I spent the day baking cookies to be shipped to MD. The order consisted of a dozen each of chocolate -chip, sugar butter and oatmeal raisin cookies. I could make these in my sleep if I ever needed too. I perfected all of these recipes after high school when I owned and operated Cookies-A-Plenty. I guess you can see that I have had the entrepreneurial bug most of my life. I also operated Cookin' with Kids out of my mother's kitchen. You see way back in the early 90's I was baking up a storm and teaching kids how to cook and bake. If only someone had told me then to follow my passion and use my talent of baking to better the world (um I think my mom told me to but who listens to their mom in their late teens and early 20's, luv ya Mamacita!). No regrets though, the last 15 years have been an awesome journey and honestly I would not have been lead to Harmony if I had not had the experiences that I had at Rich Products, Campbell's Soup and Heinz. These companies were an awesome training ground for me to acquire skills, network and develop the confidence that I needed to pursue my dream. I am most grateful for my time at PPI, a division of Heinz. After all it is PPI that brought me and the fam back to the midwest. The people were also genuinely good (mostly). Though my time there was VERY trying(it nearly killed me), it made me into a tougher cookie than I already was. I met Mo& JT (my big bro and sis), Tanja P(my sistafriend in Nashville and the best person I even managed), Maria M(my jewish sistafriend who I shared many tears and projects with), Mossie B (the granny of PPI who gives the best hugs) and of course the ladies in the lab. Without them I would not be experiencing Harmony so soon. I also got a glimpse of who I could become if I continued to defer my dream, I need not mention names. Anywho, I am ready to close that chapter of my life and move on. My time at PPI-Heinz was HELL but mainly a blessing b/c now I know what Harmony truly is. Until tomorrow, Peace.
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