So, I thought it would be fun to let you all know just how Jim proposed to me. I am decided to blog about this because I thought it would be fun to share, but I also have selfish motivations. I know if I don't write it down that one day our kids may ask, "Mommy, how did Daddy propose to you?" I don't want to say, "Hmmmm, you know what honey, that was so long ago Mommy doesn't remember." So without further or do, here is the story.
Let me start by saying that I was sort of expecting it. You see when we only see each other once a month or so and Jim tells me that I should start working on the visa paperwork, I kind of got an idea that the proposal was imminent. Now, if you recall in yesterdays post, I tend to be curious. So the whole week before Jim came down I was asking leading questions and gently reminding him of days I wouldn't be home in case he wanted to call my mom and ask her permission for anything. (which he actually ended up doing by the way)
So, when I picked Jim up at the airport, I was excited to see him and anxious to know what the weekend would bring. He arrived at 8 or so Friday evening and after crossing the border, we immediately went to dinner. We got to the apartment I share with my mother late. We spent some time visiting with her and decided on the next days plans. We decided we would go for an early lunch and spend some time at a local park. We agreed we would sleep in and awake at 9:30. I nicely let Jim have my room, while I slept in the other room.
My mom had to leave in the morning and I awoke shortly after she left and looked at the clock. It was 10 am. I listened for Jim and did not hear him up. I went to see if he had slept in but I noticed the light on. I also noticed an envelope on my door marked "1". I knocked on the door to see if Jim was going to go and get ready for the day. He opened the door halfway. He said he was going to, so I decided to go back and rest for a bit (I was tired, what can I say). I decided not to acknowledge the note because I was unsure whether he was still working on something in the room that had something to do with that note or not.
After he was done getting ready, I woke up and decided to acknowledge the note. I asked him what was on my door. He played dumb suggesting my mom may have left it there. I told him that it was in his handwriting so that was doubtful. I opened the envelope and inside was a note with one word on it "knees". I was confused. I decided to think hard about what "knees" could mean while I got ready. When I was done, I informed Jim I was ready to go. He reminded me I didn't have my cell phone with me. I went to get it, and saw another envelope marked "2". Inside that note was another word: "right". I went into the living room and found a note on my computer and on my purse. They said "pearl" and "mind". I was so confused. I was convinced this was some puzzle I needed to figure out. I started looking for correlations between the words. I couldn't find any. Well any that made sense anyway.
As we got ready to go down to my car I was convinced this was going to lead to the proposal so I asked Jim if he had everything and I was coyly looking to see if I could see a ring anywhere. He informed me he did in fact have everything. We went down to my car and in my car on the front seat was another note. This one said "nails." I was confused as ever.
We headed to Wendy's for lunch and when I went to sit down there was another note that said "hair". Our whole conversation over lunch, I was trying to figure out what these words meant. I had some solutions that were quite silly, but I knew I would never be able to figure it out. The cutest thing was the whole time Jim was saying "It is SO weird that someone is following us around leaving you notes. This is so weird". LOL
After we were done eating Jim informed me that I had to go to the bathroom. I told him that I really didn't have to go. He said he didn't care. That I needed to give him my keys, go to the bathroom and give him about 3 minutes. So off to the bathroom I went, wondering what was going on. I went back to the car after what I thought was long enough and there was another note on my dashboard that said "curl". Jim also had my GPS out. He had programmed it and was holding it so I couldn't see it. He simply told me to follow the directions given by the GPS lady. I did as I was told.
It wasn't long before I realized where we were going. We were headed to the local retreat house that I had brought him to a few months before where he gave me a promise ring. As we arrived at the retreat house, he snuck one more note that read "peck". I noticed as I was getting out of the car he had a medium size black case that he retrieved from underneath the seat of my car.
We proceeded to go and sit on the swing overlooking the lake and as we did, he pulled out the case and told me that he had brought his laptop with him. He opened the computer and reminded me that he had promised me that one day he would make the little jingle he sings to me on skype into a full song. The jingle goes like this: "My Canadian girl, she's the best in the world". Well, he had not only completed the song, but made a PowerPoint with pictures and everything. The song was funny, touching and was all about me. The words that I had been getting throughout the day were words that I had to fill in for the song. So the first fill in went like this "My Canadian girl make me weak in the 'knees'" and it went on. The final lines of the song were "My Canadian girl, she's the center of my life, but will she agree to be my lovely ". He handed me another note that said "wife".
I was so touched. I thought "Wow! This is it!" But, it wasn't. He had more things to say before the actual proposal. He had taken the time to write out a 2.5 page letter to me of all the things he wanted to say to me. He wrote it out so he wouldn't forget any of it. He read it out loud and it was so sweet and touching and of course I cried. At the end of his speech, he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. :)
Afterwards, he told me I could call my mom (but no one else). After staying at the retreat house to pray, we went home and when I got there my mom, sister and her whole family were there. Jim had arranged with my mom to have a dozen red roses there waiting for me and my sister and her husband brought champagne.
After calling a bunch of people, I was told that I had to dress up extra nice for church because afterwards we were going somewhere really nice for dinner. Jim had emailed my sister for help to find a nice place to go to and made reservations a few days before. We went to a wonderful Italian restaurant in Windsor. We capped off the evening with ice cream at the Dairy Freez. Last summer when Jim came down for the weekend for the first time ever, one of the first things we did was go to get ice cream here, so it was fitting.
All the effort Jim put in just reminded me once again about what an amazing guy I am going to have the pleasure of marrying :) I can't imagine a better proposal, or a better man! :)
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