Okay - the spies are gone- here's what we did.

The receptionist from my kids' school lives across the street from us.

I sent the kids to school and hubby went to work - as usual.

The kids and I arranged for the receptionist to call my hubby at work around lunchtime and tell him that one of the kids was sick - had thrown up in school - and that they couldn't reach me. He left work a bit early and headed to the school to pick our son up.

When he got there, all three kids and myself met him and took him to lunch. We had fun.

The second prank that I was going to pull backfired. I had planned on riding my bike to his work later today and putting it in the back of his truck and driving the truck home without telling him. It didn't work though, he decided to ride his bike back to work after we got done having lunch with him. Next year!!