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How to Stay Sane During The Mother’s Day Madness
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Episode 071: Ellie LaFever joins Vonda and Lori to share a few Mother's Day memories and give some great tips on staying sane for the crazy week of Mother's Day. Join the gals for a laugh or two and and 3 ways to prepare yourself and your body to deal with the stress every day!
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This is your confession. I want to hear this wipes . Yeah, it would be like a three o'clock and a new good m&ms welcome to the business and pleasure of flowers. We're your hosts? Fondle of fever and Lori Wilson . And we believe that business and Fen are a perfect combination. Kind of like us, Wanda,
Speaker 2Laurie . I have to say, I feel a little guilty setting here knowing that flower shops are like going crazy with mother's day . No , it , I know it's crazy. Um , but we are helping them by not calling them, not reaching out to them, not bothering them. Right. There you go. That's right. That's right. You know, they're facing challenges which are operational and we can't help them with that, but we can control one thing. We can maybe bring them a little laughter yes. Yes. And we have the special guest today. One of our favorites, miss Ellie Lefever . Hello? Hello. We're going to talk about some other day memories, right? We are. And also Ellie's going to talk to us about how to stay healthy during a busy time like this. Okay. Well, I'm looking forward to that. I'll take notes Ellie, before you guys start talking about your memories, because you were actually born and raised, I think both of you in a flower shop and this has been your livelihood. It has not been so much for me. Right? So I've been in the industry about 10 years. And so when you were talking about, Hey, you know, let's kind of talk about some other state memories. I thought I would start by my first introduction into this industry about 10 years ago. And I didn't know what I didn't know at the time I knew, you know, we had come on Valentine's day, week and I knew what , gosh, that was crazy. I had no idea from my point of view that it was so crazy for flower shops. I honestly had never really thought about it. So moving into mother's day, I didn't really think much either. So part of my job at that time was customer check-ins right. My job was to call and I'd look on my list. Who have I not reached out to you in a while and just check on and see how they're doing. So nobody told me not to do that the week of mother's day,
Speaker 1Beautiful little employee that are ,
Speaker 2I started making calls. And I thought it was weird because they were like, ah , she can't come to the phone right now. Can I take a message? And I was like, Oh, and I just kind of meander like I do. And no one was thrilled until once I called in an owner and I was like, Hey, how are you? And she's like, I'm good. I'm a silent it's was like, so I just call them to check in. And she goes, are you serious? And she just kinda laid into me. And I remember I hung up and I started crying. I'm like, what have I done? And I don't know if I called you Vaughn . I called somebody. Oh, I remember who I called anyway. And, and they were like, Oh no, don't do that this week. Thanks for the head . Yes. But I was scrubbed because I didn't realize they couldn't just shoot the breeze with me. So, but now I do. So I won't be calling anyone this week. You learned your lesson. I learned my lesson the hard way.
Speaker 3Oh, that's terrible. Oh my gosh. Well I know last year we shared a few memories from our mother's day. It's kind of personal stuff that you and I shared in episode 19 Laurie , and somehow in the middle of the night, I woke up thinking about my first mother's day at the flower shop. I was actually very young and I was going to my very first prom and I wasn't doing the flowers for myself because I didn't know at that point. And my boyfriend ordered the flowers from this flower shop in Nevada, Iowa called pose gate flower shop, which is no longer in business. So shout out to Nevada, Iowa, who you actually have a flower click member. Now Chris Clark and Billy got prom moved to the weekend before mother's day. So I was like, yes. Cause I was asking them that I'm like, do you still have prom on mother's day weekend? He said, no, they did finally move it. So anyway, mother's day was my first prom, Andrew first
Speaker 2Year working in a flower shop the week of
Speaker 3Mother's day. Right? All of those. How very interesting, how are the flowers that you couldn't do them yourself? Interesting enough. My date ordered two corsages because he didn't know your
Speaker 2Laugh .
Speaker 3I actually had a beer because Peggy told me that I needed a boot near. So she sent me with a Boonie ear . So it would anyway, just one of those funny little stories.
