When Life Gives You Lemons...

Wednesday night, as David and I were in the beginning stages of making dinner and talking about our days, we realized that there was an awful lot of scurrying about going on.  All of a sudden there were two girls who were a flurry of excitement: "Mama!  We're making a lemonade stand!"  "Can you help us make a sign?"  "Sure, baby!  How about if I write it down and you copy it?"  "That's a great idea!"

"Oh, no!  We forgot to put a lemon on it!"

"Now, we need customers!"

"Would you like some lemonade, sir?"

"Five cents, please!"

"Thank you, daddy!"

"Yay!  Our first customer!"

Still super excited from making their very first sale, they get ready to help their next customer (me).

"Would you like some lemonade, sir?  I mean, mama!"

"Here you go!"

I have been trying to put my feelings into words about what it was like to watch them create their very first lemonade stand.  To say that we were amazed by what we were seeing is pretty much an understatement.  I don't know what the correct words would be, but I will say this; I am so completely grateful that I was able to document it with pictures.  They are some that I will indeed treasure forever.  David and I just sat back and watched, helping only when asked and taking pictures along the way.  I kept thinking to myself that I wish we lived in a bigger neighborhood so that they could set this sweet stand of theirs up and have more than just their Daddy and I as customers.  Then I found myself wishing that the grandparents lived close by so we could have called and had them stop by.  Regardless, the wonder of this moment with stay with me forever.  Watching these two sweet sisters, best friends really, hatch a plan and work together so beautifully is truly the cherry on top of the sundae that is this life.