Yes! We bought a coffee farm! Where? In Hawaii? What? You are quitting your job and moving to Hawaii to farm coffee??? Crissy, come on, you don't even drink coffee! Yup.....I know crazy. It all started way back in 2000 when my in-laws, Jim and Sandy Nolen took us on a wonderful family vacation to Kauai, HI. We feel in love with that island and returned 2 more times-2005, and 2010. During the 2010 trip my husband and I started talking that we need to make living on the islands a reality.
Over the next few years we continued to talk about and play around with the idea more seriously. Our youngest daughter, Chelsea graduated from high school and fulfilled her dream of going to the university of Hawaii to study Marine Biology (yes, she fell in love way back in 2000 when she was only 4 years old). So, with her move set to Oahu, we started talking even more and looking into how to make this a reality. My husband started by looking at properties on multiple islands. He sent me various links to many different ones. Then I got an email with "holy crap, never mind look at this one!" in the subject line. Sure enough, I agreed with the holy crap comment and could not believe what I was seeing. It was on the Big Island (did I mention we had never been to that island?) and perfect.
Long story short.....the property looked beautiful, the house looked perfect and with a built in business and income! I mean really.....how hard can it be to farm and process coffee? So we talked to our children-our son Jimmy, his wife Amanda, and their two children said they would move with us and help run the farm! So we made this dream a reality and here we are! Our daughter Chelsea is now only a short flight away, with in-state tuition coming soon! And our other daughter Courtney will hopefully be coming over soon as well. We said goodbye to our wonderful friends and family in AZ who I miss terribly, and did it!
My hubby only stayed for two weeks, and had to go back to AZ to continue to get the pets ready for the trip and to work. He should be here officially in May. My wonderful mother-in-law, Sandy is here so I would not be alone until Jimmy, Amanda, the first group of pets (their two cats) and my grand babies arrive (which is today-how would you like to be on that airplane? ) Yippee!!!
Me and Sandy have been working hard getting the house ready and doing some clean up of the farm, as well as fertilizing the coffee plants. I have sweated a lot, and have literally worked my ass off (15 lbs of it!) this first month and love it all!
This first blog is dedicated entirely to the move and the craziness of moving 4 adults, two very young children, 4 cats, two dogs, and way too much stuff (even though I felt like I purged a lot of my stuff-nope I still have way too much!)
As this blog progresses I will be adding details of the farm,the coffee process and all the adventures that go along with living on the Big Island!
Disclaimer-please do not judge my writing! I am not a writer, nor profess to be clever or witty enough to publish an awesome blog. I will do my best with editing (which means reading it once before publishing) and will try and bring this awesome adventure to life with pictures and text to all that read it!
Aloha,
Crissy
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