Awwww...RTR, that's very touching. Congrats on having such a great family.
Actually, my wife did something similar for me. I had planned for weeks to go to the air show in Galveston this past weekend. But I had promised wifey that I'd finish the bathroom renovation as quickly as possible. This is a project that I told her I'd do years ago, but finally started about 5 weeks ago. Now, I work slow (er i mean methodically). As I said, I've been "renovating" this bathroom now for a good 5 weeks. It was my own fault, really. I coulda finished it up a couple weeks ago, but I let other less important things get in the way. And if I didn't finish this weekend it woulda been God-knows-how-long before I finished it. So, I said nothing, just knuckled down and got 'er done.
She knew how badly I wanted to go to Galveston. So, to make it up to me, Saturday night....well, being the gentleman I am, all I'll say is I'm glad I finished the project;)