Lemonade Stand

You know, I love watching my kids come up with ideas of things to do. However, when it involves me, sometimes I just want to shoot their so called ideas down. During the summer, London, like every kid, wanted to do a lemonade stand. I kept putting it off and putting it off and creating one excuse after another. Well, I ran out of excuses and the possibility of sunny days. So our neighbor down the street was having a garage sale last weekend and we asked if we could come down and profit from her crowd. We took 2 pitchers down, one grape and one lemonade. Miss Betty (neighbor who was having the garage sale) always watches out for our family and is constantly giving without expecting anything in return. But she gave the girls some crackers to sell with the lemonade and told them to keep the money. London was so excited about that. We started out with $2 in change, and came home with $8.50 so they were thrilled that they each got $3.25. Wow! Wouldn't that be nice if we could get excited about that amount of money, that just might buy us a gallon of gas. Because I had to keep running back and forth between the houses, Betty and other neighbors helped the girls if they needed it. Thank goodness for great neighbors. This was actually a fun time and an opportunity to put London's math skills that she has been learning about in school to good use. Betty's husband took these pictures of the girls. Thanks to him for capturing their first lemonade stand moments. Laurel, one of London's best friends joined in on the action a little later and I think that is when London really started to have fun. It turned out to be a beautiful day and on top of making a little money, they got to take the sombrero hats home from the garage sale. YEA!! Brooklyn actually convinced Betty that she didn't want the hat and got her to give her a bell instead. I don't know which is worse, the constant ringing or the huge hats. Oh well, at least they had fun and can stop pestering me about having a lemonade stand for another year.