Not To Put The Cart Before The Horse But...

Today MB and I went looking for a new Larri mobile. Right now I drive an Equinox which is Chevy's small crossover SUV. I love it. It's a "mom" car but it's smaller and has all the room we need. Most importantly, it's not a minivan. While the nox is a great ride now, once we add another player to our roster we are going to need a new vehicle to cruise around town in. See where the cart and horse reference came from? That's how you know a great metaphor, when the author feels the need to explain it.

Anyway, I'm trying to avoid getting a stupid minivan. I could bore you hear with a long nagging narrative about how car seats are HUGE and that they take up even more room when you have to put them in backwards and how I think it's dumb that we have to keep our kids rear-facing until they go to college these days, but I'll spare you. THEN after we deal with all the space needed for "safety" we have to accommodate for all of our crap! Do you know how much SHIT kids need? Some parents lie to you and tell you that the load gets lighter as the kids get bigger but that's only half true. If your kid isn't involved in any activities and spends his days at school and nights in front of a TV or playing video games, than sure, no extra baggage required. HOWEVER, if you have the nerve to expect your kid to actually do stuff, well than that's a whole nother set of crap you need to be able to lug around. MB's violin and football pads take up just as much room as Audrey's stroller. Forget a double stroller! Have you seen those things!? They're basically the Buick of the stroller world.

So with all that in mind and based on my eyeball test, it looks to me like we are going to need a large SUV with a third row and captain seats. Can someone please tell me where I can get one of those for less than $50K? Oh yeah, and leather seats please because kids are slobs. No one? Not even a reasonably used one? NO ONE? Yeah I haven't found one either. We've got time though so I'm not giving up yet.

When we got home and my husband finished rolling his eyes at me for going to shop for a vehicle we don't plan on purchasing for another six months he told me that if I had to drive a minivan he'd paint pink flames on the side and put a wine bar in the back. Now THAT'S a minivan I could get on board with!

Quick baby makin update: Our first HCG level came back at 71 and our second, two days later, was at 198! The hope is that the level will double every 48 hours. Looks like our next little one is a bit of an overachiever. We go back in for an ultrasound on December 4th. I've got a good feeling about this one though.