note and a gift left on the kitchen table for steve
Note:
My dearest Steve,
Everyday I have with you here, I treasure more than the last. No matter what we've been through both separately and together, I know that I'll love you for you all the way through. It sounds a bit trite, maybe, but then you spill something down the couch cushions and I want to rip your head off for treading mud on my carpet. Sorry if I'm a horrid woman to you some days, my love.
Anyway. I have some presents for you. Open these ones here and I'll leave one more as a surprise after we come back from Arlington. I'll be home with breakfast at 9am, I have to run a quick errand for a sick friend but I'll be back.
I love you, my darling. Happy Birthday. Peggy xxx
Gifts:
Basically a box of art supplies: sketchbooks, charcoals, watercolour paints etc
A digital camera with a note attached that says "I don't know how to work this yet. I'll bribe Tony with some brownies and he'll come to your aid."
A box of homemade shortbread cookies
And a very special gift with another note inside the box. "These were my grandfather's. Keep them well." Inside are a pocket watch and matching cuffinks in a velvet box