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| Tea Party |
Closing the store was inevitable. By the time we shut our doors, several other SoupMan franchises had also closed. Franchisees in PA, NY, Myrtle Beach, SC, Canada, Vermont, and Boulder, Colorado were facing the same demise as we were. Many more locations would be added to the list in the months ahead.
By Christmas 2007, we had no jobs and no money but, fortunately, we did have friends. You really do find out who your friends are when you're down and out. The Salvation Army was the only institution that provided aid and kept us from living under the bridge. We not on received help but made friends in the process.
My friend Susan (from high school) and her husband Allen gave us a gift card to a local super market and forty dollars to buy our grand-daughter a Christmas present. We cooked an old fashioned New Orleans style Christmas dinner and Susan, Allen, their daughter Becca and her husband joined our family in sharing this meal. It would be the last holiday spent in our home in Colorado Springs but it was one of the best and most memorable.
Two months later David was hired by Coors and we moved to Golden, Colorado. I got a job in nearby Evergreen. Financial recovery would begin but healing from the emotional toll would take much more time.
