Growing up she was surrounded by laughter, by love and by respect and acceptance. She had a large family although not everyone was related to each other. She had several uncles, three older siblings outside of her own stone mate and a grandfather who meant the world to her. However she knew not everyone had such a warm loving family, not everyone had the peace of mind of a warm home. Even with in her own family she saw days her father and uncles came back with a darker and more burdened expression. So from a young age she knew what she wanted to do with her life. She wanted to bring smiles to people’s faces. She wanted to create a place where everyone just for that moment could feel happy and warm and she wanted to create something that made people feel lighter.
Luckily she was born into such a place. Her grandfather owned a cafe that her father and several of her uncles worked at part time. From a young age she watched the food they cooked and the drinks they made create that atmosphere she had been searching for. So she knew she wanted to do the same thing. She wanted to create the drinks that made people smile. It took a lot of work but she was willing to do it. She couldn’t go out and be the muscle, she wasn’t too good at cooking but making drinks. She wasn’t too bad, plus there was nothing more special to her to stand there in the kitchen with her father or grandfather learning how to create a drink.
Maybe in the future she would change her mind but as long as the special memories remained and as long as her family’s cafe brought smiles to people’s face then she didn’t expect it too.
