Celebrating Daddy

Steve recently had a birthday. When I consulted him about what he'd like to do to celebrate this year he told me what he tells me every year: [shrug] "I don't know." I overheard him tell one of his brothers that he might have everyone out for a birthday dinner. I interpreted that as "I'm hoping my wife will throw me a surprise family party." So I got to work planning the surprise, and keeping it a surprise. I went to great effort to plan a reason for him to get out of the house, then he was quite stubborn about going along with my plan. Very stubborn, actually. But things all worked out, all our family arrived, and Steve was in fact surprised. I'm so glad everyone could make it and go along with my scheme!