I should explain that we started to document our adventure into "cookieland" a couple of months later than the time we actually began our journey. So far down the road, we have almost picked a name for the website we will mainly sell our cookies through; nearly settled on a possible package construction and design; found a web designer who seems to understand what we are trying to do; had many seriously pointless discussions with ad agencies who keep on doing everything they can to convince us that we need them and should pay them high fees for things we can do ourselves; thought about where to begin baking the cookies; considered what steps we may have to take very quickly... just in case our cookies are successful faster than we anticipate; and baked and tested many hundreds of cookies until finally coming to the "oh so good" way of making them. These cookies really are good... like no cookie anyone has eaten before.

All of this seems to be a lot of work, and as anyone who has started a new business knows, it has been a lot of work, mostly fun work, and at times also fearful and nerve wracking moments. A lot of hours spent thinking, dreaming, planning, seeing, calling, talking, learning the proper rules and regulations of doing business in Germany, reviewing everything, and re-doing many things.

Now, the hard parts are starting to begin. We have to make money and career choices that are likely to greatly affect our lives and family, now and in the future. You see, we are both professionals with high educations and rather good incomes, with an idea in our heads that is taking us in a completely different direction- To creat Europe's first "Cookie Democracy", for money.