Monthly Archives: September 2017

We Have A Sign!

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So this past week the crew has completed demo, roughed in the electricity, roughed in the plumbing, cut through the main electrical line to the fire panel for the entire development, and installed our sign. I’m trying to gloss over that cut through the main line and I will hold off on blaming my contractors as the conduit was run IN the cement and not under the cement. We are currently a few days behind schedule, but the GC is feeling pretty confident that we can make up this time along the way. Most important is that the sign has gone up and it’s starting to create some buzz and awareness of what’s going in.

Up next this coming week is for the oven to be installed on Monday and to start framing in the walls. Meanwhile Rebecca and I are working on finding some potential community events to attend to help sample and spread the goodness of Nothing Bundt Cakes as we prepare for our grand opening. Based on the original construction schedule we were targeting 11/11, but to be safe I will estimate 11/18 for now. The stress level is climbing as I continue to learn something new every day, but seeing people’s reaction when they learn what we are opening I get that much more excited.

Construction Starts Today!

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Yesterday the boys and I took a little trip to the store to hang our permits so that the crew can start demo today.  After a whirlwind month of training in Dallas with Rebecca, the next stage begins today.  We have an aggressive 7 week schedule for construction and I’m quite certain it is going to fly by.  Stress is growing at the same pace as the excitement.

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Light The Night 2017

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Today I was asked to write a few lines about Cutler for this year’s Light The Night, as he will be on stage for the introductions, and while writing something down I started to get pretty emotional. I was pretty surprised as I usually file those emotions away, but then I realized that it is 9/11 which is our anniversary of Cutler’s diagnosis. So this post is now two fold, it’s my chance to share my post from several years ago sharing what 9/11 means to us by sharing my post from a few years ago.

https://teamfricke.org/2014/09/11/our-personal-911/

It’s also my chance to ask for your support during our annual fund raising efforts. Unfortunately being focused on training the past three weeks I have not been able to push forth our efforts as I have in the past. Fortunately we have a big head start provided Cutler’s swim team’s efforts raising close to $5000 via the swimathon. Please consider helping us in your efforts. Any size donation counts. Help us eradicate blood cancers and help prevent others from having their own personal 9/11.

http://pages.lightthenight.org/gat/StLouis17/teamcutler

Brother’s Day 2017

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Getting this one in just in the nick of time. Today is the 8 year anniversary of Cutler being diagnosed with AML and rather than wallow in sorrow, many years ago we chose to celebrate this day and name it brothers day. We came up with this when Mason, then four years old, got tired of celebrating Mother’s Day and then Father’s Day and asked us when Brother’s Day was and so the holiday was born. We started our first Brother’s Day with the big celebration of heading to Disney World, but unfortunately as the boys have gotten older and unable to skip school we are forced to lighten the celebration to a hair cut, swim practice, and dinner. Unfortunately this year it was even without me as I wrap up training for the new bakery in Dallas, but that’s alright as it is more the celebration of Mason and Cutler being together.