07/02/2022
You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place... like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place.
Today was our last day. We closed right at 3:00pm and not a minute earlier because for once we didn’t want to rush around to close. Saying goodbye to the building will be easy peasy compared to the goodbyes to customers this week.
It’s been weird, Miami!
Our Riley was planning on leaving us around August 1st to start college and begin working towards her passion, which apparently is not making sandwiches. We tried extremely hard to convince her that making sweets and sandwiches with us is 100x more rewarding than college. She just didn’t think that was true. (I mean… it wasn’t, but we just really didn’t want her to go.) We told her not very long into her Beestro career that if she stuck with us for a long time we’d buy her a pink car just like Mary Kay would do for consultants.
Riley has seen me at my best, worst and all the in betweens. She was hired before we opened and has stuck with us through it all. I’m so thankful Riley chose to give us chance after chance. We closed before she got to leave us and honestly, I’m not sure we would’ve been able to go on without her.
I knew what needed to be done before we said our goodbyes. Unfortunately, I guess Mary Kay gatekeeps the pink Cadillacs and you can’t just request that at a dealership. This will have to do for now, my sweet Riley Madison. If I ever win the lottery, it’s the first purchase. Promise.
Momma, I’m so glad we did this. Thank you for fulfilling this dream with me. You made quite an impact on this town, our employees and me. This week so many hugs and “I love you”s were happening at 29 North Main, simply because you were the most loving person some people had seen in a long while. You stood behind the counter and made a difference in so many lives because that’s just who you are. You really are my best friend. I am so beyond proud of you, as my business partner, a boss babe and a mother. Whatever is next in this life, just keep on loving so fiercely and with wild abandon. We all need it.
That’s all for now, friends.💛