Surprise.

My friend Marni gave me a beautiful calendar for my birthday. I was looking through the beautiful pictures on the Sunday after my fun night out and I was telling my husband how romantic the pictures were.

On Monday night, two days before my birthday I came home to find our bedroom carpet in the rubbish bin. Between you and I, I freaked out. I was going crazy inside. I was told that I was not allowed to go into the bedroom until Wednesday. I slept on the couch for two nights. I would have to send Amira into the bedroom to get my clothes and shoes. 2 days rolled on.

On Wednesday afternoon, after I had been 30 for quite a few hours, my family picked me up from work. We went out for lunch and then headed home. Everybody was so excited.

I stood in front of the bedroom door and breathed deeply. I was partly nervous and partly excited.

OH MY GOSH!!!

I wish that I could provide before and after pictures (he didn’t take any!) because you would all be blown away. My sweet, darling husband had remodeled the whole bedroom. Since moving into our home we have never done anything to our bedroom. It had ugly purple walls, broken blinds, mismatched bedding and an ugly dirty carpet.

I opened the door to bright blueish, turquoise walls and painted white floorboards with a beautiful rug. He had moved around the layout of the room, so the room seemed so big and airy. A beautiful piece of fabric covered the windows and he had found a gorgeous, bedside table at the thrift store. In the middle of the room he had bought a brand new bed frame with beautiful bed sheets. It was so beautiful and I could not believe he had done it all in two days!

Last but not least, the walls had newly framed pictures on the wall filled with the romantic pictures from the calendar.

He had listened. He had been romantic. He had done good.

I love him.

(p.s: pictures to come soon)