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ONLINE STORE UPDATES:

WE ARE OPEN!!!

Brick and Mortar:

We are now in the area of Fort Hood Texas, Killeen and Harker Heights. We hope to have a brick and mortar in the future, however, at this time - we have a gorgeous showroom for appointment only visits. Please email mami@mamisandpapis.com for information and to schedule your private shopping experience.

FAMILY UPDATES:

We love our M&P family and we love our three kiddos. We are learning to delicately balance our time and priorities. We are truly amazed at how fast our kiddos are growing! Spending time with them is the greatest joy of our lives and we are cherishing every second. Allysium is nine, Antonio is five and Alejandro is now our big one year old!!!

ALL THE EXTRAS:

Shipping times and email response times may take 24-72 hours. We have been blessed by some of the most caring and amazing customer family anywhere!!! We want you to know that we will work very very very hard for you!

We have just had to step back a bit and zone in on family time. As a WAHFamily --- we have realized one thing about having a full time military career, a fabulous store with awesome customer family, and three kiddos --- we realized time has to be prioritized carefully.

We are hard workers, we will absolutely do our best to take care of you.... we just need a little time to do it right and give you 100% attention when we are answering your emails and packing up your fluffy mail. We are TRULY grateful by your patience and understanding!!!

We realize... YOU GET IT!!! You get the kiddos spills, tummy aches, mom "I need you's" and Mom can you read me a book. You understand the honey where are my socks, what's for breakfast, lunch, dinner and 27 snacks (kids and hubby), the car needs an oil change, did you pay that bill and other day to day life "little things". Thank you for letting us keep our family passion -- Mami's & Papi's --- going strong and our kiddos smiling!!!

CONSULTANT PROGRAM UPDATES:

As the testing phase of the consultant program is nearing the end, Mami's & Papi's has had to make a final decision about the program as a whole.

While the selling and ordering part could be handled easily by a new consultant only site - the logistical end of it is almost an impossibility.

The CPA along with our lawyer have said that it is a logistical nightmare to ensure that everything is done legally. Each state has their own interpretation of private contractor, consultant, and each state has their own home sales permits and laws. Not to mention the federal tax implications.

We have also discovered that some states require state insurance, liability and workers comp for individuals working under a company umbrella, even as consultants.

Although the potential for an amazing program is there - the potential for things to go wrong due to paperwork and governmental regulations is also apparent. The time consumption of the paperwork and logistical side are more than we could have ever imagined.

We have never been ones to quit, and in fact it is very hard for us to give up a program we have dreamed about since the beginning of M&P's, but this dream has so much red tape that it cannot be managed by a small business like ours at this time. We are going to have to leave this dream to the "big guys"… until later.

We want to extend a huge thank you for giving us the opportunity to work with you and having great patience with us while we tested the program with 5 consultants in several states.

Please send a private message to mami@mamisandpapis.com with any concerns and questions. We hope to begin a referral program that will provide store credit in lieu of the consultant program. It's not as amazing as a consultant program - but it will let families earn some money to by their "extra's". Thank you so much for your interest. We had hoped that things would go smoothly, but unfortunately, the “regulation nation” is very hard on small businesses.

With lots of love,

Mami & Papi

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