Thursday, July 12, 2012

Lemonade Stand


How this whole thing came about, I still don't know.  Lily asked me yesterday if she could have a Lemonade Stand.  I think she may have seen this idea on a tv show as a way to make money for toys and such?  I'm not really sure.  I couldn't do it yesterday because I was elbow-deep in laundry all day.  After I put Emilia and William down for their afternoon nap today, I thought "Okay, this may be a fun mother-daughter summer activity".  But my intent was to have this be solely for Carl's benefit.  I'm NOT a saleswoman, and in fact, selling anything makes me quite uncomfortable.  At this point, it was 2:30 pm, and I decided to print a little sign for the stand, make the lemonade, bake a couple of goodies and done. 

So all went as planned.  I told Carl to call me once he was close to the house (Lily wanted to keep it a surprise) so that I could set up the scene for him.  He was literally no more than 5 minutes from our house when I put out the table.  As I was setting up the sign, a car stops and out hops a woman looking to buy some lemonade.  I was caught totally off-guard.  Yes, I know this looks like it is for real, but really it's not.  When she asked the price, I didn't even know what to say so I thought 25 cents sounded fair.  She bought two cups and gave the kids a dollar.  Lily was over-the-moon excited with this development.  As I'm still in disbelief that we had a real customer for our "fake" lemonade stand and thinking how thankful I was that I had actually made fresh squeezed lemonade, another woman comes walking down the street toward our little stand.  I really could not believe it.  Thank goodness we brought out multiple cups. 

Part of my amazement is due to the fact that our street is a circle that does not connect to any other neighborhood, so we get very little traffic in front of our house.  I guess we have some particularly thirsty neighbors (and ones who surely are just being sweet to their young neighbors).  At this point, Carl pulls up and wonders what in the world is going on, as he was supposed to pick up the kids and head straight to the grocery store.  I couldn't even tell him the story because our neighbors wanted to stick around and chat for a while, and I thought they wouldn't really get the whole "fake" lemonade stand with very real balloons, signs, homemade lemonade, cookies and rice krispy treats.  I'm just glad that while Carl may never really understand it either, he knows that this is just me and loves me anyway.




5 comments:

Kellys said...

Very funny! Only you would have a fake lemonade stand! Now that Lily's seen the profit that can be made, I see many more stands in your future.

This still doesn't explain the "Crisby."

Tori said...

I seriously cannot stop laughing! This is hilarious and adorable and you really should do it up more often b/c it's so stinking cute! And, I always make a point of buying lemonade from any kid I see selling it, so you just never know!

Aunt Angela said...

This is so you. The whole story. I love it. And you birth some really stinky cute kids by the way.

Angela said...

stinkin' not stinky

Lindsay said...

That is the most professional looking lemonade stand ever! I'd buy some too.