04/21/2025
Y’all. I’m not gonna lie. Today was the hardest day I’ve had so far as a small business owner. Missing flowers, substitutions, customs holding up flowers, multiple emails, phone calls and texts from wholesalers trying to get us what we need this week. Adding to that the stress of needing more design help, more hands, more back strength, lack of communication between people and over $6,000 of fresh flowers showing up earlier than expected and not ready for them has left me in tears today. I’ve said “that’s it, I’m quitting” through most of the afternoon. It’s not been a pretty day in the workshop. It’s 6:40pm and I still need to design more for tomorrow’s event and unwrap the roses before taking a bottle of ibuprofen and heading to bed.
But, I’m blessed with a family who supports me. A son who spent four hours helping me cut flowers and a husband who came home and immediately started collecting all the boxes and trash. A friend who came and designed with me this morning and stayed even though she had her own work to do to make sure that most of it was finished. I am blessed to have a heavenly father who loves me more than I’ll ever know. And you know what, I have hope. Hope is what we have after the resurrection and hope will keep me going throughout the rest of this week.
