Life’s been too busy for me to keep up with Substack but I have made time to read your posts ☺️ thank you for sharing your story. It has been very encouraging.
I loved hearing this! What a gift you you’ve given to your community. What sacrifice and tangible love. We have a mutual dear labor and delivery nurse friend ❤️❤️❤️ Next time I’m home visiting my dad I’m coming to see you at The Chalet Deli!
Tresta, we're about to dive headlong into yet another new thing (more coming soon), and I am so glad to read your stories. I have camera roll catalogues too. The times I don't remember except for by the odd screenshots and photos that I took to send to my husband. It's good to read someone else's story of survival. The small business life is brutal, but also beautiful. And yea, every time I think about what I pay for something now, I'm envisioning all the overhead behind it. You just don't know what you don't know, until you do.
Loved this. This almost reads like the chronicles of the newborn experience. Apparently opening a small business and having a new baby have many exhausting similarities. :’)
oh my goodness this is so beautiful and exhausting, motivating and eye-glazing. my hat's off to you and those who've come around you. i only wish that i didn't live on the east coast because i'd be in for some cinnamon rolls ...
Finally got to read this, and I'm so grateful for it. The part that really struck me was you making coffee for your friend on the first morning - I don't know if this was the headspace of it for you, but it made me think about undertaking something so huge from the simple, straightforward, loving posture of making a single cup of coffee for a friend. What a way to start!
Oh man.... I'm crying. Again. Oh the gracious goodness of God... how I wish we were planning a road trip your way--soon! soon!
(and you and Shawn Smucker should compare notes--his 'maybe we should buy a bookstore' post got me thinking :-)
Take care, friend.
Tresta, this is a stunningly beautiful story. Thank you for sharing what y’all are building.
Wonderful. Beautiful. I love it.
Life’s been too busy for me to keep up with Substack but I have made time to read your posts ☺️ thank you for sharing your story. It has been very encouraging.
Truly, you have created a membership.
Also, "don’t call it a happy place, because it’s where I can be sad, too." Amen.
I loved hearing this! What a gift you you’ve given to your community. What sacrifice and tangible love. We have a mutual dear labor and delivery nurse friend ❤️❤️❤️ Next time I’m home visiting my dad I’m coming to see you at The Chalet Deli!
Tresta, we're about to dive headlong into yet another new thing (more coming soon), and I am so glad to read your stories. I have camera roll catalogues too. The times I don't remember except for by the odd screenshots and photos that I took to send to my husband. It's good to read someone else's story of survival. The small business life is brutal, but also beautiful. And yea, every time I think about what I pay for something now, I'm envisioning all the overhead behind it. You just don't know what you don't know, until you do.
Loved this. This almost reads like the chronicles of the newborn experience. Apparently opening a small business and having a new baby have many exhausting similarities. :’)
That ending, Tresta. My goodness. This whole story. Wow.
I want one of your Chalet stickers to put on my water bottle.
oh my goodness this is so beautiful and exhausting, motivating and eye-glazing. my hat's off to you and those who've come around you. i only wish that i didn't live on the east coast because i'd be in for some cinnamon rolls ...
bless you all.
Finally got to read this, and I'm so grateful for it. The part that really struck me was you making coffee for your friend on the first morning - I don't know if this was the headspace of it for you, but it made me think about undertaking something so huge from the simple, straightforward, loving posture of making a single cup of coffee for a friend. What a way to start!