Well, my last entry was 2 years ago. Is anyone even going to read this? Who knows. Oh well.

So I'm the mother of a 2-year old. She's absolutely adorable, and one of the chattiest kids I've ever known. Of course, w/me as a mom, there were good odds. I've actually been reprimanded in school and at work for too much chit-chat.

So, speaking of work, my primary job for the last two years has been as a mom. I've had a part-time job for a year and a half (working 7-10 hours a week). But soon (I hope!) I'll have something new.

I'm opening a coffeehouse! I never thought I'd do that. But I am. I have this friend, Shawna, who is a stay-at-home-mom to two kids, ages 3-1/2 and 6. She and I have become friends over the last two years, and about 7 months ago we started talking about opening a coffeehouse together. About a month and a half ago we finished our business plan. About a month ago we got our logo (professionally designed, I might add), and in the last 2 weeks we've been working on getting our loans and our location.

Is this really happening? Well, maybe. My husband is a little hesitant to allow the bank to put a lien on our house for the loan. Shawna's husband was, too, but she managed to convince him. So now it's my turn to convince my husband. We had a talk about it the other night, and I asked him to think about it. Well, he's been thinking for 2 days now, and he's leaving for Wisconsin in the morning. I'm so nervous to ask him about it. But I don't want to talk about it on the phone, and I also don't want to wait till Sunday, when he gets back. So I guess tonight's the night. If he says "no", the whole thing is done. The only way we can get a loan is to put up our houses. All of my efforts (and I mean literally hundreds of hours of work) will have been for nothing. But I think I did an adequate job of convincing him it was a risk worth taking. Of course, the possibility of the coffeehouse not being as successful as my financial projections have said it will be makes me sick to my stomach. The thought of us being responsible for $35,000 in loans (that's my half) - with no way of paying it back if the coffeehouse fails - makes me really ill. I'm sure it makes my husband just as ill, if not moreso, since he's the "breadwinner" of the family.

If he says "yes" - and I SO hope he will - we will be applying for loans in the next few days. And then it will all be real. Craziness.

Oh, and did I mention we're talking about trying to conceive in July? So I'm going to be pregnant (hopefully) and starting a business. How nuts is that? But I've always been good at multitasking. :)

 

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