09/26/2026
Last — and most certainly not least — in the “people who made my season possible” series… Mom. ❤️
Getting a picture for this post may actually be harder than running the bakery, because Mom does not enjoy having her picture taken. 😂
Which is funny, because most days she is one of the biggest driving forces behind this place.
Since I’ve had kids, Mom has been the one here first thing in the morning. She’s behind so much of our morning bake-off, she’s the main set of hands assembling your pies, she’s a multitasker extraordinaire, and she keeps the rest of us — myself included — moving in the right direction.
Before working full-time alongside me, Mom spent her career as a nurse. And let me tell you, having a retired nurse working in a bakery/farm market has come in handy more times than you’d probably imagine. 😂
Family, staff, customers with bee stings, unexpected falls and the occasional “Heather, can you come look at this?” — apparently retirement from nursing just meant relocating the clinic to the bakery.
But there is so much more to Mom than everything she physically does here.
She has a generational work ethic that is pretty hard to match. She sees what needs doing and does it. She doesn’t need to be asked. She can have five things on the go and somehow know exactly where all five stand — while also noticing the thing the rest of us completely missed.
And I’ve realized through writing all of these posts that so much of what I’ve been praising in my staff — showing up, working hard, taking care of people, pitching in wherever you’re needed — are things I learned by watching her.
But even all of that isn’t the most important part.
She’s my person.
The person I can tell any story to. Ask any question. Bring any problem, worry, ridiculous idea or concern to. Business, kids, family, life — Mom is usually one of the first people I want to talk to.
I hope everyone gets to have someone like that in their corner. And if you’re lucky enough that it’s your mom too, you know exactly what I mean. ❤️
Some day shes going to decide to actually retire, and finding someone to replace everything she does around is going to be nearly impossible.
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