Speaker 2That's funny. Yeah . Well it's better than the alternative of him not ordering anything at all. Right. Anyways,
Speaker 3That's one that I woke in the night thinking of that. But when we own the flower shop, a few of my favorites were when fathers would come in with their kids to pick out something, it was jokes here. The dads are, they come in with the two little kids and the kids go right to the Teddy bears and to the candor of course for themselves. And then we try to steer them to the cooler, which should act with all kinds of great choices for everyone and dads we're steering them to what they know mom would like. And then of course, as the salesperson, Laurie , then you're trying to direct them to what you think they would like to. And that was always so fun. It was just a great time. Yeah. That's why, like we talked about, you should always have like a trio, a bundle, right. With a little stuffed animal. So the kid will go, Oh yes. So it's a compromise. So everybody's happy
Speaker 4Even if it's just the trio in your head that you've picked out. Because I think part of that experience is going to the plush, going to the candy, going to the cooler. So exactly you can suggest in that section and in your head, you know, when all three of them look good together, but you're kind of letting them choose that adds to the experience that we all love.
Speaker 3Totally agree. Yeah. It is an experience and that's really a great idea to have that in your mind when they come in another really memorable one, the flower shop was kind of nestled in a neighborhood. And one mother day , we had these two young kids come in. I mean, like they must have been, you know, eight and 10 at the most come in and they had some money in their pocket and they were so cute and they're walking around the store and they wanted to get something for their mom. And just, these are those kinds of things that you just actually, you kind of live for these times. So I said, what are you looking for? And they said , flowers for mom. They put their money, all the change. You can just see it, the change in the dollar bills. And they all kind of not was like $12. And then the little girl comes over and she had another dollar, you know? So we said, we have that. And so we just took him to the biggest arrangement in the cooler and said, you get to have this for your mom this year. It was . And they're like, really? And we're like, you saved a lot of money for your mama . Oh yeah . Sweet . They were thrilled. Yeah. So we took it up to their house, just a few houses up and it was just the sweetest thing. So those are the things as flourish. You kind of live , you know? Yeah. Yeah. Can you imagine that mom, how surprised she was rocking ? She's like, Ooh, well I'll buy it . That's those are really cheap flowers there . I'm going to keep, send you next time. I want that . I want another $12 bundle, please. Ellie, what about you? Do you have any memories of being at the flower
Speaker 4Shop during mother's day,
Speaker 3During mother's day? Yes .
Speaker 4I know . I think Valentine's day. Definitely. When you think of your memory bank in your head, like Valentine's day takes up the majority of that space from those years, but you know, mother's day you're towards the end of the school year. So you're more focused on that. Uh , but I do remember in high school mother's day fell on the weekend of prom. So I had prom, I was, you know, worried about getting my hair done and my makeup and making sure dress was good and the shoes and getting ready with my friends and all that. But if you know, Vonda, you know, she a workaholic and she had me come in early. Um , the Saturday, because my role in previous years was to be like the runner to grab the name of the person that comes in, go to the cooler, find their name with the corsage in the boot near box or the bouquet box and rent it out to them. So junior, senior year was no different. I was, I think I got out an hour early just so that I could, you know, get ready, but yeah. Business as usual. Oh, we didn't make work again. This is my memories. I'm alone. There hurts the shops closed at one. That would mean I got out at noon. Oh, that's up ? Yeah . So I have a question for you, Ellie.
Speaker 2What do you get your mom for? Mother's day? Because she owns a flower shop. It's not like you can buy her flowers or even a plant. Okay .
Speaker 4I mean, we would always go to like the colonial rows , right. Go to like a nice brunch and like a whole experience . Come back. Be more of an experience. Yeah. Yeah. It's still, yeah. It's still flowers. We still get me flowers.
Speaker 2Would
Speaker 4You create the design for her probably or ask one of the other girls like froze younger, ask one of the other girls working to like make something secretly for her. Yeah.
Speaker 3And Lori , we had several people contribute little card messages or memories of things that they remember from
Speaker 2Mother's day. Yeah. So you posted on our podcast group, our business and pleasure of flowers, Facebook group a few weeks ago and asked, you know, share with us memories , um, that you had. And we got quite a few and then I had some people email. And so we picked a handful, the, one of the ones that we thought that was very funny, it was a card message that Jennifer Halstead from a new beginning, florist, she is , um , right outside of Oklahoma city. She said still to this day, we talk and laugh about this mother's day card. And it said it was from my husband, not a husband, not a man to his mom. It was a husband to his wife. Okay. As even though we don't always show it, our boys and I love you . P S I promise to always buy you tacos and touch your butt.
