July in Review: Lemonade Stand

So July was nuts.  Eli was gone a lot and I was holding down the fort, but we managed to have some good times in the midst of survival mode.  A few things are worth going back to mention, which I'll do in a a few separate posts.

First off: a 4th of July lemonade stand!

It was Caleb's idea, because he wanted to copy a Curious George episode in which that curious primate has a lemonade stand.  It was our first time attempting this feat, and we decided to combine it with our 4th of July festivities.  Our friends, the Webbers, joined us and we had a great time! 

I bought a bunch of lemons in Nairobi the weekend before, and my friend Lauren showed us how to make lemonade from scratch (which I'd never done), and we baked goodies to go along with it, and voila!  We were Lemonade Stand Ready!

Check out these cute American missionary kids!

They seriously loved doing this.  And despite spending more time playing in the yard than manning their table, they managed to make a decent amount of money - enough to finish paying for a newborn scale for the pediatric ward at the hospital!  Which was the end goal of the lemonade stand.  That, and to practice money math, and to have a good excuse to bake and eat cookies :)

I was proud of these boys.  I was proud that they had an idea, they persisted in bugging me to bring that idea to fruition, they put in the effort to squeeze all those lemons themselves, and they were totally cool with giving all the proceeds away to a good cause.

It was a pretty good way to spend the 4th of July: celebrating our passport country while supporting our ministry in this country where we currently live!