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foreverempty (original poster member #34426) posted at 3:09 PM on Thursday, July 4th, 2013
To my parents..
They are the reason I'm still alive, what with their administering my medication when I was on the 'edge', making sure I ate and drank, kept constantly reassuring me that it was going to be ok.... They held me up every step of the way, financially as well as emotionally...
Well, had my second pay packet through yesterday and thought it was time to buy them the Christmas and fathers/mothers day present I owe them as they haven't had anything off me for some time as I checked out of everything remotely celebratory and went away on my own at Christmas as I didn't want to participate in the presents and laughter and games.
Today I have fitted their house out with a brand new suite of matched locks on every door and gate, the very best available as lock snapping has become somewhat of a pandemic over here and their house is full of their life memories and all dads techy gizmos!
They are away for the week and have no idea I've done it. The first they will know is when they get back Sunday evening and their key wont work in the door! It won't even go in the hole! 
Dad is literally going to pee his pants!
For 26 years they have had the biggest bunch of keys I've ever seen outside of a museum or local jail!
I've just removed 9 keys from it and replaced it with one!
No more will mum yell at dad because she "can't get the BLOODY patio doors open cause all the keys look the same!"
It's a reassuring sound I'll miss as its echoed around these 4 walls ever since I was 11! 
Can't wait to see their faces...
Me BS: 35
Her WW: 34
D Day 5th December 2011
Current status: Filled for divorce 23rd Jan 2012. Response from WW was not to beg for forgiveness, but deleting me from Facebook.
Threnody ( member #1558) posted at 3:15 PM on Thursday, July 4th, 2013
What a wonderful gift to them! You know they don't expect payback, I'm sure, but this is a thoughtful and unique way of saying thank you to them. Well done!
“If you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
"Great love requires determination." ~ tryingtwo
"Don't try to win over the haters, you're not the jackass whisperer." ~ Brene Brown
nowiknow23 ( member #33226) posted at 3:19 PM on Thursday, July 4th, 2013
I love this, forever! It's clear what a fantastic support they have been for you through all of this. They've been stitched through your posts since the beginning, and they sound like amazing, loving parents.
Can't wait to hear your Dad's reaction.
You can call me NIK
And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
― Sarah McMane
FaithFool ( member #20150) posted at 4:42 PM on Thursday, July 4th, 2013
That is awesome.
DDay: June 15, 2008
Mistakenly married Mr. Superfreak
20 years of OWs, WTF?
Divorced Dec 26, 2011
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget
to sing in the lifeboats". -- Voltaire
newnormal ( member #21925) posted at 6:09 PM on Thursday, July 4th, 2013
Your amazing parents raised a fine young person
BS 43 (me)
FWH 48
D-day 9/07
Dont retreat, reload.
"Pull that knife out of your back - and sever the fuel line to that bus you got thrown under" Bufffalo
foreverempty (original poster member #34426) posted at 12:00 AM on Friday, July 5th, 2013
Thanks ladies.
I know they don't expect anything for what they have done but I really just wanted to give......
I will let you know what they say when they get home Sunday
Best make sure I'm home for them or else instead of being happy they'll be stranded outside in the rain LOL
Me BS: 35
Her WW: 34
D Day 5th December 2011
Current status: Filled for divorce 23rd Jan 2012. Response from WW was not to beg for forgiveness, but deleting me from Facebook.
persevere ( member #31468) posted at 12:05 AM on Friday, July 5th, 2013
What a great post fe!!!
DDay:2011
Status: D 2011
Remarried to a kind and wonderful man - 2017
Above all, be the heroine, not the victim. - Nora Ephron
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K.
wildbananas ( member #10552) posted at 12:06 AM on Friday, July 5th, 2013
I think this is lovely. 
Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light. ~ Yogi Bhajan
Helen of Troy ( member #26419) posted at 12:48 AM on Saturday, July 6th, 2013
Nice! very creative and thoughtful.
foreverempty (original poster member #34426) posted at 10:57 PM on Sunday, July 7th, 2013
Well my expectations of dad "literally peeing his pants" couldn't have been more appropriate!
Lucky I was home as there was me vacuuming in the kitchen as dad ran past the door, then back again to the other. Then he started shouting for me to open the door quick and that he was not joking.......!
Turns out he'd been holding on for the last hour skipping the motorway services so they got home in time to make it to he christening thy were due to go for..... LOL
Bless him. Once he'd finally managed to relieve himself he was very happy indeed.
Took them over the pub tonight and when we got back dad took great pleasure in opening the side door with his key, walking to the back door to let Ebony out in the garden with the same key, then walked across the back of the house and let himself in through the patio doors into the lounge with still the same key.
He's so impressed he's told his mates about it already, who also now want the same as do their neighbors!
He said he was very touched and gave me a big hug x lush
New business opportunity maybe LOL
Just glad they are happy
[This message edited by foreverempty at 12:44 AM, July 8th (Monday)]
Me BS: 35
Her WW: 34
D Day 5th December 2011
Current status: Filled for divorce 23rd Jan 2012. Response from WW was not to beg for forgiveness, but deleting me from Facebook.
nowiknow23 ( member #33226) posted at 1:12 AM on Monday, July 8th, 2013
I've been waiting for this update, forever! So glad it went over so well. Such a lovely, caring thing for you to do for them.
You can call me NIK
And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
― Sarah McMane
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