My Lemonade Stand
By Tenzin Womatsang
Today is the day, we started our lemonade stand. While my dad had an online meeting something related to his work, I went about preparing to make the cookies that to go with the Lemonade.
You may wondering how I made my cookies, did my dad or mom help? Absolutely not, it is all by myself. Well, here is the step by step instructions on making the cookies using my own creativity and imagination.
First, I got my cake mixers out and started by pouring the vanilla cake mix into a bowl. Next I did the same thing with my chocolate cake mix. I went into the kitchen and opened my fridge and grabbed my half and half milk carton.
Next, I took 4 eggs out of our fridge. I got two bowls from my top cupboards, and started cracking two eggs in 1 bowl. I made sure not to crack eggshells in the bowl or else it would taste yucky like eating a sticky sock dipped in dirty mud.
After I finished cracking up all my eggs, I ran as fast as a cheetah to go snatch a spoon from the kitchen. With my spoon, I mixed up in my first bowl my eggs with a gentle circular movement but with my second bowl I gave it a real hard beating like in a boxing competition.
Once my two bowls were all mixed up with no yolk left, I poured the first bowl in my vanilla cake batter, then with my second bowl I poured my eggs in to my chocolate cake batter. Can you guess what’s next? If you guessed right, I took my light green whisk out and red spatula!!!
With my whisk I started mixing in circular pattern in my vanilla and chocolate cake mix, once it was fully dissolved I took out my spatula and scooped my cake mix and threw it back down. I did it few more times.
Because I wanted to make sure, there was no left over batter down below. I added ¼ cup of milk into both cake mix. I mixed it thoroughly till it was soft and smooth. With that finally I have put it in the oven for 15 minutes, and then it was all ready,
I took one zip lock bag and filled it up with one with vanilla barter, then I did the same thing with my second zip lock bag with chocolate batter. I took out a long rectangle piece of parchment paper and put it on my baking sheet.
I cut the end piece of the zip lock bags so I could squeeze out batter like icing. I started by squeezing out vanilla icing on to the parchment paper in a circular form, then I did this again but in different shapes like hearts or smile faces. Then I repeated the same step with my chocolate batter. After that was done, I placed the parchment paper onto the oven and closed the door and set the time to 15 mins on 350 f.
Once the timer turned off, I checked to see if the cookies were cooled off. Once I checked to see if it was cool.
I got containers in which I started placing the cookies inside.
Meanwhile, I got some plastic cups, straws, and my poster for sales advertising, napkins, table cloth, and a table ready for the Lemonade stand.
Thankfully, my father finished his meeting and came downstairs to help me to carry the things to the venue. One thing I like about him, is that he really allow us to do things by ourselves. He also like us to take initiative and be creative in what we do. He thinks that letting us to do things, will make us more independent and that we learn to become more self-responsible. But I want to be in charge, and he doesn’t interfere in that. However, my mom has her own way of handling us, she has the most healing hand. She is extremely well organized and a perfectionist. She was hesitating, if the putting up the lemonade stand was the right thing in this time of Covid-19 Delta variant surging, however she relented at the last.
But I am always thankful to my dad for doing the heavy lifting in all the things we do. He carried the table for the lemonade stand to help us set up. He poured all ice in the big jug, and then the lemonade.
I directed to put the table right in front of the pool.
Business Was Booming:
It was a hot day, the temperature was well over 90 F, and there are a quite number of people including kids in the swimming pool. Our main target customers for the lemonade stand is for those people coming and leaving the swimming pool.
Once we set up the table, and laid out the cookies, I have my younger sister Karma , who is extremely energetic and the perfect sale person, started to draw customers to our table, by calling out and explaining to people, there is a lemonade stand.
She is joined by two young little brothers, they are our friends and neighbors. They are the cutest and unabashed and unreserved in directing customers to the stand. And very good sale person too.
So I was standing at the table and collecting money and handing out cookies and lemonade they make the sales pitch to whoever passes by.
Our first customer was a very kind person in a car. Seeing us running a brisk business and so with so much excitement, he gave us 20$, and said it is a donation for our stand, even though we didn’t ask for it. We want to shout out to him, and say thank you for that encouragement.
Our salesperson walked around our neighborhood and doing door dash and knocking the doors. They take order and then deliver the items.
Each time, we managed to make a sale, we are so excited and felt elated. People are coming to our table nonstop and our business was booming. My cash box is overflowing with money!!!
Meanwhile, my dad was having his own time. He was swimming in the pool without paying any attention to us. But the dad of our little sales person was kind enough to sit by the side and looking after us. So having an adult around us was reassuring.
Thus we had a successful lemonade stand sale, and we sold our freshly made lemonade like a hotcake and our cookies was in high demand too.
After several hours of running the business, we finally wrapped up and closed our business. My dad then stopped by after swimming to his heart’s content. and along with the dad of our little children, helped to clean up, and carrying few things back to the house.
I was overwhelmed by everyone’s support and by the success of the stand, so I wanted share the profit, the kind Dad asked me to keep the lion’s share, so anyway I happily gave away 20$ to my two little employees and I earned 50$ in total and the kid and the dad all was happy.
This is the story of my lemonade stand.
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