Millie’s Moonstone

Today I'm talking with Angela at Millie’s Moonstone.

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00:29 Share it with a friend or leave a comment. Thank you. Now I'm talking with Angela at Millie's Moonstone. I love that name so much. Good morning, Angela, how are you? Good morning, I'm fine, how are you? I'm good, how's the weather in where you are? It's actually a beautiful day today. Yeah, and I forget where you are, sorry. I'm in Southwestern PA, like close to Uniontown, Pittsburgh area. Okay, yep. You told me a message and then I closed it and I forgot to make an order in my brain, sorry.

00:59 That's all it is going to snow in Minnesota tonight. That's where I am. Well, I actually love snow. So I'm the, like the only weirdo around here that's like missing this thing. Yeah. Well, it wouldn't be unusual. I wouldn't be so excited except that last winter we got maybe six inches total for the season. And this winter we've gotten maybe six inches and they're saying three to five tonight. So.

01:24 It would be really nice to get the last hurrah done, have it be pretty, and then just roll into springtime. I would be so excited about that. Right. I love the changes of the season, but we just don't seem to have winters like we used to anymore. As you'll find out through this, I'm very old fashioned for my age, so I miss the old times and always having snow on the ground all winter. Yeah. Somebody called it Grandma Cor to me the other day. Yeah.

01:53 At first I was like, you know, I'm 55, I'm a grandma. I don't know how comfortable I am with grandma core, but it's okay. I decided it was very cute. Yeah, like I'm still like fun and immature in a sense, but like I just, when it comes to like the values and the gardening and you know, things like that, it just, that's always been like super important to me and stayed with me.

02:22 I'm kind of surprised nobody's called it nature core yet, but maybe they'll start doing that too. I dig that. Nature core. That way it's not grandma core, it's not kid core, it's not an age specific thing. It's just an everyday thing. Okay. So everybody stop calling it grandma core, call it nature core. We'll start again. All right. Millicore. Yes, exactly. Okay. So I'm assuming that your grandma had a lot to do with your...

02:49 take on all this. So you named your business after her. Yes. So growing up, she lived walking distance from me. So that was, you know, super nice. And we were super close. She she always just had a way of like how everything is just so busy now and everybody's on their phones and just, you know, like busy working for corporations and different things. But like when you were at grandma's house, it was like you were at a pot like you were almost on vacation.

03:19 Um, she did like Sunday dinners every Sunday. Um, she would make a soup we called Sunday soup, but it's actually like an old hunky soup recipe, um, that was passed down like generations. Um, you know, we didn't always have that. She had other things, but you know, everybody was always welcome at her house, um, a lot of homemade cooking and, you know, gatherings. So.

03:46 I always wanted to be like her and be that type of person. And, you know, there was, like I said, like that always sense of pausing and not to get your thoughts and, you know, identify with people and yourself versus just being so busy and on the go. So that's something I really miss about her. Yeah. My husband's grandma was Grandma Kyle. My husband's name is Kyle.

04:16 the family surname. So if Kyle has his family surname, he would be Kyle Kyle, which wouldn't work. But she was Grandma Kyle to everybody, but to people who actually spent time at her house and to people who spent time at her house, she was Ma. M-A. Ma. And my husband told me the story and I was like, that is so sweet. And everyone was welcome to come.

04:44 to her house and sit down and have a cup of something and talk. And I liken her to the town therapist because she would listen to anyone. Right. So I think your grandma and my husband's grandma probably have a lot in common. Yeah, sounds like it. And she had like a