🩷💼 Watching Mom Work
What I learned from my mom. What (I hope) my kids are learning from me.
I’m writing to you on Launch Day Eve for Simplified’s Spring 2024 Collection.
For Team Simplified, this day gives Christmas Eve vibes: we’ve spent so much time ironing out logistics and making magic and working hard to make it all come together. The new products are all in their places, snug and ready to go, just waiting for the moment you open your box with the YAY! sticker and rifle through your goodies with delight.
We’ve worked hard to get to this moment, and tomorrow is a huge celebration day for us. Our whole team gathers on Zoom for the day, watching the Simplified Sisterhood from all over the world shop for their new goodies. We love spending this time together, sending virtual high-fives and getting tickled by the products and patterns you guys are swooning over (because they’re almost always the ones we’re swooning over too!).
For this Launch Day, I think I’m going to do a little something different.
This time, I’m taking my kids with me to work.
I’m going to mirror my computer screen up to the TV, so they can be part of the team Zoom and watch our Shopify Live View stats. I want my kids to celebrate with us. And I want them to connect the dots of what their mom does for a living (and why she’s been so busy lately).
And I hope, like every other day, they see their mom coming alive through the work she does.
When I was growing up, I watched my mom work.
She was an elementary school teacher. I know so many of you are teachers too, and I want you to know how thankful I am for all of you. I see how hard you work and how much you care for your students.
I see you at your kitchen table when everyone else has hit the hay, grading papers and poring over lesson plans for the next day.
I see you worrying about a kid who’s struggling with getting homework in on time, another who never seems to have enough to eat at lunch.
I see you carrying all these worries and details while you battle test scores and curriculum demands from the state and school district.
I see you weaving through it all with an unwavering commitment to your calling and a smile for your students, even when your eyes are lined with darker circles than you’d care for.
I see you because I watched my mother walk in your path. And it taught me so much about how I wanted to walk my own.