Speaker 4That's very, very
Speaker 2Cute. Very, very cute, very lovingly. So the next one is from Sara Rue SCA . Uh , she owns Luteiz flowers and she said, my husband worked one mother's day and hand row
Speaker 4Made me laugh so hard. Sorry. My husband worked one mother
Speaker 2Thursday and hand wrote an order from a man to his wife, which then was given to a clerk for her to hand write on the card.
Speaker 4She thought that word dad was dud, or dude, I guess so card read . Thanks for making me a dud. He called and was so mad, which of course, after a long holiday made it even funnier. So even better, it was, he was a very formal stuffy guy. I think that is just, he is hilarious. And I think again , you know , we talk about when situations like that, it really does reveal the truth ,
Speaker 2True character of the person. If that would've happened for my husband, we would have laughed and laughed and told the story. I mean ,
Speaker 4It just tells you the difference in how people
Speaker 2Get so easily offended.
Speaker 4Ronnie , thanks for making me a dead. Oh gosh.
Speaker 2Oh, so Mary Higgins from accent flowers in Brentwood, Tennessee, she says, I think the most touching order I ever got for mother's day was a mother who sent flowers to her kids, stepmother thanking her for being such a great co mom to her kids. It melted my heart. Yeah. That's so sweet. Oh, sweet. Yeah. We used to get the ones that said you've been like a mother to me, you know, to somebody when they were 10 or thanks for being my second mom, it's very meaningful to still, to this day, every mother's day, even though I've moved away from Ohio, there's about four people that are not my own children that will send me a text or call and leave a voicemail. And just to say that same thing . And it just , that means more to me than even my own children when they do, they know they have to, or they're going to get recent Davis Bailey who Bailey does our transcripts. So Paley , I love you. So
Speaker 4I really do.
Speaker 2So that gives us just a little bit of laughter or, you know, bring a smile to your face. But now we need to talk a little bit about how to stay sane and during the mother's day madness, and then all has to do with your
Speaker 3Health, right. Ellie
Speaker 4That's right. Laurie and I are very passionate about this. And you are too about making sure that you are prepared for when these rushes come and
Speaker 3Let me interrupt you just a minute, because years ago I wasn't the healthy one. Do you remember? Mother's state was like the MnMs . We would have peanut M and M's on our desks.
Speaker 4Is this your confession? I want to hear this. What? Yeah , it would be like at three o'clock in like a new good m&ms was a professional snacker, no meals. Just snacks all day. Still snacks. Healthy snacks. Yes. Okay . I've changed a little bit
Speaker 3At the flower shop. We didn't though where we were . Weren't the healthiest. I think you even helped distribute those m&ms through the store.
Speaker 4Yeah. A lot of m&ms Laurie , lotta . Well, we had those old, you know, those old candy machines. Yes. That you would pull the thing and it would, you put it a quarter and there's three Skittles and something else. So we had a couple of those in the store and you know, you go to Sam's club and you get the massive bags of them. So we kind of had unlimited and the NIMS in the house. Oh my. And so everybody would have their own little cup of M and M's. So what would you guys have for beverages? Well, Vonda was a big diet Coke gal. Yes . Same in the nineties, you know, same. But then
Speaker 3We also had the water cooler that was in the cooler .
Speaker 4Yeah . We had water, but definitely not the healthiest of habits and you know, Twinkies and all that. I can not picture Vonda eating a Twinkie.
Speaker 3Oh, I love Twinkies. I could still give me a good Twinkie any day.
Speaker 4Oh my God. Honest to God. I don't know that I have ever, I'm not a health nut either. I mean, I like healthy, but more my , I don't think I've ever bought a box of Twinkies in my life.
Speaker 3And we even have a recipe for eight Twinkie frosting that you can make.
Speaker 4Okay . Sorry .
Speaker 3No , the it's like a white cake and they split it and you put Twinkie frosting in the middle or filling and you make it a whole pan of Twinkies.
