{"id":903,"date":"2009-03-25T14:38:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T22:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=903"},"modified":"2009-03-25T14:38:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T22:38:37","slug":"do-i-still-have-time-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/25\/do-i-still-have-time-for-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I still have time for this?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My sister took me to Alicia’s<\/a> for lunch today. Alicia’s is a quaint cafe with hefty signature sandwiches, fresh baked goods (muffins, cookies, cakes), and a friendly atmosphere run by the owner, Alicia, and her 3 daughters.<\/p>\n

I want to own a place like Alicia’s.<\/p>\n

I know it’s hard work – Alicia said she works 90 hours a week.<\/p>\n

I know more small businesses fail than succeed.<\/p>\n

I know it’s not as fun as it looks.<\/p>\n

But I want to see if I have what it takes to make a successful business. My husband had his chance, and now that my kids are almost all grown, I want to have my chance.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, we made an offer to buy a bagel shop. I had all kinds of ideas for it – summer jazz nights, catering to business lunches, breakfast for special community events.<\/p>\n

But the seller did not accept our offer. In retrospect, I don’t know if I can handle waking up at 4am to get ready for the breakfast crowd. So maybe God spared me from my own folly.<\/p>\n

I still have a dream to own a little business. What I want is a bed-and-breakfast. I’ve been wanting one for a long time. My kids will be on their own, and my husband and I will live in the bed and breakfast. If there are no customers, I’ll enjoy the house. When there are customers, I already have the breakfast menu figured out. There’ll be a homemade baked good of the day, and Bible study and prayer a couple times a week.<\/p>\n

When my husband and I die, if my kids want to run the business, they can have it. But when they sell the house, I will stipulate that the money goes to BIOLA. This is the legacy I want to leave.<\/p>\n

Will I have time to realize this dream? All I need now is merely $2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My sister took me to Alicia’s for lunch today. Alicia’s is a quaint cafe with hefty signature sandwiches, fresh baked goods (muffins, cookies, cakes), and a friendly atmosphere run by the owner, Alicia, and her 3 daughters. I want to own a place like Alicia’s. I know it’s hard work – Alicia said she works […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-thoughts-on-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}