Tseshaht entrepreneur strikes perfect balance between business and family
Melissa Holt wanted her children to experience something she and her husband had not when they were kids: getting picked up from school and coming home to the smell of fresh baked cookies.
So after the birth of her second child, their first together, Melissa gave up her position as a specimen-handling specialist at a Metro Vancouver medical lab and became a stay-at-home mom for seven years.
“My husband, Jay, was a latch-key kid,” Holt, 38, said, adding she was raised by a single mother who also couldn’t always be home for Melissa and her sister.