Surprise Mom! I'm home for Christmas!
on A Serendipitous Journey (Kenya), 18/Dec/2009 13:59, 34 days ago
Anyone who knows me well, won't believe it, but this week I pulled off the biggest surprise of my life!I found a really cheap flight home several months ago and without anyone knowing I flew into Ottawa last Sunday morning to suprise everyone for Christmas! My wonderful cousin John picked me up at the airport at 1:30 am and brought me home to surprise his wife and my best friend Kelly. Kelly is several months pregnant so we had good intentions of trying not to scare her, but somehow I ended up standing over her bed in the middle of the night saying "surprise!" sending her screaming in fright! (In retrospect that was a really bad approach, but since I didn't shock her into early labour it later became very funny!) We showed up on my brother's doorstep early the next morning at the time I had scheduled to speak with him on the phone and got an equally shocked and funny reaction. I enjoyed Sunday with John and Kelly shopping, eating delicious Christmas treats, taking their dog for a walk through the snowy neighbourhood, decorating their Christmas tree and shovelling snow.On Monday afternoon, I was inside my brother and sister-in-law's home when Jessica returned from a weekend trip with my God son and nephew who I haven't met before. Having learned from the Kelly shock, I didn't think it would be so funny to surprise a new mom and baby from inside their home when they were expecting it to be empty, so I left a note on the door and opened it before she got inside. :-) After a few tears and lots of hugs, it was just like old times and I instantly fell in love with her little baby!Meanwhile, my mom and dad who were out of time at the time had been e-mailing and calling me thinking I was still in Kenya and I was messing with them by e-mail telling them how much I missed them and that I wished I could be home for Christmas. On Tuesday night, when they returned, I put on a Santa hat, drove home and ran around the back of the house. I threw a snowball at the window then pressed my face up against it and yelled Merry Christmas to my dad, who after recovering from initial disbelief let me in and told my mom there was a Christmas elf waiting for her downstairs. My mom, when she saw me, just kept repeating "OMG, OMG, OMG!" then stopped talking and didn't move... I sent her into shock it seemed. :-) and then was lovingly called a little brat!I'm home for a month and have enjoyed almost every moment so far. (The only part I'm not enjoying is the ridiculous cold -- it's minus 20 degrees today for goodness sake!)