The Sugar Maple Story
In 1995 while vacationing in Seaside Florida a seed was planted that would be nurtured over the coming years and would finally bloom in 2015 with my diagnosis of stage 3 breast cancer. Concerns about preserving time and strengthening family connections occupied my thoughts and I sought for ways to make the days last. I began practicing mindfulness – celebrating the everyday moments of my life. Moments like putting on my eyebrows so I would look a little normal and using the good dishes everyday for our meals. One day I had an aha moment as I reached into my grandmother’s amber glass fish candy dish to get pieces of Swedish fish candy for my grandchildren and moments from the past flashed across my mind of my grandmother and I sharing the same candy together many years earlier. I realized that that candy dish not only held candy but it held cherished memories as well and I was building those same kind of memories with my grandchildren. With that experience Sugar Maple Trading Company took full form. Using a curated selection of new, vintage and handcrafted products we are on a mission to help others develop and practice the daily habit of celebration with the hope of strengthening homes and families through a more relaxed and joyful life.