We have a great neighborhood. We live at the end of a large culd-a-sack that the neighborhood kids use as their second home. We have 3 young neighbor girls (sisters) that love coming out when our girls are playing. They range in age from 8 to 13. They came over on Sunday to ask Naomi and Daphne if they wanted to help them with a lemonade stand they were going to do on Monday. My girls don't care either way but I offered their help. We went out yesterday around 3:30 and joined their lemonade stand. They had also made a bunch of foam flowers they glued to painted popsicle sticks and were selling them for 10 cents a piece. They had intended to write inspirational Bible verses on each of the sticks but I think the time got away from them so they didn't get that done. They sold large red plastic cups full of homemade lemonade for 25 cents (because "we don't want it to cost people too much"). We were probably there for 15 minutes before Naomi said she was too hot and wanted to go home and play in the pool. So we headed to our yard and climbed into the pool. An hour later the neighbor girls knocked on our gate and handed me $2.50. They explained that was Naomi and Daphne's cut of their profits. Wow, how generous! First of all, they didn't help out at all. Secondly, my girls would certainly never miss the money. I invited the girls to come play in our little pool so they ran home to ask their mom. They came back ready to "swim" in our 3 inches of water and I'm pretty sure they had as much fun as my girls.
Later, I asked Naomi what she wanted to do with the money they earned from the lemonade stand. I told her she could put it in her piggy bank if she wanted but she told me she wanted to "buy more mosquito nets" with it. I'm pretty sure she has no concept of money, and she really has no use for it at this point in her life, but I was happy that she seemed to grasp the idea of buying something for others with her own money.
Here are my girls enjoying their slide into their pool.
