Put your hands on the heat

When we first moved to Alexandria, the goal was the get fancy high paying industry jobs and to live closer to family. That we did. Brandon got a job as Sous Chef at Iron Gate and i got a job as Pastry Sous Chef at Buzz Bakeshop. We found a place to rent in the Del Ray neighborhood and hit the pavement, running.

Two weeks later, i quit my job and joined the farmers market. Brandon continued to work his way up at Iron Gate and became the main bread winner. That gave me wiggle room to bond with our two kiddos and take my time to rebuild Rolling Sloane’s in a whole new side of the country. It was slow to start but that helped me decide what kind of menu i wanted to present and exactly which direction i wanted to go.

We rode that wave for a couple years, got pregnant with our third, slowed things down, had a baby and promptly decided it was time to blow things up. Brandon had actually started working for Roses Luxury by then and was getting a little burnt out from crazy, yet typical restaurant hours and losing out on time with the kiddos. Once he finished his paternity leave we decided he needed to be a super dad for a bit and let me grow my business. And that we also did. Over a year later we were rocking a full time cottage bakery where even Brandon was picking up a few shifts, unpaid of course. But this was officially THE FAMILY BUSINESS.