Saturday I posted about meeting with my Angel Sunday. Sunday morning I arrived to open my cafe and find the front door glass smashed and door unlocked. Got burglarized, but fortunately the place wasn't trashed. Register emptied excelpt for pennies, dimes and nickles and back up change cash box gone. No signs of anything else missing. Called the police and started pre-open stuff after cleaning up the broken glass. Then it hit me, no way to make change! Had a few ones & fives in the deposit bag and about $3 in quarters in my rig. After the officer arrived and did his thing and left realizded the $600 I reported stolen wasn't all of it. Friday's and Saturday's cash receipts were in the cash box too. Called today to amend the report. Thought I had a very bare bones insurance policy figuring I was simply out well over a grand. Ouch.

Later Sunday met with my Angel at noon at my existing just burglarized Paradise Cafe. Then we drove over to the Roastery and Coffeehouse build-out in progress. She was impressed. In part how I didn't let being robbed get me down. Papers signed and check in hand.

Beth (my Angel) went home and I returned to Paradise Cafe, which turned out to have a good solid day at the register. Even had enough change with what came in to not have to give customers bizarre change.

Emotional roller coaster of a day to be sure. What lesson was to be learned? For one thing for sure I needed to tighten up my cash handling procedures! Especially moving forward with multiple locations. Done. To be trusting is one thing, to be foolishly careless and or lax is another. The sad reality is there are those who listen to the voice of evil over good, negative force instead of positive, Yin and Yang, whatever you want to call it it's real.

And today is another day. While I thought I had a bare bones insurance policy after calling my agent come to find out quite the contrary, have a fairly comprehensive policy including up to $5k on premises cash theft with relatively low $250 deductible! The only thing not covered was the broken glass.

And then this evening find a score on Craigslist I've been watching to find for months. 4ft wide refridgerated deli case in good working condition for a cool $300.

Life is indeed a bed roses. It's all in how you deal with the thorns. And always give thanks where thanks is due, the Man upstairs. As the old saying goes the good Lord giveth, and the good Lord taketh away. Tests and trials are a part of life, a part of growing, which never stops.