Friday was the surrogate's birthday - and we weren't sure what to do about it. Of course we were going to acknowledge it, but we weren't sure about the gift thing. On the one hand, we wanted to send her something, because - well it is a pretty amazing thing she is doing - but on the other hand, we're still a bit concerned about the whole 'I'll be your nanny' comment. We are walking this fine line between being friendly and calling, etc and keeping things a business transaction.

We decided flowers would be a good gift - shows we were thinking about her, but nothing too crazy. Mike placed the order Thursday afternoon for a Friday delivery. We asked that a tag/notice be left if she wasn't home - she works like most of us and we didn't expect her to be home when they tried.

Friday comes and I exchanged a few text messages with her, not mentioning the flowers. When I walked into the house around 7 pm., Mike is seething. At first I figured I did something wrong - yes I am the slightly paranoid type. But I find out the florist and AT&T are the cause of his wraith. The florist in California, - the one who was supposed to create and deliver the arrangement we ordered from the national service - called and said, She wasn't home and we did NOT leave a tag and did we want them to try again.

Now here is where things get murky. Mike got more than a bit annoyed and suddenly his call was 'dropped.' The florist used a blocked number - which makes sense because they were the local agent of the large national company. The Nat'l company wouldn't want us to get the local number because then we would cut out the middle man. Problem was the local folks never called back. So Mike called the Nat'l company. After a few choice words about the intelligence of the local florist, this call gets 'dropped.' Well these folks can't hang up and pretend it was a dropped call and never speak to us, we called back.

After a lengthy conversation, the Nat'l folks get a hold of the local florist and tell them to attempt delivery again. Mike also is very clear that if they can't deliver, leave a tag. Saturday morning we got an email saying they could not make delivery and per our request they did not leave a notice.

After calling back, they agree to try again to deliver. We knew from our text messages with the surrogate that she was going to be home in the morning so we asked they try in the morning. Sure thing they tell us, and for your trouble they'll refund half the service fee - we asked for it all back but they offered us half.

This morning we got up and no email telling us they did or did not make delivery. SO we call back again - they can't tell if a note was left but delivery was not made. They could try Monday. F NO!. Just give us our money back, thank you.

When we spoke to the surrogate today, we found out a) she was home in the morning but no one came by and b ) no one ever sent her flowers before.

We are tempted to try again with a new service but the issue is still she works during the day and there is no one there to accept - we are buying her a gift card instead. Sucks that the florist screwed up - it would have been really nice to have surprised her with the flowers. Even if they had left the note, she would have known we sent them and she could have picked them up on Saturday.

Like the title says, we had the best intentions.

The ultra sound is set for Wednesday the 9th - there was some confusion in the last entry as some people thought it was the 2nd. Hopefully we will know if there are two or one, but we can't be sure. Might need to wait for the 23rd to know for sure. Oh yeah, she is saying she thinks it's twins, because she is gaining wait faster than her first pregnancy. I thought at 7 weeks it wouldn't affect your weight, but what the hell do I know right?

It's gonna be a long week until Wednesday.

Andy