Through the years – 2019

2019

It was time to hire an army. The orders coming in were too much for Shannon, an assistant and children to handle. We were still doing 3 am bedtimes and getting up at 6 am to take kids to school. The store was getting busier, and we had to  make mums and mum supplies, then stop and to man the store when customers came in, answer up to 40 phone calls per day, and race to meet the UPS truck who pulled in promptly at 4 every day.

Reeve, the owner’s son (and inventory specialist ) was leaving for college and we were going to be a man down. We started combing through our large extended family to see, “who wants to make a mum”. Thankfully my sister-in-law Silvia stepped up and we were able to hire her girls as well. Shannon’s mom, Terry, would drop everything from August to October to drive from Florida to Texas to help keep the domestic side going as now we couldn’t even break to pick up the kids from school.