That’s All – Our Story
Welcome to “That’s All”. We hope that everyone who reads our cards will laugh out loud because that’s the reason they were created. Let’s be realistic, the economy is horrible. Combine that with everything else going on in our every day lives. To laugh out-loud feels great.
We started writing these cards when I had to stay with my sister in the hospital to help with her ovarian cancer. She was very sick and uncomfortable. I would sleep on the couch in her room every night because our family wanted her to know that we would never allow her to go through this alone. Over the months we would take turns and this was my time.
We were in the hospital a couple of times for 5 -10 days, so we became close with the nursing staff. Late at night the nurses would line up outside our hospital room and I would tell them their fortunes from a card and book set I found at the mall. My sister would lie in her bed shaking her head that she could not believe what I was doing and smile.
I couldn’t control which cards the nurses would choose nor could I manipulate their corresponding fortunes in the book. I would read these awful things that would happen to them and then look at my sister with a look of horror. She would then turn the fortune around and put a positive spin on it. I would smile, inside feeling incredibly grateful for her tact, turn to the nurse, and say, “That’s all”. Then they would laugh. Sometimes, I’d be reading fortunes at the nurse’s station until 5:00 am.
My sister and I started using “That’s all” after everything we said. “You have cancer”. “That’s all”. For some reason, under the stress of her situation we found this to be really funny. An odd thing to laugh about, but funny.
And that’s when it happened. In the cancer wing, in a room right above the nursery, on the maternity floor below, “That’s All” greeting cards were born.
Laugh every day.
That’s all.
Karen Kogan Rosenzweig
That’s All, LLC
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