Water, Lemonade and VBS

Bella had vacation bible school this week at the church where she goes to preschool. It was great for her to have some structure for a few days plus have a lot of fun! (She gets a little funny acting after being away from other kids and organized activities too long.) As part of VBS the kids had a mission project to collect $5- a dollar a day- to help build a water well in a country where children are forced to carry huge jugs for hours just to get dirty water for their drinking. This is something Randy and I are familiar with because our own church made a similar effort educating families on facts and ways to help about a year and a half ago. It was something we felt strongly about and had even started making plans with our bible study group to work on a project- unfortunately the plans fell through. Anyway, it was neat to have Bella so interested in something we also have a heart for. She kept talking to us each night at dinner and eventually she decided she wanted to do a lemonade stand to raise her five dollars. It was Thursday night, the money was due Friday and we had no lemons. Randy ran into Harris Teeter that afternoon to pick up something and decided to grab some lemons just in case. He and Bella came back to the car asking how much lemonade I could make with five lemons. I told them not much but she could sell what we could make! It was 5pm mind you but thought maybe we could attract a few customers driving home from work. She got set up and I went inside for just a minute and she got her first customer. He gave her $5 and didn't care what she was raising it for. Ha! A few minutes later she had a couple more customers and then a couple more and our small pitcher was gone. She raised $11. Earlier this year she had asked if she could sell lemonade to get money for our vacation this summer and we told her she could, but after she finished the lemonade stand we asked her if she wanted to save any for that and she wanted to give it all to the water effort. It was precious. Anyway, that night Randy mentioned what she was doing to his men's bible study and one of the guys gave another $5. She got to give $16 and some change and she was thrilled!



(not sure what this pose is about but it is showing up more and more these days. ugh.)