Talk about a COMPLETE surprise. He even surprised himself! He told me after, "I can't believe I proposed today."

We had just gotten back from breakfast with Jess, a friend of ours. He was on the computer looking for Magic cards, and Jess and I were sitting on the bed talking. I told her she had to see the ring because it was beautiful (I picked it myself, after all). She agreed, so when he got off the computer I told him she wanted to see the ring. He knelt on the floor to get the box out of his drawer, pulled the ring out and started to show her. Then he said, "Well, actually, it'd probably look better this way."

He took the ring off my right ring finger and started to ask. I stopped him. "Honey, that's my right hand," I said.

"OH!" He put the ring back on my right hand, took my left hand and looked at me. "You will, won't you?"

I didn't even have the time to register the shock before I said, "Of course I will!"

He put the ring on the correct ring finger (lol) and Jess all but burst into happy tears. (See, I'm not a happy crier. I've spent the whole afternoon with a silly grin on my face.) She took pictures (I'll post them at the bottom of this update).

We had to leave to get his mom's car and get food to his dad. Told his mom while we were getting the car. Her reaction wasn't the greatest, but it WAS better than I was expecting. She said she wanted him to wait till he was out of school and had a better job. Still, I'd rather hear "Wait" than "Don't."

He told his dad later, no reaction. Well, he WAS at work. I'm sure there will be a reaction later.

Jess told another friend, and I'm nto sure how fast word has travelled with that branch of the vine yet. Nobody's called or texted either of us yet. I have thus far told my best friend, the mom of one of my son's classmates, my son's preschool teacher, and my baby sister Nikki and her friend Sidney.

I was SHOCKED at Nikki's reaction. I was expecting a half-hearted "ok" at best. I told her, "Remember when I told you that I told him not to get me a diamond?"

And she SQUEALED. I showed her the ring ("Oooo, pretty!") and told her the proposal story (after promising her that it wasn't "mushy"). She asked if she and Sidney could tell the youth group at church tonight, since Ritesh and I are telling Mom tonight anyway. I told her she could.

*happyhappyhappyhappyhappy*

Here are the pictures I promised:

The Ring:
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Immediately after he asked:
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