It was so nice having Jayden home for a month. She told me herself, it is bitter sweet leaving. She loves home, being here, yet she also loves being in Alva. I am glad she likes her college and the little town, but I am so glad she still misses home and us. She plans to go on a family vacation with us. She doesn't think missing class and having people cover chores will be a problem. She wants to go to Florida and would even pay her own way if she had to.
Jayden had to go back a day earlier than expected to avoid the snow coming in. Fortunately she timed her trip back with Alex so they could follow one another. I still think 10 hours in a truck with 3 horses in a big trailer alone is too much. We did convince her not to take her dog Tuff.
During her time at home, Jayden was a whirlwind when she got back trying to keep up with Rocking J orders and Christmas. The more items she listed, the more she sold. She had back orders to fill, she had to make a trip one day to Prairie Iowa with me to get her leather work done on a dozen bags with her leather guy. She's had numerous packages stacked in the garage for the poor mail carrier to stuff in his trunk each day. She kept the post office busy. Jayden hit her one year mark before Christmas with her Rocking J Co. She had an amazing year in sales and made some great profit! The sales continued into the weeks following Christmas. It seemed the sales were actually picking up into the New year. Jayden posts something on social media and it goes wild. It has been great to see how well it has gone and how Jayden's ideas for new future merchandise and products.
While she was home, we ate out a lot, did Krav classes, worked a couple times at Overflow, rode horse a lot, went to a barrel race, had live cattle ropings in our arena, went shopping, binge watched shows, had late night talks, celebrated Christmas and New Years. and packaged and shipped a ton of Rocking J orders. It went really fast. I love having Jayden home, she is the calm in the crazy here in this house with all the males. She is so helpful with cleaning up the house and dishes. She makes me laugh and smile.
Jayden had to go back a day earlier than expected to avoid the snow coming in. Fortunately she timed her trip back with Alex so they could follow one another. I still think 10 hours in a truck with 3 horses in a big trailer alone is too much. We did convince her not to take her dog Tuff.
During her time at home, Jayden was a whirlwind when she got back trying to keep up with Rocking J orders and Christmas. The more items she listed, the more she sold. She had back orders to fill, she had to make a trip one day to Prairie Iowa with me to get her leather work done on a dozen bags with her leather guy. She's had numerous packages stacked in the garage for the poor mail carrier to stuff in his trunk each day. She kept the post office busy. Jayden hit her one year mark before Christmas with her Rocking J Co. She had an amazing year in sales and made some great profit! The sales continued into the weeks following Christmas. It seemed the sales were actually picking up into the New year. Jayden posts something on social media and it goes wild. It has been great to see how well it has gone and how Jayden's ideas for new future merchandise and products.
While she was home, we ate out a lot, did Krav classes, worked a couple times at Overflow, rode horse a lot, went to a barrel race, had live cattle ropings in our arena, went shopping, binge watched shows, had late night talks, celebrated Christmas and New Years. and packaged and shipped a ton of Rocking J orders. It went really fast. I love having Jayden home, she is the calm in the crazy here in this house with all the males. She is so helpful with cleaning up the house and dishes. She makes me laugh and smile.
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