With an overload of ambition, a woman from Washington state scrabbled together tons of different kinds of beads, three dresses, and three different fabrics; dedicating a total of 379 hours to sew her own wedding dress. Chelsea Komm, 33, from East Wenatchee, was going to marry her fiance, Chase Hodge, 35, in August 2020. However, due to the pandemic, the wedding was canceled and their life was put on pause. During that time, Komm had to quit her permanent cosmetics and waitressing jobs to care for the five children that she and Hodge share between them as her fiance—an engineer who works on crab boats and hovercrafts and travels 6 to 10 months out of the year—was out for work. Due to the pandemic, the homeschooling mom found herself buried under a mountain of responsibilities that she was trying to juggle, and was lost to depression for a time. “I had zero …