Category: Family Business

My To-Do List

Originally published on July 2, 2008.

  1. Pick out 4th of July feature wines for newsletter
  2. Write newsletter
  3. Send Rich logos so he can help me make this blog prettier
  4. Feed the baby
  5. Drink wine
  6. Do updated cash flow analysis
  7. Finally sort out an actual tasting calendar
  8. Feed the baby
  9. Drink wine
  10. Unbox a bunch of corkscrews in order to meet expected picnic/tourist demand over the weekend
  11. Reorganize the basement
  12. Add the additional shelving units
  13. Pay bills
  14. Feed the baby
  15. Drink wine
  16. Don’t forget to spit
  17. Rotate bottles
  18. Dust
  19. Feed the baby

Frankly Wines’ Newest Addition

A NOTE FROM THE FUTURE: Yes, she has a name, and back then, I posted it. But these days, on the internet, she’s simply Kid#3 and gets approval on all photo posts. Except this one:

Originally published on June 6, 2008.

We used to stick Kid#3, yes, when she was a baby, in a corner of a wine shop. Now, we the closest she’ll get to that is a box at a museum in the Berkshires.

Busy week – had my third baby a week ago yesterday. Third baby, first girl. Taking a couple weeks to rest up and bond with the bambino then back to the store. Actually, I’ve already been back to the store and does it ever feel good to be moving cases around again! I’ve been pregnant since before the store opened, so I’m really looking forward to running the place without having to worry about a baby in the belly.

And always one to pimp out the kids in the name of the family business, I decked the place out in pink balloons and offered 10% off any three roses. (3 kids, 3 bottles, clever, no?)

Her brothers welcome her to the family cellar.