As much as the mock video "Mom My Ride" always puts me into stitches, I really don't like my van to be a disaster. Chris can vouch that, unless it's the middle of the night (but maybe even then!), the first thing I like to do upon arriving home from a road trip is completely unload the van and then clean it as soon as possible thereafter.
Many hands make light work! Chris carries big luggage for me, but tiny little children scurry in to all the cracks and crevices of the van in search of all travel bottles, trash, toys, and the myriad things that get left in a mom's van. The children "get" to take turns using the DustBuster to vacuum all the floors, then I pass out baby wipes to wash down all the slick surfaces of dust and spills.
Ahhhhh, I feel so much better!
I'll take a moment to confess that I seriously "mommed" our new ride recently. Within weeks of Chris buying me a new-to-us minivan, I was backing out of our driveway and hit his car with my car, which means double payments and all responsibility on us. No other driver to blame. I have such a calm husband, he didn't express any distress or upset at me--neither at the day of the accident or when we got the repair estimate back from the mechanic.
Since I "mommed" my ride so quickly and so badly, the least I can do is keep the interior clean, right?
Chris! Amazing self control.
ReplyDeleteOne time I borrowed my mother in law's van to move something large and scraped it on the garage door pretty bad. !
Then when we first moved to our current house, I was trying to park my minivan in the garage at the bottom and at a 90 degree angle to the very steep and small driveway and completely knocked the mirror off.
Yeah I feel you! At least... your insurance didn't go up? :) haha