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14 MARCH HER
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We consider Hot Springs our home. When we go back to Mexico and visit
and when we come back, it’s like, ‘Yes, we’re home!’ Peoplehave treated us so good. Hot Springs supports us so much.It’s been good. It’s why we are who we are.
and the twins Isabella and Benjamin. It’s not the same as when we worked for somebody before,” she said. “We couldn’t take our kids there, but that’s what we can do now. When we decided to open a business and that was a prize that you could have your kids here. It was like why not?
“I didn’t get to enjoy my kids — Anna Marie and Jose — as much as what we’re doing with the twins ... (The twins) are 13 now and we’ve been here for 16 years. Their first four years, they were here all of the time. That’s a benefit. When they were little, we’d bring them here and everybody would hold them until they were ready to go to school. And we had a house in the back so I could walk and get there, do something for them and come back. But being a mom and an owner, it’s hard.”
She also mentioned that all of her children lend a hand to the family business.
“I want to teach them how to be one of the workers, not one of the owner’s kids,” she noted. “So Anna worked with us — Jose (Jr.) works with us now — but she worked through high school on weekends and she was a hostess, cleaning tables, and waited on tables sometimes. They do have to do it one time. It’s gonna be not too far away from now that (the twins) will have to start helping out.
“They say, ‘Can I have this? Can I have that?’ They ask for everything or sometimes, they even say, ‘You spend too much time at the restaurant.’ I have to say, everything comes from the restaurant. Everything you do, everything you’re able to wear, to spend. All of that. So now it’s like we have to teach them how to work. It’s about that time and they know it.”
14 March/April 2020 ¯ HER MAGAZINE