Little Entrepreneur

Last Saturday Allison asked if she could have a lemonade stand outside.  She'd already made the pitcher of lemonade . . . "all by herself," she said.  "Scary," I thought to myself, but "SURE!" is all I said.  "Why not?"  Secretly, I didn't think she'd sell anything, because she just sat in our driveway, not on a street corner where she' d be better seen.  And you always worry that they'll be disappointed when no one comes to buy their lemonade . . . ya know? 

Well, she promptly set it all up and sat down.  Within a MINUTE, neighbor kids were outside buying her lemonade! I couldn't believe it!  After a little while, I went outside to check on her and saw that she was charging $1 for a small cup of lemonade!  And when I say small, I mean, she was using those colorful "kid cups" from IKEA.  I realized that her concept of money is not very developed and I should've guided her on this, but hey!  Kids were buying it! So I didn't say anything.  What I DID say was to be sure that each person got their OWN glass, and once it was used, to put in down on the driveway so it didn't get RE-USED.  (I had flashbacks from my own childhood lemonade stands, where we had ONE cup, and everyone drank from the same glass!!!  hee hee.  Oh, those were the days)

Well, a little while later, I went outside again to check on her and to my AMAZEMENT she had made 7 dollars!!!  By now her pitcher of lemonade was running low, so what did she do?  Add more powdered lemonade, of course.  Not more WATER, mind you.  Just more POWDER.  I had to smile when I went to put that pitcher in the dishwasher the other day.  Inside the bottom of of the pitcher was a THICK layer of crystalized lemonade powder mix.  I can only imagine how concentrated that lemonade must have been towards the end!  

SO FUNNY!!