Lindsay and Charbel Moussi are the brand new homeowners of White Sails Bakery and Deli in Tantallon, N.S., but it surely was a tragedy that led them there.
Seven months in the past, their lives have been turned the other way up after the loss of life of their four-year-old daughter, Kennedy.
She had a historical past of seizures and died all of a sudden. The household mentioned the precise explanation for her loss of life remains to be below evaluation.
Lindsay says it was Kennedy’s love for baking that impressed them to strategy the earlier homeowners of White Sails and ask to purchase their enterprise.
“[Kennedy] was actually the largest ball of vitality,” Lindsay mentioned. “She beloved everyone, and she or he beloved baking.”
Now below their possession, the Moussis have chosen to maintain lots of the identical recipes that group members know and love. However they’re additionally discovering methods to honour their late daughter.
Like Kennedy’s Confetti Squares, considered one of Kennedy’s favorite marshmallow and chocolate treats that she used to assist bake along with her mother and grandmother.
One greenback from each six-pack offered is being donated to Sherbrooke Lake Camp in Franey Nook, N.S., which Kennedy was trying ahead to attending for the primary time this summer time.
The cash will assist sponsor a baby in want and assist pay for his or her camp expertise.
Together with being a baker at White Sails, Kennedy’s grandmother, Lorna Zinck Gordon, is a summer time cook dinner at Sherbrooke Lake. She says Kennedy beloved visiting her on the camp final summer time, and she or he was trying ahead to having her there this 12 months.
“Kennedy was my life,” mentioned Zinck Gordon. “She was simply essentially the most lovely human ever to stroll this earth.”
Together with assist from household, Lindsay says that encouragement from the group has been useful in getting them via this troublesome time.
“The assist has simply been very overwhelming, and we actually admire it,” mentioned Lindsay.
“As quickly as you stroll via that door as a buyer, you’re not a buyer. We think about you household.”
Not solely are Lindsay and Charbel grieving the lack of their daughter and operating a brand new enterprise, however in addition they have two younger boys — seventeen-month-old Atticus and three-month-old Ameer.
The truth is, the Moussis introduced Lindsay’s being pregnant with Ameer simply someday earlier than Kennedy’s passing.
They are saying that Kennedy couldn’t wait to welcome her second child brother.
“She was simply so pure at being a giant sister,” mentioned Lindsay. “There was no jealousy, no anger. It was solely pure love. She was so excited.”
Birthday celebrations
On June 25, what would have been Kennedy’s fifth birthday, the Moussis are internet hosting a barbecue celebration at White Sails.
All proceeds from the occasion will go towards the Sherbrooke Lake Camp sponsorship, and to the Estabrooks Group Corridor, which gives monetary help to 2 or three native households across the holidays.
They will even be accepting donations of unopened toys for these households.
They are saying everyone seems to be welcome and inspired to return and have a good time Kennedy’s life.
“So that is my reminder to everyone that it prices nothing to be form. And we simply thank everyone who walks via these doorways,” mentioned Lindsay.
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