knitwit: chad's picnic

for weeks i had been trying to think of something special that i could do for chad; but was having the hardest time! we are barely ever home and when i'm home he usually is too. so, it leaves little opportunity for keeping secrets or preparing surprises. but, both of us recently had pretty drastic schedule changes and it just so happens that we have opposite days of. i have thursday and he has wednesday. it kinda sucks; but in the long run i think it gives us both time to chill out on our own and to have time to scheme little extras for one another. i hadn't done anything special for him in quite a while so i decided to surprise him with a dinner picnic. he gets off work at 7 and i wanted to be there in the grassy field waiting for him with blanket and meal displayed. i prepared an asian type meal of beef and broccoli with vegetable fried noodles. when i got to the field it ended up being pretty chilly and there was a family of 4 kids who were completely in love with claire. i left a note on his bike directing him to me and when he showed up the kids were all over trying to cuddle claire. turns out he was chilled to the bone from sitting inside an overly air conditioned building all day and it didn't help that it was super nippy outside. he obviously wasn't in the mood to picnic:( still, he obliged and we ate dinner, bless his heart. in the end the whole shebang was kind of a bust; but my main point was received-that i really appreciate him.