04/29/2026
I need to address something that happened at an event we attended this morning. I generally do not let things that people say to me bother me, they don't usually know my heart or where I am coming from but the message that I received this afternoon has just ate me up and I feel like I need to address it. I was told by this person that she discussed it with some of the other parents at the park and they all felt the way she did. This is why I feel the need to post, I need them to understand what the situation really was.
I was hired for a 1st grade field trip to serve the students at a local park today. Because of my schedule, the students all preordered and prepaid for their shaved ice so that the event was smooth and I could stay on my schedule. I was asked by a few parents if they could purchase shaved ice for themselves and siblings and I had to tell them no, that I didn't have time to serve anyone that hadn't already preordered. We were there specifically for the 1st graders and their special day.
One of the reasons I said no, was I only had a permit for this event to serve as a catered event. Meaning this would be for a group of attendees with one bill and one payment. I would not be sitting at a city park selling to the public. I was not permitted to serve anyone other than who was on that ticket...per the city.
But if I had broken the rules and told that one person yes, let me make you a snowcone not only would I had been risking my permit, guaranteed other people would have started trying to order as well and it is so hard to try to explain to another person why I could make one and not the other.
But the absolute biggest reason was because I had another commitment I needed to get to. I was already running behind and was going to Springtown to serve the kiddos and the families there that had been affected by the tornado on Sunday evening. No sponsors, just me taking my truck, with my supplies that I paid for going to love on our neighbors. Kids that haven't been to school all week and parents trying to not only take care of their current situations but also trying to keep their lives as normal as possible for the time being. So, I want to say that I am sorry that I didn't make the darn snowcone but I honestly can't. I will not apologize. I hope that if you were in that park today and you were in this conversation that I was told about that you have read this all the way through and you understand exactly what the situation was and where exactly my heart was. I will say that I might could have explained a bit more to this person but I also just returned last night around 10pm from a 9 day trip from Houston taking my little sister with Stage 3 breast cancer to MD Anderson. Thank you for taking the time to read.
XOXO~Tonya