But can I tell you the damage that raising three little ones in your van can do to such a pretty machine! It's true I feel like I'm raising my kids in this van. Its really the only consistent home they have had-hahahhaha-sad! No seriously, we do spend A lot of time in it especially on Fridays when I go to garage sales:)
So...It only took me FIVE hours of
sucking-scraping & screaming (at the kids to get out of my way) to get this beast clean today!!
and it still isn't like new! I told Bill he needed to put hard wood floors in it for me:) wouldn't that be smart!:)
Oh...I should also be a Magic Eraser salesman- those things Really are Magic!
Anyways.. while I was cleaning my van the last 6 years just flashed before my eyes and All the places we've been and All the memories of basically raising our kids up while driving this van-really actually made me sad to think someday it may not run anymore:( I scraped off some stickers on the window that Mollie put on there when she was about 3-sad:( there goes that! Mollie will never be three and sticking stickers on Everything anymore! I cleaned up vanilla milk that had spilled behind Hayden's cars seat-gross-I know- but it also makes me smile thinking that my kids feel So special when we drive through Starbucks and they get a coffee too(not always just when I'm feeling rich:)!!
I could go on and on about all the Crazy fun we have had in this van but I'm seriously crying, so I have to stop! I just hope it runs forever now- that's all!! And I'll start saving for Hardwood floors:)
2 comments:
Oh my goodness Jodi! I'm crying thinking about your van! I always loved that you could do anything in that van--even pee! But I love that instead of complaining about the mess you were loving the memories. Thanks for the reminder.
thank you for the cry! I cannot imagine 6 years because we only had 5 months of memories in ours and I am still devastated it's gone! I do smile whenever I remember seeing your van around Fort Smith (usually in Starbuck's drive-thru) good times!!!!1
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