LEMONADE, LEMONADE!!!!!

Last summer my daughter had a lemonade stand at our home and sold enough to make about ten or fifteen dollars. She did it at a yard sale that I had. She really liked the people handing her money and realized then that there were lots of things that could be sold with lemonade, why not cookies and brownies and she decided that she would have several lemonade stands each year and that was how she would earn spending money.

Well we moved into an apartment in the winter months and therefore she was not going to be able to hold her beloved lemonade stand and yet, my little girl was sure to overcome this obstacle. Grace announced two months ago that she was ready to have a lemonade stand, unsolicited, un reminded, and unscathed by the fact that we, the Shorey's no longer lived in a house but an apartment, and therefore we could not have one at our house. Well when she made her announcement her father told her such. We cannot have a lemonade stand baby because we do not live in a house and the apartment owners don't allow us to sell things. After a moment of silent thought and intent processing, she announced, "Starla has a house, I can sell lemonade at Starla's!!!" this is a woman in our church that indeed has a house. Craig,(her dad) then laughed and said, well if you think she will let you then you can ask her, but YOU have to be the one to ask and be responsible for it. Determined to forge on with her summer business plan, she remembered and asked each day if we had yet to ask Starla and we reminded her that we were not going to. By Wednesday she no longer mentioned it and by Sunday morning I was sure she had forgotten about the entire thing and I was not going to remind her, her business, her ideas. Well as we arrived for church as we always did and walked into the sanctuary, she scoped the room and there she was, Starla, (who had been told the story by us to pre warn her and get ok) Grace spotted her and pulled me to ear shot and said, "will you come with me" I had forgotten what she was referring and stated, "For what?" she rolled her eyes and said, " to ask Starla, about lemonade?" Shocked I followed as my little businesswoman grabbed my hand and led me to ask Starla, since she had a house could she have a lemonade stand there.

So here we are the weekend has arrived and we are to sell lemonade and she has remembered and plans to make some money, she says to give some to Jesus, to save, and of course to SHOP!!! a girl after my own heart and SHE has a plan!!!:)