It was the February 15, 2014 and I was still in a little bit of a funk because Valentine's Day had come and gone without a proposal. Imagine, after all my plotting, planning, threatening, and pouting he still didn't cave.   The day was pretty much like any other.  I went to work and come home dreading my weekly chores.  Not long after I got in from work Darren came in and we started chatting about the day's activities and whatever else.  That's when I decided it was time to start cleaning.  I don't know what made me start with the livingroom table but I did and OMG!!  I started removing papers from the table when I saw a big gray box.  I asked Darren what it was and he pretended he did didn't know what I was talking about so I began to open the box.  Inside that box waws a smaller box.  I wasn't even paying attention the the words written on the boxes.  I opened the smaller box and was stunned.

 There it was, a beautiful vintage designed halo diamond wedding ring set.  OMG!!!! I started screaming and just then I turned to look at Darren who was standing in the other room still acting like he had no idea what was going on.  I let out a huge AHHHHHHH!!!!! neverending scream, and then that fool started running from me.  No kidding, he was running and I was chasing him around the house like we were in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

I had to stop and catch my breath a couple of times, but when I did, the chase continued.  I have no idea how long we kept this up.  When he finally let me catch him I couldn't stop squealing and screaming in his ear.  And that's when it happened.  My love, my superman, my future husband told me that he had been hiding the ring for days in the house in places that needed to be cleaned, and if I had just cleaned up the house I would have had my ring days before.

And that's it ladies and gentleman.  That's my storybook romance proposal and I would not have wanted it any other way.