Welcome to Homes With Lacey – THE BLOG!
I am excited to add another element to my business and a more personal way for me to share my world with you and also bring you interesting and fun ideas, thoughts, current real estate info and even some of my favorite things and places.
So on that note I thought I would start it off with “a little about me” post….
What am I really like? Well, to be honest, friends usually poke fun at me about having two personalities. They like to put me into two categories. There’s business Lace, and then there’s friendship Lace. When good friends call they often preface the conversation with “Hi, is friendship Lace available?” Just so they can help me with the transition. How thoughtful! I prefer to put it a bit differently. I’m business up front but a party at the back. So basically, I’m like a good ol’ mullet.
So although I’m a business girl, I am in no way a city girl. My heart longs for the country, pure and simple. My husband and I would LOVE – like really LOVE – to live on acreage one day. That’s where I grew up, so, that most likely has something to do with the itch I get to get out of the city and into a field where I can sit in silence and listen to the bird’s chirp. Ah… what a beautiful thought.
The city has a lot to offer, I will give it that, but I still prefer the country. I dream of a place where I can build a little barn and have some chickens and a couple sheep one day. Maybe even a cow. I think I would name it T-Bone or maybe even Meatloaf. It’s a tough call.
I have always been entrepreneurial. I started an egg business when I was 13 and had a regular egg route similar to a paper route. Of course I didn’t deliver them by way of throwing them at top speed at the nice man on the front porch in his housecoat, like in the movies; instead, I hand delivered them (about 35 dozen) door to door. I collected my $2.50 and went on my merry way.
I will admit my never ending search for business possibilities has gotten my busted once or twice. Growing up we lived on acreage and our water source was a well. My family would bring their jugs to come and fill them up with water (instead of buying water at the store) and my natural instinct was to start charging people for water. I knew I already had a market…even if it was my own relatives!!! I guess dad thought I was going a bit too far and before I could set up business at the end of the drive he busted me and pulled the hose out of my hands. I guess charging my grandma $1/jug was going a bit too far. *shrug*
So, that’s me in a nutshell. Well there’s a lot more. I’m a woman,.of COURSE there’s more! But that’s all for now.
Lacey Forward