Speaker 4I would be more into that hostess cupcakes. Not between . Yes, those were good. Okay. Anyway, anyway, this is the opposite of the information. What not to do what not to do. Okay. So let me just bring it around. You know, health is truly well . And if there's one thing we've realized this year, it is that and how you cannot buy it. You can not buy good health . Right . So it's very valuable. It's priceless. And now that the world is beginning to heal and beginning to return to normal, I think it's incredibly important to prioritize our immune systems. Right. They can not be neglected. Obviously we've all been trying to do our part this past year or two , but right now, when you're getting out and about, and you have more people coming into your store and all of that, it's important to protect yourself. And so when you're stressed, your immune system goes down, right? And then on top of that, when you're stressed during these busy times, you're not thinking straight on, on reaching for the Apple. You're more so reaching for the m&ms, which also just puts you further down the rabbit hole. Right? So it's important to get ahead of it before these stressful times with preparation . So we have some tips. I have three tips before you even, you know, brush your teeth in the morning. Number one, when you're laying in bed, take one minute. As soon as you open your eyes, you're wiggling your toes. Think of three things that you're grateful for. You don't have to get out a journal. You don't have to write them down. Just think of three things that you're grateful for that day. And then remember to stretch. Number two is just stretch your body, whether you're in bed or right when you get up. And then after you get up, remember to drink at least one full glass of water, because you're dehydrated from sleeping all night and your body hasn't had any water. So you need to rehydrate anything else to add.
Speaker 2Well, no, the number three, one , I just want to expand and these are great. I agree. And it's funny because I always wake up between four 30 and 5:00 AM because it's time to get up and go to the bathroom because I'm old. But every single time since this whole COVID thing, I lay there. And I think, but I think in bullet points, if you can imagine that yes, sometimes my three R Davis Bailey Reese , you know, or health, the set , you know, whatever. But I think what you're saying there is you don't have to even mentally write the journal, just boom, boom, boom. Think of three things, because it's so important before you put those feet on the ground that you're mentally prepared with gratefulness that goes all the way down to your heart, you know? And so I, I love that. And my trick for drinking the glass of water, I always have to have it finished before I can go to my coffee and I want my coffee more. So I get that water down first. That's smart.
Speaker 4Okay. So then we just have some quick ideas and girls add in, as you see fit, I have some quick bullet points of ideas for breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner. Okay. So breakfast instead of the sugar cereal or the pop tarts or the McDonald's or the Duncan start your day with some fresh fruit, great for digestion, do a smoothie. And even, you know, even McDonald's has a smoothie to smooth . And I tried that they're good. They're low sugar, blah, blah, blah. So smoothies hard-boiled eggs are great if you're heading out quick , um, avocado, obviously along with that, I like to have the avocado with the egg oatmeal. Anything else?
Speaker 2The other thing I would say is the brand muffins that I make. I really love to you. It makes a whole bunch of it. And then you can just make them the night before, or if you want to pop them in the oven when you're drinking your water, and then you have nice fresh muffins because the mix is already made. I loved a nice fresh muffin in the morning, too.
Speaker 4Yeah. Maybe we can send out the recipe, put it on Instagram or email or something. Those brand muffins are good.
Speaker 2What I think is so cool about that one recipe that you to do is you can just make a few at a time and that batter will keep right for a weeks , weeks ,
Speaker 4Six weeks. That is great . It doesn't last that long, but no, but
Speaker 2Like being able to know that's in there and you were there homemade and fresh every morning, if you want them, or if you want to skip a morning, that's fine to have your hard boiled eggs or smoothies . Right. So we need to remember, we can, we can post that recipe.
Speaker 4Okay. Lunches, salads, whether they're homemade, whether they're from, you know, if you guys are ordering out, just remember to get your greens in same with wraps , you can do tuna with crackers, things like that. But most importantly about lunch, you know, people usually feel like the two or 3:00 PM afternoon slump and to avoid this. So food takes energy to digest. So when you have a happy lunch, that's why you feel about the slump. So just remembered eating lighter at lunchtime is important to keep your energy sustained throughout the whole day.
Speaker 2Yeah. And then we can have a snack in the middle of the day, right?
Speaker 4Exactly. Smaller, some celery or apples with peanut butter.
