Pleasant Surprise

This morning, Munchkin and I headed off to the library to return her library books.  Unfortunately, she wasn’t able to find any new books to check out, so she was a little bummed.  While we were out, we decided that we would head over to Sam’s Club to see if we could find the gluten free cake mixes that my sister had told me about last night on the phone.  (Since we’re in a different state, I didn’t know if they would have them.)  Munchkin loves carrot cake and one of the mixes was for carrot cake.  I thought it would be a fun afternoon activity.

As soon as I parked the truck, my phone rang.  It was D.  He had just finished with his doctor’s appointment.  I told him that we were at Sam’s.  After he found out that we just got there, he said that he would join us.  (His doctor’s appointment was off base not too far from where we were.)  Munchkin and I headed in to start our shopping and a few minutes later D joined us.

D is extremely busy at work, so we rarely get to see him during the day.  Lately, he’s been getting home late as well, so we haven’t had very much family time.  It was such a fun, pleasant surprise to be able to spend this little bit of time together shopping during the day.  Munchkin was happy as could be that her Daddy was there.  After we finished picking up some groceries, he walked us back to the truck and then he was off, back to work.

While we never did find those cake mixes, we had a very nice trip to Sam’s thanks to Daddy’s unexpected arrival.  So, today I am very grateful for our pleasant surprise.