shockingly sweet!
i was a sleepless mom of two young boys under the age of three. i was starting to sew baby items at my kitchen table for family and friends. and i had just launched a simple website showcasing my collection. i *thought* about the idea of sending samples to press. i even went as far as typing out the letters to the editors on letterhead. but i decided that maybe it wasn’t the right time. so the letters took up a permanent spot on my dining room table.
a few weeks after that, i was awakened by my husband looking frantic and saying “SOMETHING is going on with your website! it’s so slow … you have like several thousand hits this morning and it’s only 7:30am. right now there are like 200 people looking at your website!!”
huh? i thought to myself, i didn’t send any letters out. they are still on the dining room table. i remember thinking maybe my husband did not look at the stats right. i went to my laptop… and as i was logging on to check the stats myself, my new emails popped up. i clicked on my weekly daily candy email, which i so loved and read as the bible of weekly fashion must haves (at the time there was only one kids version, once a week). in shock and with my heart racing, this is what i read with my husband standing next to me and my children playing at my feet:
here is link on the daily candy website
one of the letters on the dining room table was addressed to the daily candy editor, never sent. it has been three years this month and i still think about that day: the irony, the connection, the excitement. i kept that letter to the editor and still look at it often. it is a great reminder to me of what you ask for or tell yourself you want, often time finds you before you pursue it.
and yes, i am currently telling the universe what i would like to happen next! stay tuned.
Tags: daily candy kids, joyababy
