Anticipated Delays

I want to let my Steepster friends know that though I got all of our orders caught up as of Friday (and haven’t received any since), any future orders this week may take a while to get to you.

My father passed away today.

My dad disowned me when I was 15 and didn’t speak to me again for almost 20 years. He has since tried to re-connect with me, but frankly it seemed like too little, too late. A long time ago, I decided (or thought I had) that I couldn’t keep living my life to try to earn my father’s respect, but today I realized that my dream of owning a wildly successful tea business was just one more attempt to make my dad proud of me for something. Unfortunately, I’ll never have that opportunity now. I used to think that our relationship was so nebulous that when he passed away I probably wouldn’t shed a tear, but here I am, blubbering like a baby.

Anyway, I’ll be making a trip to Fort Worth to see him off, so some of your orders might take a little extra time to ship out. Thanks for understanding.