The coming new year

This time of the year I start to look back and remember what has gone on in our lives and see if there were some things I would do different.  This year has been the biggest one since Curtis and I were married.  Our lives have changed drastically.  We went from living in the mountains, having chickens, cats, dogs and seeing deer everyday to the flat lands of Oklahoma where dust, cotton, wheat and cows are the main things to see.  The life we had in February of 2010 was going to work, coming home gathering eggs and making sure that all of our animals were warm, and trying to get over the stress of our jobs that was killing us.  Now, well things are different, and I have yet to decide that if the stress level is better or worse.  Our main struggle now, is getting The Dairy Freeze up and going.  It certainly has taken much longer than we thought and sooo much more money than we thought too.  We should in the next week see a big improvement on the place.  So by January 3rd we should open or be a day or two away from opening.  THEN we will see if we have made the right decision.  Would I do it all over again? Hmm well the verdect is out on that...but I know for sure that if we had known how much work and having to buy new or almost new equipment maybe we would have thought about it a little more.  But...here we are and we will make the best out of it.  What is the saying...if God gives you lemons, make lemonade?  I hope ours is sweet! :o)

This year has been long in a way, since April when we found out we were moving to Alabama, I had surgery in May, moved in June and then moved again in August, then losing our Puddy Cat in November.  I can safely say this has been by far the most intresting year I think I have ever had.  But one thing I can say, and I don't think there are many couples that can say this, but not one time have we had any cross words about anything during this whole thing.  Sure, there were times that I thought Curtis had lost his mind (I was not alone in this thought) with ALL the tile and how it all had to be straight and just right.  But in the end, ALL of that tile has been a good thing, it will be easier to clean and just easier to maintain.  I will say this, that I do think we have lost our mind by doing this, I mean what saine people are going to quit their jobs in THIS economy to open a resturant?  Really...who would do this?  Who would go from having steady income to NO income for 6 months or better?  Crazy people that is who...but if I had to be crazy I am glad I have Curtis there to be crazy with me.  We will soon be married 11 years, yesterday December 19, 1999 is when Curtis asked me out, that is a day I will never forget and I am so very thankful he did, to think that if he hadn't had asked me out where in the world would I be and what would I be doing?  I know exactly what I would be doing and where I would be, I would have turned into an old bitter person thinking life had passed her by and how unfair it all was.  But, instead I have had the time of my life moving all over the country and visiting many many cities to now, trying our hand at owning a small resturant in a small Oklahoma town. 

So, come join us in a few weeks down at The Dairy Freeze where good people and good food meet!