On July 9th Abby ran a very successful lemonade stand for a great cause!! She had been wanting to do a lemonade stand, so I decided to let her only if all money made went to Brooklyn's Playground. Our community has been raising money to build an all inclusive playground for children of ALL abilities. It is named after an adorable 5 year old girl in our community who has spinal bifida. This little girl's parent have been amazing in this effort to raise money for this playground, not just for their child, but all children. To learn more visit brooklynsplayground.org.
So, Abby had her regular lemonade, strawberry lemonade, and some cookies that her and Grandma Allen made together, and she was open for business! Aaron and I went to our cell phones and reached out to our Pocatello contacts. Between awesome family, great neighbors, and wonderful friends she did awesome. I think she lasted from 10:00 that morning till 3:oo that afternoon. We decided she is quite the sales lady (like her daddy)! Abby is not shy with our neighbors, she had no problem telling them she was having a lemonade stand and all the money would go to Brooklyn. We didn't put a price on anything just any donation was great, but Abby started telling people it was $5.00, or should would quickly count how many dollar bills someone was holding and tell them that was how much it would cost! What is so great, is Aaron's boss matched what Abby made (and a little bit more) and she ended up taking a check to Brooklyn's family for $300! I can't remember but I think Abby made about $130...? Somewhere close to that. It was overall a great experience for Abby where I had the opportunity to teach her some important lessons about service, genourosity, and love, and she got to learn about service, genourousity and love!
3 comments:
I love that you and Abby did this. Drake has actually been wanting to do something similar. Seeing how much you were able to raise is good motivation for me to help him do the same for Brooklyn's Playground. I'm excited about it!
What an amazing thing to do! That is seriously so awesome. What a great learning experience for Abby. Kids at that age are so giving. I'm sure she didn't even think twice about not keeping any of the money for herself. And that is some great profit from a lemonade stand, and for such a great cause. Way to go Amy and Abby! (And I'll take Strawberry lemonade myself... $5.00 is a bit steep, but I'd do it for Abby!) :)
oh cool! I hope lots of people donating to the playground. What a great thing for Abby to do! Good job Abby!
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