THE CAT is OUT of THE BAG

Sunday, April 17, 2011 Yesterday Corey called and asked if I had the van. (Jim and I are forever switching cars.) I said I did and he asked if I would meet them (Corey, Jayden and Bailey) at Home Depot. He said he was going to make a new bed frame for Stacey for their anniversary which is coming up this Friday. Corey looked up the plans for the bed on the Internet. He made a paper list but also looked it up on the Internet on my new fancy phone. We bought everything he needed to start the project and came to our house and started cutting and sanding etc in our garage. Jayden took over the job of sanding and did a really good job of it and went on for hours without complaint. He helped with the drilling and screwing with the power drill too. We worked pretty late last night without eating and by the time we quite I was quite shaky. Corey made the kids vow not to tell Stacey anything. Jayden and Corey came over again early this afternoon and worked on it again. Stacey kept calling wondering where they were and what they were doing. The last I heard, it sounded like they felt they might have to tell her that they were doing something for their anniversary but not say what it is. Monday, 18 April, 2011 At around noon, Stacey sent me a text message asking me to "take a picture of the bed Corey is working on in your garage and send it to Corey's or my phone." I assumed at that point Corey or one of the kids gave in and told her. I texted her back and said, (not lying) "I can't, I haven't figured out how to do it on my new phone yet." She immediately texted me back saying, "That's OK. You just confirmed my suspicions." She and Corey were at lunch together before she started her shift. I can't remember if it was Sunday night or what, but, Stacey was lying in bed and Jayden and Bailey were lying with her. Corey was downstairs working on the computer when suddenly it hit her. (He had shown her the bed on the Internet a couple of weeks before.) She bolted up into a sitting position and half shouted, "He's making me a bed isn't he?" The kids panicked. Stacey started to get out of bed to confront Corey. Bailey whispered to Jayden in a voice loud enough that Stacey could hear, "The bird is out of the cage!" (?) Jayden jumped on top of Stacey so she couldn't get out of bed and Bailey ran downstairs to tell Corey the news.