Taking It To The Streets

Fun Laurie '09 made an appearance on Friday.

The boys have jumped at the opportunity to ask if they could operate their very own Lemonade Stand each and every time our local radio station mentioned it...4 and 5 times daily.

Because we found ourselves with 2 extra cases of Minute Maid Lemonade taking up space in our garage AND I saw the opportunity to get major FunMom credit, W and I headed to Target to purchase the needed supplies. That consisted of posterboard.



With our sign made and lemonade icing down in the fridge, I thought we were good to go. If it was just lame enough, they'd never want to host their own lemonade stand again. Yes, I did just say that outloud.

Um...not quite. Enter sales-and-marketing extraordinaire, Daddy, saying something about not doing a job half-way. Dern. Who even invited him?

It wasn't enough to find a high traffic area, we must find a neighbor selling the wares and squat on their property, because that's where the real traffic is. And if this didn't prove fruitful, we would then take our lemonade stand on the road, via the rolling cooler.


Mobile was the way to go, baby. That is when the real magic happened. That was also when we found a box of Hot Wheels cars that we just had to have....because my gameroom doesn't already resemble a used car lot.

Lemonade Day '09 was a memory worth making. Thanks to Mrs. Cindy S. for being gracious enough to host our grassroots-effort-turned-mobile-marketing-lemonade stand. Not only did we pulled in a cool $11, the boys got to practice important life skills like looking an adult in the eye and asking them to support a worthy cause and I got major snaps for not only letting them do the stand but eating crow after the success of Daddy's input.

Can I commit to repeating this little adventure in 2010? In the words of Bon Qui Qui, "Don't get crazy."