Happy Valentine's Day!??

Okay, okay- I know Valentine's Day is not until February 14th.  However, it seems Art has inherited present impatience from his father.  Every birthday, Christmas, anniversary, or other gift giving holiday Art's dad has a very hard time keeping a secret and waiting until said holiday to give Bev her gift. It has become a game to see how long he will make it before either letting it slip or just giving it to her. So anyway, as Art gets older, he too is developing this impatience.  The thought of having a gift in the house for me kills him, even if I do not know about the gift. Enter Valentine's Day 2009. First example, about a week ago I was reading through the local Clipper magazine and telling Art all the restaurants that are having Valentine's Day specials. He then tells me, "no need to read those I already have reservations somewhere." "Oh okay, well where are we going?""Nope, it's a surprise, not telling.""Okay." And the conversation ends. Well about five minutes later (we were in the car, I was still looking through the Clipper while Art drove) "okay, fine! We are going to Farnsworth House. I made reservations today."  Example two, Art asked me what I wanted for Valentine's Day to which I replied nothing. Let's just have a nice dinner and skip the gifts, and I sincerely mean this as we do not generally give Valentine's gifts. Well fast forward a couple days to yesterday, I am sitting in the downstairs entryway cleaning and sorting through the junk from the laundry room (it is being renovated and stuff is everywhere, that is another post in itself).  In walks Art holding a box and says, look what cupid dropped off - Happy Valentine's Day! He then proceeds to tell me it arrived via UPS that afternoon and it has been killing him that he had it and had to wait 3 more days. So what was it you may ask? My Nikon D90 camera that I did not get for Christmas. So I guess I won't complain that I got it early.

Happy (early) Valentine's Day! 

XOXO