Speaker 2I'm just going to say back to the wraps and the tuna, because I don't like to take a lot of time preparing my lunch. Cause usually I have Monda on speaker and she's going into the kitchen with me and I'm grabbing something and I'm trying to get back. I buy and it's a little bit more expensive, but totally worth it. The containers of pre-washed romaine leaves long leaves. And I use it as my tortilla or whatever. And I do those packets of tuna. I just did one today. I just throw it in there. I put, if I have a ripe avocado, I'll throw it on there and do tomato. I do some of that chili, lime seasoning from trader Joe's. And then I do fruit
Speaker 4A few. I do get some chips cause I love chips,
Speaker 2But it's , I don't feel super heavy afterwards. I also, I'm going to get a snack later, but it's, it's so easy to rip up in the bag, dump it on one of those lettuce things and just go and it's pretty filling, honestly, [inaudible]
Speaker 4The protein in there from the two or you could do the chicken or whatever. Yeah , yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2You guys are the ones that the first time I ever had those packets of tuna, I think it was with one of you
Speaker 4The cruise season . Yes . Yeah . Those are my cupboard . So snacks, you can do celery or Apple with peanut butter or almond butter. Carrots and ranch are always good. Yogurt and banana. Okay. What if I want a little chocolate? Can I have some dark chocolate? You can have some dark chocolate. Just mention that because you know, some of us like something sweet and yogurt and banana is good, but I can hear a lot of people going, Oh, but I want something really sweet. Right? Dark chocolate with almonds in it. I mean, that's good. It's got some, all , you could also get those individual jello packs. I know it doesn't sound the most appealing, but jello has like the sweetness, the sugar-free jello .
Speaker 2Yeah. My mom used to do that and she rolled up the grapes in them and then put them in the freezer. Have y'all ever done that
Speaker 4Role of the grapes in jello? In drums ?
Speaker 2Hi jello . Yes. The sugar-free cherry, whatever jello. And you wash your grapes when they're kind of wet. You roll them around in it and put them on a sheet pan, throw them in the freezer, a taste
Speaker 4Sugary treat. Wow. I've never heard that. They're pretty good. But no ,
Speaker 2I think having a piece of chocolate here or there. Yeah . No, it's something I look forward to.
Speaker 4Yeah. You can't deprive yourself and we don't want to beat ourselves up.
Speaker 2Yeah. You can't deprive yourself. You can't feel guilty. As long as you are balancing your unhealthy choices with at least, even if you say, okay, well I did have some oatmeal and a bunch of fruit this morning. So if I had a piece of cake, that's okay. I'm not gonna worry about it. I'm really not. But you don't do it in the middle of the day because if you have to work for another five more hours crash,
Speaker 4Right ? Yeah. I think that's the main point here is that it's not just vanity, right? This is, this is for sustained energy so that you can be your best so that you can be the best leader and work your best. Right. And then dinner just remembered to balance it with protein starch and vegetables. You can do chicken, rice, broccoli, salmon, keenwah asparagus, things like that. So just have it be balanced. I know it's the hardest meal to control. Um, Vonda, you should mention your little evening treat that you love
Speaker 3You be my yogurt bars,
Speaker 4Yogurt bars,
Speaker 3Like the best. They're like a hundred calories. And they come in all different flavors and they're Yasso bars. And my favorite is the cookie dough.
Speaker 4Is it the mint? You have a new favorite every time. That's because there are so many different ones. They have these salt, caramel, they have cookies and cream now
Speaker 3And chocolate chip mint . We used to be my favorite, but now
Speaker 4You're broken each bar.
Speaker 3There's also which one did we just try ? Butter pecan.
Speaker 2Ooh, that would be good. Our little nighttime treat here are the little trader Joe's holds the cone. Have you had those there ? The little mini ice cream cones. They're like this I'm showing like people can see me. They're about three inches tall and they have all different flavors. They have a coffee, one in the fall. They have a cinnamon ginger one. My favorite is mint chocolate chip. And I believe that is only in the summer and it's not around right now, but they always have the cookie one and a chocolate and vanilla. And they, my husband wished wants to eat like four at a time, but he realizes really eating one. It's quite satisfying, but we'll buy like three boxes at a time because they're always sold out.
Speaker 3And what about you, Allie? What's your nighttime snack?
Speaker 4Mm , those little chocolate covered Asahi berries. They're not real offsite varies, but they're the little Brookside ones trader Joe's has the healthy version of those. So I've been having like three of those that night. They're just a little circle, you know , get a little bit of sweet. We want, yeah . But also I do like fresh fruit bars. Yes. Like frozen, fresh fruit bars. The mega ones are my favorite. Yes. And those are nice. Yeah. Yep . Those are good for something .
Speaker 2Oh, you're making me hungry. And I know, you know, honestly the hardest part of dinner, going back to that and I'm looking through all of this is preparation. I think when I make a bad dinner decision, it's because I'm exhausted and it's easier to order a pizza than to prepare everything . So my only suggestion there is to kind of mentally prepare or do some things like meal prep. I don't mean full on. Like people go crazy, but have some things prep, whether you have a meal prep, service, you know, sign up for something like that, or you have a spouse or an older child or somebody that can help get some things praying , paired , or you can just throw in a sheet pan and some, some chicken and vegetables because when the mistakes happen, the bad choices are when we're just exhausted. And our brains cannot think of one more thing to do such as
Speaker 4So true. But remember, even your worst days only have 24 hours. Yes.
