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It's been just over a year since EBONY.com last chatted with“Miss Robbie” Montgomery, the 72-year-old restaurateurandstar of OWN's hitdocuseriesWelcome to Sweetie Pie’s. Now in its thirdseason, the NAACP Image Award-winning show premiered with its highest ratings canada goose deals yet and follows the matriarch and her clan – son and business partner Tim Norman, nephew “L’il canada goose coats on sale Charles” Crenchaw, Tim’s canada goose store fiancée Jenae Wallick and their baby boy, TJ—as they balance love, Canada Goose Online family and their famous St. Louis soul food chain.If three restaurants and a hit show aren’t enough to whet your appetite for Montgomery family values, soon HarperCollins will publish a ‘Sweetie Pie’s’ cookbook featuring delicious canada goose replica deep South dishes with a side of humorous stories and advice. The family also just released a song written by Tim and featuring Miss Robbie's vocals called, "Do the Sweetie Pie," Canada Goose online complete with a music video and line dance. EBONY.com caught up with the whole fun-loving family as they celebrated another great season and a future full of promise.EBONY: With so much family in the mix, Canada Goose Jackets what’s a typical day like in the restaurant?TIM NORMAN:Me and moms get in two or three arguments a day, Charles shows up late, and if he doesn’t show up late he shows up on time, but disappears somewhere during the day andJenaeyells at me for various things.EBONY: What are the arguments usually about?ROBBIE MONTGOMERY:Tim thinks he knows more than I do, [and] he tries to tell me what to do. He’s got a million ideas, and because I don’t think they’re all great, he wants to go back and forth with me about them. In the end, we end up agreeing to try some of his ideas, but not all of them ‘cause mom knows best.CHARLES CRENCHAW:Which is why they end up arguing the next day, ‘cause the other path that didn’t get tried has to get tried that day. They go back and forth all Canada Goose Parka the time.JENAE WALLICK:And then there’s the [idea] Tim sneaks in without https://www.gestiontb.ca saying anything to Mom about, so when he gets those over that’s when the trouble really starts.TN:I call that a Nike: I “just do it”!RM:And that pisses me canadian goose jacket off!EBONY:Janae, how is it just being in the mix of all this all the time?JW:I definitely didn’t sign up for this! I met Tim in the restaurant when he was really just working the register. I had no clue who he was. I met him when I came on a Sunday after church. When he first came up with this idea [about pitching the show], I was a little bit stand-offish to it, but I just figured whatever I could do to support him I wasgonnado it. So that’s how I buy canada goose jacket cheap ended up here.EBONY:With three restaurants in St. Louis, are you looking to build more in other cities canada goose or states?CC:At one point in time, we dowannamake it to where everybody can have their own restaurant. You know, there’s one in Texas, there’s one in California, there’s one in New York—so I run one, Tim runs one, Aunt Robbie runs Canada Goose Outlet one, Aunt Linda…but I haven’t told anyone this yet.EBONY: canada goose black friday sale So this is one of those “Nike” moments.CC:Yup! Justgonnado it.EBONY: Is it automatic canada goose clearance that every [family member] gets to take part in the business now?RM:As far as I’m concerned, when they’re born [into the family] that’s their job: they go into the business.CC:I’ve been [at the restaurant] since I was 14.RM:And then the other kids are there bagging [food] at seven, eight Canada Goose Coats On Sale and nine.JW:When Tim and canada goose outlet I first got together, I canada goose coats was on the register, and I was bagging! And I had a full-time job.EBONY: Since you’re at the restaurant cooking all day, every day, does that mean you cook again when you get Canada Goose sale home?RM:No! It’s all take-out.TN:If you go to her house, my house, or buy canada goose jacket anybody’s house, there’s no food — no lunch meat, no cereal; it’s all take-out boxes.CC:If you come to my house, there might be some cereal. But it’s probably old because we eat out 24/7—breakfast, lunch and dinner.EBONY: Although the restaurant business is cheap Canada Goose your life now, Miss Robbie, you just recorded this new song, "Do the Sweetie Pie." Do you miss your life singing back-up for Tina Turner as an “Ikette,” and performing canada goose clearance sale all over the world?RM:I do miss it, [but] Ikindarelate it to the restaurant. Here, I’m trying to pick what foods [people] like; when I was singing I was trying to pick what song the audience [would] like. It’s the same thing to me: making people happy.CatchWelcome to Sweetie Pie'severy Saturday at 9/8c only on OWN.