One Week Ago :: Tuesday
posted May 20th, 2008 by Shannon
Today was a tough day that was ending with all 3 kiddos crying (uh, screaming) in unison at bedtime. My evening took a turn for the better, however, when my cell phone notified me that I had a voice message from George. The team was tired from the work today but it looked like they had indeed hit water! He also said he didn’t think I had received all 3 of his text messages.
Three? Nope, I’d only received one. A text message from me and one back from him and we cleared up what I had and had not received. The messages I missed had instructed me to “Go talk to The Cat in the Hat. He had something for me.” I went into Tiger’s bedroom (who was still awake…at 10:30PM!) and searched the bookshelves until I found this:
And behind the book was this:
A sweet Mother’s Day card and a bag of Dark Chocolate Toffee Almonds. Mmmm! Poor guy. He’d been trying to tell me about his little surprise for over 48 hours and he was not getting any response back from me. That had to have been frustrating for him.
(This was the last text message I received while he was away. He sent more but they were never received by me.)
Filed under: Adventures, Family on May 20th, 2008
Ahh, finally, I’ve been waiting for this one. The one where I don’t look like a bad husband that forgot to call to say happy mother’s day. The whole cell phone situation was quite frustrating. I received all the messages that Shannon sent to me, but she only received about 10% of the ones I sent. Even when I called her, we were never able to connect, and I had to just leave voice mails (and pay $2 per minute for those).
Oh well, next time I go to El Salvador, I’m taking my lovely wife with me.
I wish I had a picture of the smile on Shannon’s face when she showed me the text message and took me into the reading cave to see the surprise behind “The Cat in the Hat.” FINALLY, an explanation to the lack of communication from George. We were both confused because that is not like him. I had tried to come up with several explanations like maybe his cell phone was down (he had not taken a charger) or maybe the cell phone couldn’t get out. We both knew they were working very, very hard during the day but were surprised that he had gone several days without contacting her. This hidden surprise was so sweet George! I was impressed! (just a bummer that your text message didn’t get delivered to Shannon when it was supposed to!)