Christmas Holiday and a new Business.

Anyone who has opened their own business knows it takes a tremendous amount of effort.  This is usually performed by the business owner and his family.  Sometimes this "labor of love" can be very consuming and sacrifices are made.  These sacrifices are usually time spent doing anything else, financial sacrifices and sometimes cheerful and happy mood sacrifices...  But for the most part, when that opening day comes, you can just sit back, relax and enjoy the fruits of all your labors...  Nawwwww.  Now the real work begins.  More sacrifices, financial, time, and sometimes, the happy cheerful moods...

This year as we opened our business in Spring Lake, NC- we had the Christmas Holidays fast approaching.  We opened with a bang, and expected a slow down as regular commuters, service members at FT Bragg and other business hours adjusted for the holiday season.  Well, we underestimated that everyone would still want to stop in for coffee, a latte or a chai on their way shopping.  While we are very grateful for this and love to give everyone who comes in a little "holiday in a cup" we realized that once again we, as a family, would be sacrificing a bit for the business.  So we found ourselves, December 25th, at the shop in our Christmas pajamas. (We ran a special, everyone who shows up in Christmas Jammies got 25% off- it worked great).  We brought with us a few board games, we played an epic game of Risk, and we took breaks, a lot of breaks, to serve coffee to those who came by to see us.  A new business can be demanding, the holidays can be demanding, but this year I wouldn't have traded Christmas at the shop for anything.  Happy Holidays everyone!