How We Celebrated Ourselves

Dear John,

 

I lived through another Friday. I was in the drive-up with Margaret, which is always good. I enjoy working with her, we make a good team, and she knows the drive-up very well. It was a busy and good day.

 

We celebrated ourselves today. We had pizza brought in for birthdays - mine, Connie's, Charley's, and I think somebody else. Our year-end bonuses arrived today. And Mark brought a cake with the bank emblem and congratulatory things on it. Our branch has had a terrific year, beating our goals by a good bit. So today we celebrated. It was good.

 

I know what I'm going to do with my bonus money, but I'm not going to tell you yet. I want it to be a surprise. But I know you're going to love it, and it might even make you cry a bit.

 

So go to sleep tonight thinking about that! Don't bother to try to guess what the surprise is. You'll never get it in a million years. So wait and wonder! It will be my Christmas present to both of us.

 

Glad I can still surprise you after all these years,

Joan.