Romantic Gesture

Now that sweet valentines day is over I finally feel the pressure to be romantic goddess is now off.

After a months worth of being faced with love hearts and roses I was nauseous at the prospect of participating Valentines alone - the man being sent away on a course by work.

It is no secret that out of the two of us I often don’t manage to find the time to invest in romance. I often leave it all very last minute - then to complain obviously if he doesn’t make enough effort! So this year I have decided to really pull out the stops.

I decided that if we could not be together in person then I will be in spirit - via secret romantic notes that I would stash in his belongings! Ha, he would never expect that. A foolproof way of ensuring that the day would not pass without constant reminders of my undying love.

First things first, I find some little cards on which I write one line slushy gestures to succeed in my romantic plan. If nothing else I could see it being a sure fire way to make the man smile and possibly lead me to a rather relaxing weekend of pampering on his return.

Cards done, I proceeded to plant my (many) gestures throughout his belongings mainly in his kit bag, admittedly get slightly carried away. Wash bag, trouser pockets and almost any other sneaky place they could fit in. Lastly I placed a humorous card alongside his pants for the finishing touch.

All that was needed was for them to be discovered and for the man to be bowled over by my amazing act of romance.. I wished that I could see the surprise on his face.

The cards had been found, only not by The man. In my scrambling to hide the cards without being caught I had not paid much attention to the stuff in the bag, maybe If I had I would have noticed that it was actually his boss’s kit bag that the man had offered to bring for him.

Well at least it put a smile on his face even if it is an embarrassed one! Maybe I will stick to cooking a nice dinner next year - as well as avoiding his work till then too, hopefully by then the red from my cheeks will have faded.