09/28/2026
She might not be a looker... but if you've ever lost it all and rebuilt from nothing well you just might understand what this little kitchen means to me 🥰
Our bakery from 2019 - 2023 on Tiny Town Road in Clarksville was the cutest thing. Our food trailer we had from 2022 - 2023 was HUGE for a bakery trailer and was just so beautiful! Then life happened HARD.
I remember tears streaming down my face and looking up at the sky saying "God if you want me to surrender it all just make it clear" everything I had for my business... the food trailer, the suv to pull it, and everything inside our bakery all sold within in 30 days for asking price... no haggling, no fighting for it's worth, just taken care of 🙏 that was my clear answer.
I spent the next several months driving to Memphis twice a week while one of my children was in the hospital. From August through November. Nothing will bring you to your knees quite like watching your child hurt so badly and not be able to help 💔
Fast forward to May of 2024 and my sister tried to call while we were eating dinner. I thought I'll call her back afterwards. When I didn't answer she immediately called my husband's phone and I knew I needed to answer. "He's gone Heather. Dad died". This was the man who told me less than a year before "Honey, I know this hurts. To sell everything you worked so hard for, but you are doing the right thing. Just trust God!" Dad and I worked through so many hardships to get our relationship to where it was and TOGETHER we broke the chains of addiction so that they would not be passed down through our family. My father died a man in recovery 🙌🫶🙌 His death certificate showed coronary artery disease as the cause of death. No drugs, no combined toxicity. A heart attack. The next 6 months was mostly a blur where nothing felt real.
About 4 months after Dad died, his mother passed. He was mamaw's special baby. Born with double cleft palate, double cleft lip, no roof to his mouth, concave chest, and a heart defect. What they went through together for so many years, I had figured she wouldn't make it long after losing him. She was the glue that held our family together 🥺 my last living grandparent was now gone.
2025 was the year I decided I wasn't willing to miss out helping my Mom and step Dad the way I missed my chance to help my Dad and step Mom. So I started traveling to NY once or twice each month for 6 months to help my parents sort, pack, and get ready to move to TN with me. On Mom's birthday we hit the road to my place.
We now live as a 3 generations household 💞
November 2025 I saw this little spot vacant in Dover and thought MAYBE... but only with God's blessing. I prayed once again for a clear sign and it was given. No storefront now. Not this time. Because I have chosen to be a woman of God first, a woman who puts her family right after God, and a woman who puts her passion third! So, that's why we work pop ups, markets, and do preorder delivery instead of opening as a storefront. I had it all wrong once. God said nope, took it all, and said now build it right this time 🙌 now I can work for myself AND be a caregiver for my family 💝
So yeah, she's rough on the eyes... BUT SO FULL OF HEART ❤️
"Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in it's various forms" 1 Peter 4:10
