Lone Star.  YUM!

Fast forward to today.  My sister and BIL went to the early service this morning and we went to the 11a service. My BIL texted my husband while we were in the service and said he had left his wallet at our house last night and he couldn't get it because he left the key to our house there too (they have a spare for us).  He asked if we could please come home first.  So I have the bright idea I will drop my husband off to get a table and run home.   My BIL says there is such a long wait let's just regroup at our house and decide on a place.  I get home and everyone is there waiting.  I run in the house looking all around the house for his wallet.  No wallet.  I start to go back out and tell them this and they barge in with all these bags.  The guys had been planning Mother's Day after all!  They grilled us steaks, baked potatoes and baked beans.  They even had a pie and ice cream.

In a word I felt a bit sheepish that I had assumed the guys had thought of it and had taken it upon myself to plan.   I couldn't help myself I'm a planner!   But it turned out great.  The ladies didn't have to cook and it was much better than what I had planned :)  God has blessed us with awesome men in our lives!