This weekend we surprised my mother-in-law, Carolyn, with a Surprise 65th/Retirement Party. Since most of Marty's family lives in Western Kentucky, we enlisted his sister to organize the event and his cousin did the decorating.
The orchestrating of such an honorable deception as a surprise party does not phase my naturally sneaky mind. I didn't anticipate the nervous tension it would create for the key players new to the surprise game. They had to get Carolyn to the opposite side of town than she thought she was going at a time when she'd made other plans for herself. It almost fell apart. Stomachs churned with butterflies. Nails were bitten. And, I understood what Marty meant when he said they'd never done anything like this before.
But, alas, she was surprised!
