Sweetest thing?

[AmberWaves]

Okay, now that we''re on the topic of flowers, let me tell you guys about this: On our one year anniversary, my boyfriend brought me home a beautiful longstemmed red rose (along with a beautiful Bulova watch!) and said that from now on, he''s going to get me a rose on our anniversary for every year we''ve been together. Well, I thought that was so sweet, so I put the rose upside down in our closet, to dry it (dirty habit of mine). Fast forward to November of this year, our two year anniversary, and no rose!! I didn''t say anything until a couple weeks later, and I was being grumpy, still thinking about it. When he asked me what was wrong, I told him that the year before he said he was going to do that and totally forgot. He felt so bad about it. So then a week later, I''m at my dad''s house (it''s 10 minutes away from our place- walking) and the BF is coming to pick me up that night, since I walked our dog there. Well, he has this long stemmed red rose in his hand, but it''s partially broken, and I take it and say, oh, how sweet, wait-what happened to the stem? He explained that he was unaware that my dad (who is undergoing some major construction on the house) had left some huge holes to put the fence posts in, and he fell in a hole, and landed on my

which caused the stem to get a little smashed

. He was so sad about that. I taped it up and put it in the closet with it''s brother. He tried!

 

[anchor31]

Before my SO and I officially became a couple, he invited me to a friend''s wedding. I decided to have a little fun and put a small daisy (my favorite flower) in my hair with a small bunch of tiny purple flowers (I don''t know how they''re called in English... They usually put white ones in every bouquet...). The BMs each carried one single long-stemmed red rose. I mentioned to my now boyfriend that my favorite flowers are red roses and daisies. I never thought back on it again.

On our first anniversary, we go out for dinner and then we drive back to his place. Guess what I found on his bed... A bouquet of daisies with one red rose and those little violet flowers I had in my hair at the wedding! He said he remembered every detail of that day because it was the day he fell in love with me. He is so sweet and he always finds a way to surprise me.

It''s his birthday today

, and it''s the first year since I know him that I can''t celebrate with him...

12 more days and I can see him again!

 

[appletini]

My BF is just sweet all the time, just little things, and I thought of a few...

1. One morning when we had been dating a few months and he had stayed the night, so I was running behind getting ready and had asked him to help me, by making my lunch. Well when I opened my lunchbox at work that day I found a note that said "I love you cuteness! Enoy! _____" I still have it on my bulliten board at work.

2. Last year for my birthday he was in Brazil, but would be coming home two days later, so I didn''t expect anything on my actual b-day, well he sent roses to my office.

3. He calls me every morning on his way to work (I get to work about 1.5-2 hours before he does).

 

[anchor31]

Last January, I moved out of my parents'' house and left for school, and before I left I bugged my mother a lot to try to get her to give me her old cookbook. Her mother got it when she was married, and she gave it to my mom when she got married. It was written during the Second World War and is the most complete and economic cookbook I have ever seen (we call it THE cookbook). However, my mother didn''t want to give it to me.

For Christmas, my dear SO bought me a cookbook. Of course, it''s not THE cookbook, but it''s a revised edition of an old book with very economic recipes.

He is so sweet.

 

[Blue824]

OK, so my bf is definitely not the most romantic or sweetest guy on a day-to-day basis. He will go out of his way to accomodate me and deal with me when I''m being bossy/demanding, but just in terms of surprises or things ''just because,'' he''s sort of oblivious, so when he picks up on a hint or remembers something, it is really sweet.

Last spring I was telling him how much I wanted a new copy of the book Matilda (R.Dahl) because mine had fallen apart since I''d reread it so many times and I read it so many times when I was younger. Not that I couldn''t have bought one myself, but I always had a list of things I needed to get instead. Months and months later we got in a fight. I wasn''t talking to him, so he tracked me down at work and brought me a new Matilda

Its really small, but I thought it was really sweet that he remembered.

 

[roxy7]

Well, the sweetest thing my boyfriend ever really did was how persistent he was in pursuit of me when we first got together. It still amazes me how I can be totally and completely myself, such an imperfect human being, and he still loves me

However, one of the sweetest things that he did for me recently was make me a Roth IRA retirement account. Just out of the blue. He knew I needed one, and I told him I needed his help with one, but we hadn''t really talked about it in months and then he called me up and let me know he made one for me.

Even though it seems like not that romantic to some people (not exactly a champagne and chocolate kind of thing), we are a really practical couple and we''re always planning on the future.

I can''t think of anything sweeter than him worrying about me being financially secure and safe in my older age. It brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it -- he wants me to have money when I am an old lady!!!!!!!!! Now that''s sweet.

 

[blueroses]

*BUMP*

 

[freckles127]

This is such a great thread!! I love celebrating our wonderful sweet bfs and what they do for us. I''m the more practical one out of both of us so whenever he gets flowers or small gifts out of the blue, I always tell him not and its not a necessity. It really does melt my heart though and if he stopped I would miss it.

Sweet things:
1. He buys me flowers for no reason every few months.
2. For every weekend during my birthday month(we both have birthday months), I was treated so well - fancy restaurant the first weekend, flowers, brownies the last weekend. I requested "only brownies" for my present a few days before and wanted him to make them since he''s an amazing cook but he has no time to so he ordered them from Oprah''s favorite things. I mentioned Operah''s list to him but didn''t think he would buy them online!
3. For Xmas, he purchased 2 gift certificates to a spa I like and said one of them was meant for my mom if I didn''t mind taking her... that melted me on the spot.

He treats my mom wonderfully and I am grateful for that. I''ve known him for 8 years and for each year he''s bought my mom food to celebrate certain occasions like New Year and sometimes fruit for no reason. Lucky girl!

 

[Dandi]

What a terrific thread! I think the thing my FH has done that has blown me away the most was the day he asked me to marry him... he is not a very public sort of guy and was planning on a quiet candlelit dinner over which to ask me, very his style. He ended up having a huge photo taken of himself and published on the front of the newspaper on Valentine''s Day, holding up a sign saying "Please Marry Me" and the ring in his other hand... VERY much out of his comfort zone, but he did it because he knew it would knock my socks off, and because he wanted me to always have an awesome proposal story to tell people

Also last year we were at an exhibition in another city, and I was wearing a large pair of thin 12cm diameter gold hoop earrings, one of which fell out of my ear. A passerby accidently stepped on it, putting a small dent in the back of it. It isn''t terribly noticable and I still wear them, but I was really peeved because they were quite new. Well I got home from work a few days later and darling FH presented me with a brand new pair of double row claw set .40ctw huggie diamond hoops, to make me feel better! They are gorgeous and I rarely take them off.

We are a lucky bunch of gals here, that''s for sure!! What a fantastic thread this is!