Have A Little Faith

Warm weather is back.  Maybe it will even stay around this visit.  I can open the front door of my shop.  There are chalk drawings back on the front sidewalk.  Kids are out and about again.  More junior high kids have discovered Coco's.  That is good and bad.  I am used to my regulars.  They are good kids who enjoy having their place.  I can and do trust them.  If they are short a few cents, they will pay me back the next time they come in.  Without my asking.  They always remember.  With more kids coming around, there are bound to be a few thrown in the bunch that I can't trust.  Some that I will have to watch more closely.  Some that will not have credit with the shop.  They are going to throw their candy wrappers on the ground.  They will be destructive.  They will not draw cute flowers with the chalk.  I can take it.  If they are too rotten, they will be banned.  Not going to spend too much time stressing about wild children.
Yesterday an eighth grade girl discovered my shop.  She was SUPER excited.  She has not lived in our town very long.  She lived in Detroit before.  Imagine what a great change for her.  She was in a bad area of Detroit.  Now she is in our quaint village.  She likes bubble gum.  She came in several times and kept buying gum.  This afternoon she came in again.  I was doing something at the time.  Not give her 100% of my attention.  She sat down, started coloring, and talking.  She likes to talk.  She rambled on for a bit about her family.  Out of nowhere she says.  People think there are only two kids in my family.  There are really five.  Two brothers still live in Michigan.  My one sister is crazy.   Really, crazy.  She threatened to kill me a few times.  She got sent to a mental hospital.  I said, I'm sorry.  That is sad.  She said her sister was sent away two years ago.  She is bi-polar and will not take her medications.  She does not know where she is now.  (My worst nightmare.)  Her parents do not talk about her.
Her friend showed up about that time.  They got their candy and were on their way.  She said she wants to use Coco's as her meeting place.  I am good with that. 
I am working on fliers for the shop.  My new friend that works at The Paper is doing the actual graphic design part of it.  She showed me samples.  I showed her pictures I want to use.  Today she came back with the first draft.  I am VERY happy.  A couple of tweeks and it will go to print.  I will put them at some businesses around town.  I hope that will bring more tourists in.
My word for the year is trust.  I think Faith goes along with that as a nice companion word. 
Happy Easter My Friends!