Please Hold my Head Before It Flies Off

Soooooo much is going on right now that if I stop and thinking about all of it, there is a certain chance my head will pop off and go sailing off without me.

I am going to Romania in a matter of a couple weeks. GAH! It's a slightly panicking, whole exciting and overwhelming thing. I know the moment I set foot on Romanian soil I will panick and wish myself on a flight headed home, but I also know that the next moment I will love it, so I'm not too too worried.

To raise funds for this trip (the further funds we discovered we will need) Sarah and I are hosting Cafe en Romania, a coffee-house night with European flair on Friday, March 22 at 7:00 PM.We are going to run it exactly like a Starbucks, complete with a full menu of drinks for a song, and a raffle for some great items my so-generous friends and family have donated for the purpose. Sarah and I are hard hard at work thinking up ways to transform our sunny, open farmhouse into a cozy coffee-shop on our limited budget. Truth be told, as Sarah and I were huddled upstairs painting and drawing and ripping away at the decor, I flourished my paintbrush, spattering modge-podge over my project and declared:

"LET'S DO ALL THE DECOR WITHOUT SPENDING A DIME!"

Which, considering I literally have nothing but dimes left in my wallet, shouldn't be too hard to resist. :P But seriously. Sarah and I are two creative girls, and we. can. rock. this.

The fruits of a morning's labor are already amazing. Our efforts combined with the donation of several neat things from a friend's home are bringing the coffee-shop idea together. YES. It's working. Now it's up to you all to come. I'm serious. Any of you who live in the area or near the area, you know my email. (psssst: heirloomrosebud@gmail.com) If you'd like to participate in this fund-raising event, just shoot me an email and I will give you full details. The decorations are seriously awesome. I'm not sure that some of you who have a special fondness for coffee might not like to buy some of it off the walls. For real. And we'd be good with that. ;)

Yes, yes I know you were hoping for pictures of what we've done so far, but I want to keep it a magical surprise for all of you who will come. If you are our friends and need a place to stay the night if you come, we have couches and floors and rooms and squish-in-places available! Come one, come all!!

Now for the other part of this post that deals with the larger event in life right now.

My Gentleman got a job.

Daniel got a job with Generation Joshua and he is moving four hours away this Saturday.

As you can imagine, this is a pretty major thing for our family. He has lived with us since the day he was born, and it's gonna be an adjustment. I was reminded by a friend that we have had Daniel with us far longer than most people get their older brothers (he's 22) so I ought to be glad for that. And I am! I really am. And I know the move doesn't mean we won't see him anymore, because he's still gotta come South to go courtin', and I'm planning on frequent roadtrips, and clogging up the Post Office with mail, and clogging up his phone with texts, and doing all the things I've winkled out in my brain for years and had no one to use them on. Oh yes. It's gonna be fun. We have consoled ourselves with the idea that truly, until Daniel is gone for five weeks in a row without coming home once (which I hope won't happen for several years) it won't be any worse than when he and I were in Georgia for a month last year. Still, we miss him, and listening to "Drive Your Truck", "The Ballad of Jody Baxter", and "Come Back Soon"  is not an especially wise thing to do right now for fear of making all of us more sentimental and glum than ever. Thus we have sworn off pretty nearly everything but Broadway and Disney till the deed is done and he's in Purceville and we are accustomed to the idea.

Gon' miss my crazy guy. :'}

Truly. Sarah and Danj and I were driving in the car the other day and listening to Andrew Peterson and the Wistfulness was getting way too big so we turned on the good ol' country station and "Drive Your Truck" came on and affected me like it always does, and we turned into the drive not in a very dry state of eyes.

Really, the hugest emotion I've felt so far over this whole thing is excitement. I mean, this is a big deal. Daniel has a full time job with which he can provide for a family which means....a lot of things. Yep. It's pretty awesome, and I am so ready for him to get up there and learn the ropes and have all the wonderful, fulfilling things I know are in store for him. 

So Daniel and Coffee. Those are the things occupying my brain these days, along with a bit of deep allegorical poetry, historical romance, and Newsies....and when all of those wonderful things come together, life is overwhelming, but good. Very good. In an overwhelming, help-i-think-i'm-drowning kinda way.

Craziness.

:)