Speaker 3Can you can hit the reset button the next day
Speaker 4Start. I love it.
Speaker 2All right , ladies, we got a wind down, but I got to go around and ask the question of all hope questions and Vonda.
Speaker 3I'm going to start with you. You're your
Speaker 2First person that made eye contact with me. So we're doing it . What
Speaker 3Is inspiring you right now? Actually what's inspiring me is that in a month, we're going to have another photo shoot. Although that sounds like to most people, it's like, Oh, that's a lot of work, but it's super inspiring because I've been listening to our flower cook members about what they want, what we can do and listen to Ellie and the web team. It's really exciting for me to see what's coming up next. So that's, what's giving me inspiration. Yeah.
Speaker 2That is going to be, it's going to be fun. Okay. Miss Ellie,
Speaker 4I actually have you'd blamed for this one, Laurie . So I think I'm previous, maybe even a year ago or six months ago when you asked me this question. I think maybe one time I said tick-tock yes. And since then I deleted the app. I wasn't on it. I just got bored, like et cetera, et cetera. And you've been sending me little funny videos that require me to re download. Right. And now I'm back to loving tick-tock . But mostly for like the two I like are either a little workout videos or like workout tips or snacks, like, or like cooking or like things like that. There's a whole world of yeah. Talk that is just very productive, actually giving you little tips and tricks and hacks and stuff like that. So I'm back on the Dick talk, Laurie ,
Speaker 2I can keep sending you stuff. I find. So you know what? We should do a podcast on
Speaker 4The stress free
Speaker 2Version of tick-tock. I think you can go down as with any platform. You can
Speaker 4No down roads , but I'm like you, I, what I love are
Speaker 2Finding these people that can make something out of nothing with a piece of wood and what they can turn it into. Like that kind of thing meets me how they took an old piece of furniture that they found at a flea market and they turned it into this really cool mid-century modern thing and sold it for $550 .
Speaker 4But you know, so
Speaker 2It is, it's inspiring. There's a of smart people out there that are sharing their information. Yes, exactly. So I love that. I love that. Okay. So my turn, so I was trying to dig through all my stuff when we were going to do this. Cause I told you somewhere and it's back home in Oklahoma. My sister has it. It's my mom. She has a whole photo album of nothing, but all of the poems that we wrote to her on mother's day as children, it was like a requirement. Some of them, the majority of them are silly, but I didn't have it. But I did find a letter that my youngest child who is now an adult wrote, and he must have been seven or eight maybe. And I don't know if he wrote it in Sunday school or at school, but there were writing prompts because every, every paragraph starts with you are special because blank. The next one, thank you for blank. I am writing this because like, these are not sentences he would ever say , but I found these coupons. He wrote me that I never redeemed . One is for breakfast in bed, dang, to do laundry. He didn't spell it. Right. But I know it says laundry. One is for a hug. And one is a dog, a bath too . I'm going to text him a picture of these and say, excuse me, I would like to redeem these. Please tell them there is no expiration date on them. There's no expiration date . So anyway, I'm so glad we have this topic because I might not have found these and this little envelope. And it just, I don't know , it just made me, it made me happy. The one little sentence at the very end, it just says, you will get some flowers, seeds, and I will plant them for you wherever you want. The cool thing is after they die, the seeds will still be there so you can plant them again and again, and they live forever. Oh . And I was like, he wrote that someone had to know you that, or I'm like, that's bizarre, but it was cute. But I feel like this would probably send the school. There look sounds like a Bible lesson somewhere within there about the seeds . So I don't know, but I love it. Very sweet, very sweet. So all of our clickers out there, remember why you're doing what you do. You're going to make a lot of mothers happy this year. And that's what it's all about. It's really spreading the love and the joy and memory . Thank you so much for listening to our podcast. We hope you enjoyed spending time with us because we enjoy spending time with you. If you did make sure you hit that subscribe button or add the business and pleasure of flowers to your Google morning routine or your flash briefing on Alexa, we look forward to seeing you next week. So please come back and join us and discover how a bit of knowledge
Speaker 1In one small change in your mindset can take you to new levels in your life and business. [inaudible] bye .