Hard work is, well....Hard!

I never imagined how much work went into starting a business.  From the first conversation my family had in the car from our trip to Massachusetts in July to now there has been reading, researching, traveling, tasting, more researching, talking, meeting, faxing, planning than I ever thought possible! Joe has been the best business partner I know, as well as a great best friend...we tend to disagree a lot while making decisions but know that in the end we will have made the best decisions through that process for our business to be successful!

If you could see my house right now, you would have an idea we were about to start something BIG.  We have all the recycled chairs, the large spoon (many of you saw during Halloween), boxes of this and that, cash registers, apron material, paper, vinyl and many other necessities needed for our shop that fill up our home!  Now mind you, we will be doing more to our shop inside and out after we open but for right now, we are mostly concerned with getting the best product out there for you!  Decorations and a lighted sign may have to wait a few months.

Some wonder why it is that we are opening in the dead of winter. What better time to teach my family how to make and scoop ice cream? We will have a few months until it gets warm and perfect all our ordering and making of ice cream.  I also am a fan of ice cream year round unlike a lot of ice cream shops in my old home of Massachusetts that were only open from the spring til fall. I never understood the rationale of closing during winter!

We have a lot of flavors and ideas for the coming months and I think we will start with some ice cream pies that you can special order for your Christmas get togethers.  We will pre-make some of these for opening day and think we will have these:

Grasshopper Pie-Graham Cracker Crust, Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream with Whipped Cream and Chocolate sauce drizzle
Coffee Toffee with Caramel Pie-Cookie Crust, Coffee Toffee Ice Cream with Whipped Cream and Caramel drizzle

Wish me and my family luck over the next 3.9 weeks....we are going to learn the words 'hard work'!!

p.s. Madison wanted me to mention her specifically in this blog post..and how much money she can make by WORKING at the shop ;) Love ya Madi!