It Started in the Night

It was a quiet cool Miami night in October 2020. The house was peaceful. The kids, my husband, Anthony, and our Labradoodle, Brownie-Bell, were deep in slumber. Yet, my mind was restless. I kept oscillating between positive and negative thoughts. I rolled over to jot notes in my night-stand journal. Just get it out of my head, I figured. But, it wasn’t enough.

Eventually, I quietly rolled out of bed and whisked the journal to the home office. Click went the lamp. I skimmed the scribbled notes on my journal in the dim lamp light. Suddenly, I felt prompted to turn the mental battle of our thoughts into a card game and board game. After two hours of feverishly writing more notes, I finally felt the release to go back to bed.

In the morning, I shared with Anthony what happened. “I think God wants me to make a card game,” I excitedly (yet sheepishly) shared. He thought I was crazy,“God wants you to do what?!” But, after explaining the idea further, he agreed, “I think you’ve actually got something here!” Then, within 24 hours, we created the first draft of what is now Ferret Flush®.