Summer + Youth = Lots of FUN!

When I was a child the idea of having a lemonade stand or riding my bike to a friend's house was very impracticable as I lived in the country where houses were few and far between, not to mention the road we lived on had a speed limit of 45 or something like that. I am not saying that I was disadvantaged as a child because growing up in the country had lots of other advantages. It's just that a lemonade stand or visiting my friends on my bike wasn't one of them. So with all of that said, the point of this blog was to tell you about how being young in the summer and living in a suburban area can be lots of fun! Our friends, James and Shannon, moved in our subdivision this summer. We knew them already because Audrey and their eldest child, Miah, were in second grade together and made friends right away. The other siblings and the moms followed suit very quickly. It is really fun to have kids in the neighborhood that are both of our children's ages. We have enjoyed riding our bikes to their house for playdates, having them over to our house and meeting them at the pool to cool off from the Florida heat. Yesterday we added to our list of fun with a sidewalk lemonade stand. We joined forces with Shannon and her three children to run a lemonade stand in front of our house. We live on the corner at the front of the subdivision so the plan was that our location would get lots of traffic. We made lemonade, chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies, Rice Krispy treats and had ice pops for the stand. Everything was a quarter except for the RK treats which were 50 cents becuase they were HUGE. Our motto was "Not everything is subject to inflation." Due to the extreme heat and bright sunshine, we did set up our white party tent for some shade. The girls waved signs at the corner and yelled, "Lemonade!" It was really cute to see Claire (who is 3) getting into the whole experience. She was yelling "Lemonade! Ice Cold Lemonade! Come get your lemonade!" She sounded a lot like the guys selling hot dogs at baseball games. It was so very sweet. We were set up from 4:45 until 7:00. The total profit was a surprising $44 which we spilt 50/50 with our friends. Not bad for our first lemonade stand! ** A interesting sidenote is that it was everyone in the group's first lemonade stand except Audrey, who had a stand with her friend Sarah at the beginning of the summer at Sarah's house. ** Even though we drank quite a bit of our product (it was really HOT!), we did really well and had LOTS of FUN!!!