Soaking in the sun...warmed our toes...now back to work!

                                  

We are back! We enjoyed an amazing time in Mexico. Holbox was a peaceful island that allowed us all to wash our worries away and relax. 

Kelsey ran the store perfectly, she brought in money that we needed and when I arrived on Monday found the store in clean, neat order. We are so blessed to have her in our lives!! 

It's fun being back at work. Yes, I loved being away, but I love interacting with everybody as well. I love being at the store, productive, placing orders, rearranging and being a part of the community of shops in Historic Railroad Sq. 

Just to let you all know a little incite into how we are doing.........

We are hanging in there by the skin of our teeth. It is hard, as you all know to run a store in this economic crisis. We are trying to get inventive with how to keep the money coming in, so that in return we can place more orders, as well as pay ourselves (a feat we have yet to achieve!). But with your added support we are going to try to make it! We have too, we want too, we MUST! Our lease comes up for renewal in a couple months, can you believe we have been in this location for a year? We have tried to negotiate the conditions of the lease in some ways, but to no avail. So we will just cross our fingers and hope that we can make it all work. 

We are thinking of some new ways of bringing in the money, for one would be to bring in Adult clothing as well. We are in the talks of subleasing to a woman that does very well with her clothing and it would flow with our children's lines. This way moms and daughters would be able to shop together! We also had the idea of bringing in a children's shoe store into 1/3 of the store but....we have yet to get a response for that posting. 

I am so excited, because people are hearing about us down in LA...that must be a sign that we need to stay going!!! I am going to take it as that, at least :)