Here’s the story, according to Grace:
Flip and I had gone ring shopping, so I knew the ring was coming but I didn’t know any of the details or what Flip had in mind.
As you may have noticed, Flip has a touch of the outlandish and crazy so I really was more concerned that he’d do something outlandish and crazy for my ring and the proposal so we talked about the parameters but I didn’t want to stifle his creativity either.
Now Flip had downloaded the Blue Nile app which sells rings and jewelry online. This meant that the sky was the limit and he was constantly designing crazy rings in the app and showing them to me. Apparently in all that craziness, he showed me the actual ring that he proposed to me.
(To this day, I don’t remember picking the ring -- there were so many I didn’t remember that exact ring!)
Now the other thing you have to know before I tell you the actual story is that Flip is not a morning person. So usually I get up in the morning before Flip and try to get him moving so we can eat breakfast.
So it’s Friday morning, my off day from work and Flip is wide awake at 8:30 in the morning.
I am shocked.
Then he gets out of bed and puts on his regular clothes. This is confusing also since Flip works from home so often I leave to go to work and he’s barely dressed and he’s still looking the same when I come home. Naturally, I had to inquire as to why he is awake, dressed and ready for breakfast before me and way before noon.
“Remember how I told you the backup for our computer is failing – the FedEx guy is coming today with new hard drives so I need to be dressed when he gets here.”
So I say to him that you don’t have to have real clothes on to greet the FedEx guy and that he could just do what I do, which is wait until he leaves and then, in my pajamas, dash outside to pick up the package.
Flip insists -- all the while claiming the replacement hard drives are too expensive and so he has to sign for it.
So I let it go and we go downstairs to eat breakfast. Then the doorbell rings and it’s the FedEx guy, and I hear Flip go outside and then bounce back inside and run upstairs.
At this point, I think it’s the new backup drives for our computers and I wouldn’t see him again until lunch time, so I settle into watch some motorcycle racing and get caught up on my sports.
Only Flip comes right back downstairs and starts snuggling up to me on the couch.
I am now annoyed. I am busy. I’m watching my race – what do you want?!!??!
And that’s when Flip got down on his knee and proposed to me in our living room – me still in my pajamas and him being sweet and loving, I think I asked if I should have showered first before I said yes. :-)
He knew that I didn’t want any pomp or spectacle but something that was just a moment for the two of us to share together. Which we did and despite what he thinks, it was perfect.