This is how we roll..

Last year Aviva and I were interviewed for an article which focussed upon rules parents make for themselves prior to having kids. In that article I talked about the rule I had made when we first got our minivan: No eating in the new car and water will be the only approved beverage. Truth be told, the first person to spill Dr. Pepper all over the floorboards was an adult. Who? Who would do such a thing? Yeah, you got it. It was me. The Rule Maker. But instead of feeling like I was some kind of a loser who could not even keep a car clean, I decided that I had set myself up by putting an unrealistic expectation upon all of us. I needed to pop open a can of Diet Coke with Lime and think about how our family uses the car.

We use our car, we use it a lot. We road trip for hours upon hours in the car. So in rethinking how we use our car and when, I realized the chance of us needing Febreeze and Resolve was fairly high and besides, weren't those products put on the market because of people like me? Spillers of the community.

I now accept that our family isn't messing up our car, we are DETAILING it. Mom My Car!