This was the preschool parking lot when I went to pick up Flower today. And this photo doesn't show the other two or three that were next to me. Really? Is this your only choice of vehicle once you have more then one child? I can think of so many others! Take, for example, our Jeep Cherokee. We can fit three car seats in our back seat. There are suburbans and other SUV's. Why does everyone immediately lose their dignity when they have kids? I will never own a mini van. I just can't do it. It's like you've given up and let your entire identity be ruled by the fact that you have children. And yes, I know they come souped up these days but still, they are the ultimate I've-lost-all-my-cool mom car. And besides, I don't want a car that has dvd players and so on therefore souped up doesn't matter to me. I want to connect with my kids. And yes, we take VERY LONG car rides, for example driving from Boise to Las Vegas to Arizona to Utah and back to Boise. And the kid did fine. She did fine when we drove to the Oregon coast to California and back to Boise. I was fine without that stuff growing up, making up some of the best memories of my life on those long car rides. When I was 11, the six of us drove to New York and back making lots of stops along the way during a three week trip, with no other entertainment but ourselves and we did just fine. And don't get me started on how I feel about seeing little kids watching movies in the car AROUND TOWN! Really? Is that really necessary? Talk to them people. Or sing along to awesome music. My Volkswagen Bus is the closest thing to a mini van I will ever own and that is the furthest thing away from souped up you can get. And since I'm sharing my opinion, let me just say that I dislike it when I'm cruising along in Google Reader, enjoying the convenience of having all my blog reads in one place and come to a screeching halt of convenience because someone has theirs set up in the condensed version so you have to go to their blog to finish reading it. Why? WHY?
I also dislike word verification after leaving a comment. It isn't necessary!
Ok I'm done for the day. :)
*Interesting coincidence...I realized today that the two moms I talk with the most in Flower's class are the only two that don't drive a mini van. This was of course realized after connections were made, not before. I'm not that shallow.
