Cruisin' Chronicles: March 2019

Recently my husband and I visited a local restaurant with friends. Our server recognized my husband as Santa Claus and asked to take a picture with him for her daughter. She then told us her story.

As it turns out, her daughter is adopted. Her biological mother was a co-worker of this server's and had made the decision to abort her baby. After some discussion the server and her spouse offered to feed, clothe, and house the co-worker for the duration of her pregnancy with the understanding that the baby would be adopted by the server and her spouse upon delivery.

As you can imagine, anytime another person is entered into a home under such circumstances there are challenges; however, all worked out in the end. This baby is now 3 years old and living in a safe, loving home.

Chills covered my body as the server told us this story. She and her spouse SAVED this child. There is no other way for me to describe it.

Who knows what this little girl will grow up to be, but at least she has an opportunity to grow up and become all that she can be. Had her biological mother continued on her path to abortion this little girl would not have had a chance.

I still marvel over this story so many weeks after originally hearing it! It's a story of heroism on the part of this server and her spouse, in my opinion.

What's Happening?

We are in inventory building mode! Last year was so successful and so stressful. Demand was fierce and difficult to keep up with. After all, each and every basket is hand made, stitch by stitch, and pine needle by pine needle. There is no way to industrialize the process. After considering all of these factors we decided to take the first half of the year to build inventory in anticipation for the many shows scheduled for the second half of the year.

Here are a few of the baskets I've finished so far!