Married with Friends: the chronicles

Toady begins yet another chapter of our lives. As a few family members have coined it, "The honeymoon's over." Adam and I don't look at it that way, merely a change.

Adam's dream of starting his own business with motorcycles, bees, and more has become a reality. For now, he continues to work at Dailey's, with the hope to soon be part time, but the business has taken off. What has helped to make that greatly possible is the addition of a business partner: Sunny Tier. Adam and Sunny have been friends for as long as I can remember. Both grew up in Vermont in family-run businesses. Both aspired to start businesses of similar nature themselves. The result is a combination of businesses, including Motorcycle restoration, Bee keeping and honey sales, and Sign work. Sunny and Adam will be working together, assisting each other in the various ends of the business.

What does that have to do with the honeymoon being over? Nothing. What made it possible for Sunny to come up here from Tennessee and begin this venture is the ability to work closely with Adam, planning, building, growing, and creating a business together. For the time being, that is all happening under our roof. Sunny is living with us during these beginning stages of the business. We just so happened to have a rather private guest room, complete with its own bathroom. Dad fixed the shower valve, so now the bathroom fully functions, though it still needs to be completely renovated at some point.

Today was move-in day. Reminded me of moving into the dorm. That wonderful state of having all of your belonging in the middle of the room, trying to figure out where everything should go. I was truly amazed by the organizing ability of men. I was under the impression that only women enjoyed organizing. Seeing Adam and Sunny work together to find places for things was quite amazing. Now that I know he's capable when motivated, I should enlist Adam next time I go on an organizing spree.

I have a bright outlook on the living situation between the three of us. Sunny's space is downstairs, so if he wants to be away from us, he can. He also plans to spend the first weekend of every month with his parents, which will give us time to be just Adam and I again. I'm sure there will be times when we get on each other's nerves. Thats life. But as long as we're able to respect each other and allow space when needed, it should work out well. More on that as time goes by.