Short cuts!

Thursday night is a special TV time for us – The Big Break Legacy is a reality show where 12 entrepreneurs are tested in a variety of entrepreneurial activities, with one person being voted off the show each week. Tonight we’re down to the final 2 contestants and its been an exciting ride! Its been inspiring! Ryan and Jed, especially, love the show and find it very inspiring!

Yesterday the 3 boys all had haircuts. I started with Ethan just after 7am (after I’d put on a load of washing and made Dieter a cup of tea) and after breakfast Jed was the next one in the barber seat. Jed’s hair is accidentally much shorter than generally suits him, I cut it a bit too short on the left-hand side and we decided to rectify it by cutting it all much shorter, using a clipper all round. I left the top slightly longer, but think we need to cut it all the same length (maybe a project for tomorrow?). Ryan then decided that he is finally ready for shorter hair, so we gave his hair a good cut and I must say, I think it suits him so nicely! Unfortunately, old habits die hard (its too short to flick all the time!) and he still tries to comb it into his old style which looks really funny!

Today has been another big day for us as we finalised our packaging for our new Kiddies food business. I’ve put a lot of work into marketing ideas and finalising the menu of the meals we’re going to begin with and its getting exciting! Ryan and Jed are excited that this one idea is going to become a reality, after all the many, many ideas we’ve come up with together over the years that we’ve just filed away each time. This is real and its happening!

Last night we chatted with our new homegroup leader, who was able to fill us in on possibilities for a product label. I couldn’t sleep when I got into bed last night because I was sooooo excited at how things are falling into place. Its not easy to be doing something like this in a town we don’t know and not knowing where to begin to search for various resources. But God is sending all the right people at the right time to give little bits of information that are incredibly helpful! Thank you Lord!

So the next step in my action plan is to write a complete list of all the groceries we need to buy to start cooking. Early next week I plan to start freezing the first meals. Then I can work out detailed costing per meal and (once I can figure out what the right mark-up is!) come up with a selling price! Fortunately our layout to begin with is very small (in comparison with some of the previous business ideas we’ve had!) and a hand blender, a digital kitchen scale and a chest freezer are the only ‘big’ purchases we need to make to get started! This time next week, the freezer should be filling up with healthy, nutritious, exciting meals for babies and toddlers!

I’m overwhelmed right now with how big this could possibly become – but hey, isn’t that what dreaming is all about? About taking that leap in faith and looking forward to great things? Watch this space!