It has taken her to the Gingerbread House on Clearfield Drive where she has been the supervisor and site administrator since September.

In the past the Gingerbread House was only opened for an after-school program. Now it is a thriving preschool with 22 children enrolled, three short of the number of youngsters the facility can care for.

The road to this new role came following the publicity of the lemonade stand on Ransome Street at her home daycare business. “Facebook blew up, then there was the story. I received call after call, people wanting their children in preschool. I've always dreamed of having a preschool.”

Greene talks about Smokey.

She saw one on Franklin Street that was for lease.

Then she met Deena Ramsey, owner of the Gingerbread House, who also owns the Hodgestown Daycare.

It was a perfect match for Moseley to run a preschool that has separate programs for 1- and 2-year-old children and 3- to 5-year-old children.

It all, she said, can be traced back to the lemonade stand. “It made me feel like I was accomplishing something. People made me feel so awesome about myself. I give God all the glory. Things like this build your confidence up.”

Moseley became interested in the daycare business when her daughter, Hannah, was a baby. “I couldn't find anyone I trusted to keep her.”

Harris helps the children greet Smokey.

From that Blessed Assurance was born and she ran it for 14 years.

Moseley says the biggest difference between the Gingerbread House and her home daycare is the number of children. “It's more structured, there's more children, there's more great people helping me. It's more like a school environment.”

With the Gingerbread House, Moseley will be able to have field trips for the youngsters. Wednesday Roanoke Rapids firefighters visited and today Halifax County Forest Service Rangers Adam Greene and Chris Strickland visited to talk about wildfire prevention. “It gets them ready for kindergarten,” she said.

Moseley will take some of the things that made her home daycare successful to the Gingerbread House. “We've got a three-star rating with the state. I want it to be five stars.”

For Jennifer Harris, a teacher assistant at the facility who has just started, seeing Moseley at work serves as an inspiration to her. “She loves, loves, loves her kids. I would eventually like to be in Tammy's shoes.”

More information on the Gingerbread House may be received by calling Moseley at 252-308-0200.