Monday, August 24, 2015

Clean Slates and The Lemonade Stand

There's something really wonderful about a fresh start.  As I sent my sweet girls off to school today I remembered always loving that feeling every year.  New notebooks, new pencils, new friends, new teacher...new beginnings.  So, while my Type A brain has EVERY INTENTION of going back and catching this home sweet blog up one day, I'm giving myself permission to do the same.  Start fresh from the here and now vs. playing catch up and trying to somehow someday get back to the present!  So here goes...

Summer has come to an end and I find myself wanting to emphasize that thought with AMEN!  I have loved the long lazy days and memories we've made...I've also wanted to run away and join the circus.  I simply cannot solve one.more.argument.  But we did go out with a bang!  The girls had been begging all Summer for us to do a lemonade stand and with school starting Monday there was no time like the present so Saturday it was!  They busted out markers and we went to work...



A few hours later the "Lemon Heads" were up and running!
They had the best time and managed to entice quite a few patrons with their smooth moves...




They also had some help from a very cute little assistant...


Carter even managed to flag down a truck driver!


I never dreamed they would stick with it for over 5 hours!  They were very proud of their $80 profit.  I told Carter that it would be just fine for her to keep an extra $10 because she had been just a little more "into" the stand than Emme but she insisted that we'd be telling this story for years and she wanted to split it fair and share because she'd always remember having cheated Emme out of that $10..and then I felt about 2 inches tall!! :)  My favorite girls in all the world!!  


And then there's this little dude...


Here's to Summers End...sun kissed kids...and clean slates!

2 comments:

Elaine said...

Yay, new post! :-). Hope you have a great start to the school year too!

A Thousand Words said...

So glad to see a post from you! There is no love like sister love, that is so sweet!

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