Surprise ☆☆☆ . What wonderful surprise have you had ?

How beautiful it looks, Serendipity, and what a lovely, thoughtful friend you have.

What a lovely surprise and it feels so good to know someone is thinking of you.

I remember when I was diagnosed with breast cancer years ago many of my neighbours brought bunches of roses.

This morning I had a text from S2 asking me to compile a list of activities I would like to indulge in with GC. Think his general plan is to work our way through this as and when. I had dinner with him recently and he divulged that the Covid experience had made him rethink his priorities. With a little bit of luck I might be being included in that!!

My son who lives abroad turned up on my doorstep for my husbands (not his father) funeral when I’d told him not to come. I’ve never had such conflicting emotions in my life happy to see him at such an awful time and he managed to take some of the burden off his 2 sisters.

I love all your beautiful surprises.

How lovely to be thought about.

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It is lovely to know that friends and family are thinking about us at tough times.
My younger sister died last week and I received a sympathy card from a very lovely gransnetter who I have never met but has become a good friend. It was a nice surprise.
There was an amusing side too as the card was delivered to my new neighbour in error. She assumed it was a birthday card and included a happy birthday card to me when she put it through my letterbox. I daren’t tell her, she’d be mortified.

I’ve had some lovely surprises over the years. A new car wrapped up with ribbon and bows. A surprise holiday.
My daughter and family coming to visit when we lived abroad and my OH told me we were picking up someone else from the airport.
But I don’t think the latest surprise ( a few weeks ago) can be topped.
My step daughter is taking us to Hawaii next year. All expenses paid flying business class.

Have never had a lovely surprise but i'ts never too late. Will add this to my Wish List.

I have been lucky over the years, but the evening before my 60th birthday, we were going to the local Indian with DD and GS. DH asked several times if I was going to change (I was wearing white T shirt, jeans and sandals, with light makeup as it was July).

I was sitting waiting for DD to come in from work, she arrived with my best friend and her partner all the way from Australia, for once in my life I was totally speechless.

How they keep the secret I shall never know, they even told my dear Mum just before she died in the April and she kept their secret.

MerylStreep

wowwwwww how fantastic, Hawaii! That is so exciting.

It’s lovely Serendipity. You have a lovely friend as I’m sure you are to her . All the best with the new drug.

I love giving surprises. The feeling that I have cheered someone up is the best feeling.

On holiday with DS and family who had been out for the afternoon, canoeing. They thought I should have a treat too and had made a booking for me to have a flight in a microlight. I was thrilled. I'd never expected that and I so enjoyed soaring over the Ardeche, seeing from above the places we had explored a few days before, conversing with my pilot - me in French, he in a sort of English. I'd have done it again, but the sun was beginning to go down.

I know precisely what you mean tanith. A bitter/sweet experience.

My son and family live abroad. They arrived at my house the day after my best friend died. Their journey was supposed to be a surprise but covid meant otherwise.

We all went out for an early birthday meal ( for me ) and when my cake appeared ( that i didnt expect ) I absolutely sobbed. My emotions were literally all over the place. There before me was my son, my boy and the day previous my best friend died ( she had JUST gone 55 )

Normally I don’t appreciate surprises, but recently I’ve been recovering from a cancer diagnosis and was feeling rather low. DH rallied round as always, but the highlight was when my dear sister arrived unexpectedly. She lives a three hour drive away, so it was lovely to see her. I perked up right away. Some surprises are wonderful!

When I was expecting my daughter over 40 years ago we went out for dinner for OH’s birthday. With us were my sister, whose birthday was the following day and her fiancé whose birthday was the day after that. Obviously there were cards and presents everywhere. I popped to the loo and when I got back to the table, I discovered that OH had left a beautiful silver crib charm on my plate. My sister was so moved she wept.

All these surprises☆☆☆ are wonderful.

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2 days before my 70 birthday I was sunning myself in the garden when my local son in law appeared followed by who I thought was my DD1, his wife. (They should both have been at work). It wasn’t. It was my DD2 all the way from Sydney. SiL had just picked her up from Heathrow. What an amazing surprise and what a birthday present!

I've had some time off work following my mothers death. I'm self employed. One of the agencies that puts work my way has paid me half my usual monthly earnings. No need or any expectation at all from me. Just simple kindness. So lovely

A similar thing for us Marmite when it was my parents in law's 60th wedding anniversary. We were celebrating in a local hotel here in Scotland. My son from England appeared late from the airport - with his brother, all the way from NZ. A total but wonderful surprise. He rather stole the show.
I wish he would do it again PDQ.

?*LauraNorder*. I hadn’t read about your loss.
A big surprise for me was just before Christmas ‘20, DD2 handed DH and me our card which contained a baby scan. We were delighted as she has a lot of health problems after suffering a stroke when she was 12. Sadly DH didn’t live to see her son arrive into the World. He would’ve been so proud.

LauraNorderr

It is lovely to know that friends and family are thinking about us at tough times.
My younger sister died last week and I received a sympathy card from a very lovely gransnetter who I have never met but has become a good friend. It was a nice surprise.
There was an amusing side too as the card was delivered to my new neighbour in error. She assumed it was a birthday card and included a happy birthday card to me when she put it through my letterbox. I daren’t tell her, she’d be mortified.

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How lovely for you, Serendipity22! Such thoughtfulness can give you a real lift.

The best one I can think of, was when dh brought me a lovely bouquet of flowers. I was nonplussed, since it wasn’t my birthday or Valentine’s Day - the only other times (apart from the birth of dd1) that he’s ever brought me flowers.

He explained that it was exactly 50 years to the day since we’d first met.
In the nicest possible way, I was overwhelmed. Although I remembered the occasion very well, I wouldn’t even have been able to say what month it was, let alone the actual day.
(And now I’ve forgotten it again!!)