Where's the Beef's?

Glad you asked...it's at 1812 Carondelet, Suite 101...and better yet, it opens MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th!!!
For those of you who have no clue what I'm talking about - approximately 21 months ago (I'm referring to it like it's a child...but it kind of is) Lee and started the groundwork for opening a restaurant called Beef'O'Brady's. Finally, nearly 2 years later, we are anticipating the grand opening!
For those of you who have been on this journey with us the whole time, you are probably thinking to yourself, "it's about time!!!" Trust me, we share that thought with you.
It's been a long and tedious process, but our staff started training this week, they are doing a test run today/tonight on community friends of ours (and of our partners, the MacGillivray's) and then Monday - we open the doors "for real". Last night we did a mock run with just the employees and their families - they took turns waiting on/cooking for each other - and it went really well. The food is phenomenal! Our employees are awesome - we're tickled with our "draft picks"! Lee and I came home excited, exhilerated and dead tired:-)
Lee's been at that store 15 hours a day for the last month and between my full-time job and helping him, I've easily kept up with his strenuous work hours. We're exhausted. Thursday, I started getting sick - swollen throat, ear aches, stuffy nose...the works. Yesterday, I barely had a voice left...and today, I'm down to nothing. I can barely whisper. Put me with no voice in a room full of 100 of my closest friends and watch me suffer thru the torture of not being able to communicate!
Nicolas has taken the brunt of all the hours we're putting in, as he gets tossed back and forth between friends and family who are volunteering to help take care of him (thank God for great friends and an awesome family!!!) We're just praying that in the end, it all pays off. We know anything worthwhile takes hard work. And truthfully, we're doing this so we can be more flexible and have more time to spend with him, not less.
For those of you wondering, I have no intentions of quitting my job at the church right now. I'll simply be doing all of the accounting for Beef's and possibly hang out there a night or two each week so Lee can leave. If Beef's turns into something I should be doing full-time, I trust that God will lead me to that decision.
With that, I'd better get busy...huge day ahead of me.
See you at Beef's!