Are Surprises Like Gift Horses?
It’s fun to plan surprise parties, but not so much fun if you’re left out of the planning. I’m thinking I need to work more with the surprise-ee in the future when I plan some.
Why?
Well, there is this surprise party a foot, to honour Dad this weekend. Saturday I found out not everyone is coming after all. Yesterday I found out there is no plan to come here to the house, as I’d heard earlier. Now all those that are coming will just show up at church to sit with Dad. (And that will wow him)! Then we are all to go to a Greek restaurant in the city for a lunch. Followed by cake and sandwiches at the hotel.
I remember that we planned a surprise 45th anniversary for Mom and Dad some years ago, and kept Mom in the dark to keep her from fretting or trying to help plan. In the end she was hurt that she had not been informed at all. She would have wanted some things differently. I feel some of that tension now myself.
Maybe surprises are like gift horses; Gr’ma used to say that you shouldn’t look a gift-horse in the mouth. That is, don’t try to determine how old or valuable it is. Just say a sincere “Thank you.”
I wonder, how do you feel about surprises? Is the planning, or being surprised, better?
April 29th, 2006 at 7:15 am
Hummmmm….I’m not sure how I feel about “surprises.” I’ve only had one surprise party in my life. I was 14 and they gave me a surprise birthday party. Don’t know if it was the age (I mean 14 is a bad age for feeling dumb!) or what, but I felt sort of silly and ill at ease. These days? As I said, I’m not sure how I would feel. Not much help was I…:o)