TRADITION: AM I GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE COOKIE?
I sit and reflect on this new professional season I’ve just entered. If you asked me two years ago if I would leave the corporate world for desserts, flowers and watercolor, instant panic would have kicked in. Internal chaos would ensue and my armpits would have started sweating instantly (a personal tell).
Corporate was comfort, despite the steady stream of stress it produced and the constant feeling of not being good enough. (The paradox of dysfunction as “comfort” is another conversation for another day.)
Two years later, it’s a little after 9 AM and my day is scheduled full of final product touches for our holiday launch–a quick follow on the heels of Thanksgiving orders and Christmas tree farm events. For our first month, we’ve had good success, and still, I wonder if I’m good enough for the cookie.
TRADITION: CHRISTMAS TREES AT BARTELS FARM
Somehow December showed up as quickly as I anticipated it would, and still, I’m surprised by its speed. The day after Thanksgiving, Buck + Bee pulled up with bakery in tow to Bartels Farm for our first Christmas tree-cutting season. We spent the next three days gifting chocolate chip cookies, selling other decadent treats and mostly, watching the JOY this tradition-making experience gave to its participants.
This is the tangible of what we aspire our tagline to achieve: Where Joy + Sweet Meet. This time, though, the manifestation of it happened through an invitation to BEE part of the hard work and family legacy of another local business–a gift of giving in this season of gratitude and reflection.
Buck + Bee and an Ooey Gooey Cookie
“Well, the road rolls out like a welcome mat to a better place than the one we’re at…”
I sat snuggled against my husband in our 1986 red pickup as Chris Stapleton’s voice crooned, wrapping itself around the bench seat, in sync with the shift of the gear stick.
I didn’t know it then, like I do now, but it was foreshadowing of what was to come. I would leave my corporate career at a Fortune 50 company for a mobile bakery gifted to me on my 40th birthday because of two words: I wonder.