Bye Bye Books Bye Bye

The involvement with Book Are Fun was a great experience that has reached an end. 

 

It started as a part time way to have a side source of income and involve the kiddos. That was not what happened due to poor choices and unforeseen circumstances. Sadly we ended up with a full time pain.

 It was almost therapeutic boxing up our inventory and returning it to the company. The project lasted longer and was more difficult that we expected. It was such a wonderful feeling to sit down at the end of all that work with some pizza and conversation with the kids. So in the goal of helping our family to grow closer together worked in spite of the obstacles.

There have been so many heart aches with this adventure. (Please offer a prayer that we can settle the accounting situation without needing to hire an attorney.) I will only say that I am extremely proud of my husband. J has an incredible drive to forgive and to do things for others even when they don't see it.

 

One individual is saying nasty things about J implying he isn't trust worthy. He wanted J to quit his real full time job. This is SHOCKING considering we know how little money was actually made. It isn't/wasn't nearly enough to cover anything like a full time position for two individuals plus the part time work of the young ones.

 

My children could not continue to work for pennies as they need to pay for college. We are most thankful for the four months of their "volunteering" with a little allowance and I mean little, the math was done and it was around $.40 per hour! Even if we had just "hired" one of our kids they would have worked many many hours with still no pay.  Really the income is too minimal, hopefully J's departure will allow others to earn enough to make ends meet. It really is sad. It is amazing how differently people can see the same situation.

  We wish all well and will continue to search for the business adventure that will fit us better.   For now it is bye bye. 

Zucchetto Out

We mentioned before that dad and Mr. D came to the conclusion that they would both run a business very differently.  I am very happy that these wise fathers made the difficult decision to separate into two business early on instead of waiting longer and making things too complicated.  Zucchetto is staying with Mr. D so we had to move the join warehouse into his new location.  This was a ton of work but many hands made it go quickly.  By December 1 there will no longer be a joint enterprise.  We ask for prayers for both companies, we believe that both will do well and be a support to each other.  

Good luck to the D Family and to Zucchetto Enterprises.  The T family look forward to working on Camauros Enterprises very soon.

With them gone. . .

Adorable

Beautiful 

When the big kids left we decided to keep busy.  The big kids got us a puzzle of the Rialto Bridge in Venice to work on.  We planned for a visit from Ms. Brenda and had a blast.  it took a few days to change our routine but once we did things worked out great.  In spite of the generous offers to help us from all of our friends we all picked up the slack in the left over chores that the big kids left behind.  I am so proud of the younger ones.  They ran the house very much like the older kids would have.

 We did have  a flat tire at one point but nothing major.  Other than that flat tire,we had things pretty much under control.

 The puzzle took much of our time but we were racing to finish the puzzle before the big kids made it to the bridge.

 I even made sure I still got to go to my weekly mom meetings.  I took the twins with me and their friend joined us.  So many babies drew us much attention.

Back at home the puzzle was finished and we even took care of a shipment that arrived for Zucchetto.  We had it all under control.

Even though we had things under control our favorite part of the days were when we could talk to the big kids with Skype.

Book Fair Business Going Well

The family business is going well.  We have been very business setting up,  running, doing paperwork for, inventory and all other aspects of running this family business.  It isn't a format we created.  We are following the format set up by someone else and it is going extremely well.  

Goobers and Pooker at work!

Bear helping out!

That being said we have had to make some major changes already.  J and Mr. D started Zucchetto Enterprises as a joint adventure but we have discovered that each man would like to run their own business very differently.  So we are now working to end the partnership and create a second company.  Mr. D and his family will keep the Zucchetto name and the T family will become the Camauros Enterprises.  It is so much work but it will be worth it.  We are so excited to continue our opportunity with the book fairs.  More on Camauros Enterprises to follow soon!!!

Things are coming together!

Creating a "warehouse".  The books are set up in a way in which they can be grabbed and taken to a show.  This was a lot of work.  The older kids were the ones that did much of the work in setting it up and organizing the space.  The younger ones (I refer to my team, team B) came along and broke down all the boxes and cleaned up the trash.  I hear that the location inside our garage is temporary.

Zucchetto Enterprises Begins

I know it doesn't look like it here but a company is being born.  These two husbands and fathers have long discussed wanting to create a company for their families to grow into.  After years of talk and research the foundations are now being laid.  No major job changes for these men just the beginning of something that will later be very big.  That is the dream.  I am so proud of my hubby and Mr. D for having the foresight to plan ahead for their families and the courage to begin even in this time of great economic uncertainty.   This is not the announcement of any life changes but the acknowledgement of the birth of Zucchetto Enterprises.