This month we've been doing a bit of car shopping. My kids have friends, and it is fun to be able to pick their friends up and have them over for a play date. What is not so much fun is playing the game of who needs to be buckled in the car first so that everyone is buckled in safely(and my hand doesn't get squished, pinched or mangled!) I LOVE my Hyundai Santa Fe - and will be sad to see it go, but the time has come...
We did our due diligence and TONS of research to ensure we got the best deal possible on a safe, comfortable vehicle for us. We decided on the Kia Sedona - and are picking it up on Monday! The kids are beyond excited about having a minivan... they think it's so cool!
Today I took on the sad task of removing all our "stuff" from my car - tomorrow will be vacuuming up everything else that's left! Honestly, where does all this stuff come from? I will be making some fancy trash bags to hang from the arm rests in the new van in an attempt to keep the floor on the new car cleaner (note: I said cleaner - not clean, I know that with small people in and out of the car - it won't be perfect, but a girl can dream!) If anyone has any other ideas on maintaining some order in the car, I'd love to hear it! I was thinking perhaps some kind of bins/totes, etc might work, and maybe some "back of the seat" organizers could be made to help out a bit as well.
So that is our news for now - thanks for stopping by!
I have also done some sewing in an attempt to keep SOME of the messes contained in the new car:
the kids each have a nice pad under their car seats to try and keep things from getting on them and they each have a little "trash" attached to the armrest - you can see Little man's selections of fabric in this one - at the time, Miss Thing's was not competed... she now has one with stripes of different colors - mostly pinks, greens, yellow. So far so good - they have been doing well with keeping things off the floor! We'll see how long it lasts!
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