Growing up…
For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11
Ok, I know I haven’t been on in 2 weeks. So here is an update from the last 2 weeks.
Last week (July 18-22) I headed up my Church’s Vacation Bible School: Craft class. Now, I love making crafts, I loved the crafts we did this year. The one thing I would change would have been to know the numbers of the kids. We had two more classes to go the first day and I had to run to the store to pick up more supplies. I felt so bad that I did not have enough. At the end of the first day I made sure i had enough supplies for the rest of the week.
The other crafts went very smooth and had enough pieces for all of them 🙂 That was very wonderful!
Overall VBS crafts went very well!
Last week Thursday I made an offer on a house. I had been looking at this house for a few weeks and thought about it a lot over our vacation and before hand. Last week I decided to make an offer. We (my parents and I) drove over so that I could make an offer on the house. Thank you to my amazing grandparents and parents for teaching me to save young and working 7 days a week for the last 3 summers I was able to make an offer on the house. The next day I got an email saying the owners accepted my offer. I was in shock. For one thing I did not expect them to accept the offer so quickly, the other thing is I didn’t think I would have to grow up so fast. I thought I was making a step towards growing up.
My plan with this house (as many of you already know) is to start a bed and breakfast. I did market research and and community research by making contacts throughout the community asking around to gain the knowledge if this is the right choice for this community. All of the contacts (those who work at city hall and business owners in the city limits) say it is a good idea to open another place for people to stay in this city. During the summer population doubles. Winter months it doesn’t quite double but there are visitors.
I really love this community for multiple reasons. One, a WELS church is 2 blocks away from the house. Two, the town is very small, for instance, there are no chickens allowed in the town limits. Now the story of this is because there were people who wanted chickens and those who did not want chickens. Obviously the ones who did not want chickens won the case. Apparently it was quite the discussion 🙂
This town also has a “Hallmark” feel to it. What I mean by this is it feels and looks like a town that you would see featured in a Hallmark movie and it really just make me happy.
The last reason I am excited about starting a business in this town is because the entire business community are very good at helping each other. The support each other and they put on different events to help bust each others business. While talking with business owners in the area I became aware of how powerful a small community can really be and how much they can and will help each other.
That was last weeks big news.
This week I have been so busy. I had the house inspection (went very well, thank you). My mom and I are planning a friend graduation party for my brother for this weekend. I bought a car this morning. Tomorrow I get to go relax and have fun with my mom and hopefully my aunt as well 🙂
Yes, you read and re-read that correct. I bought a car this morning. It is a gray 2010 Chevy Equinox.
This spring has been crazy, but I never imagined how crazy, and how fast I would have to grow up. I am so thankful for all of the love, help and support I am getting from my friends and family. Thank you all of you. You truly mean the world to me 🙂
I am very confident in going into business in this town. I am confident I am doing the right thing this summer hitting the ground running.
I plan to open the bed and breakfast doors in September or October (I will have more definite dates when I can get into the house and set everything up).
God’s blessings to all of you, and goodnight 🙂
P.S.
I thought you all might want to know how frustrated I am. I have on p.j. pants, a sweatshirt and bug spray. The bugs are still biting me. I am very frustrated about all of this at the moment.
