My friends know that I am not someone that easily gets knocked down. I try really hard to take all of life’s punches, learn something from them, brush myself off and move on. I am strong. I am not normally a whiner or a complainer. So here’s the truth and this is just really hard for me to write. I have been more stressed out and had more meltdowns in the past 6 months than I have in my entire life. Most of these meltdowns have occurred in the past 2 weeks. I was prepared for the stress of mortgaging everything that my husband and I own for this really solid business plan that I had of taking LaRue Fine Chocolate to it’s next phase of life. My customers have been so supportive of LaRue for the past 5 years and it is time for it to grow. What I was not prepared for, however, was this new level of stress hell of being about 72 hours away from being able to open when the damn Covid19 apocalypse occurred.
I am hoping to restart production of chocolates in the next week or so and will be able to do curbside pickup and online sales and replenish inventory at some of our favorite retailers.
Until then I am asking you all to please purchase gift cards. I have just added these feature into the SHOP section. Many of you have reached out and asked how you could help and this is how for right now. I’ll let everyone know when I can start making chocolates again. I hope to see you real soon.
xo-E