Smoothie Anyone?

Ammon & Hunter enjoy a Berry Smoothie

Since I was posting about Ammon in the kitchen, I was reminded of a memorable story about him from last year.

First some background: He LOVES to make smoothies! He has been diligently creating recipes for a few years now. He has an entire notebook filled with smoothie recipes that he invented and wants to publish. (In looking at some of them, many of the quantities are too big to fit in any blender, but there are some creative flavor combinations.) His 4th grade teacher confiscated his "Smoothie Recipes" notebook a few times due to it distracting him from his school work. I finally had to promise her he wouldn't bring it to school anymore.

Ammon also LOVES money! So being the entrepreneur he is, he decided to mingle his two passions and sell smoothie recipes door-to-door in the neighborhood. He enlisted some of the neighborhood friends too, as well as his little sister. I didn't realize what they were doing until they had earned about $17. I was a little embarrassed that they were selling torn scraps of paper with illegible handwritten "recipes." We have some generous neighbors that took pity on them! I cracked up when I caught them - his little sister with a backpack full of "smoothie recipes" and money, riding on her bike door-to-door. Maybe she had the best luck at convincing the customers to actually invest in their product.

My husband Marc is partly to blame, because he had been watching the "Big Idea with Donny Deutch" and instilled a "you can do anything if you set your mind to it" attitude about business. Which is not a bad thing, but where does good business cross the line with being a bad neighbor?

So I tried to explain that it wasn't neighborly to sell things to the neighbors. It also wasn't appropriate for his little sister to be out going door-to-door like that. I thought I'd made my point clear. Later that week, on our way home from church, we noticed a hand-written sign on one of the light posts in the neighborhood. We slowed down to get a closer look and read it. Low and behold, it had our address and phone number on it to come pick up smoothie recipes! We didn't know whether to crawl under a rock or suck it up. Then there was another one on the next light post, and the next. We had to drive around and remove all the signs from the neighborhood. We just laughed and laughed until we cried! Where there's a will there's a way!

Speaking of smoothies, I can't wait for the berries to come on!!! Just a few more weeks!