Call me "Soccer Mom"

Well, it's official. I am embracing my motherhood. We have bought a minivan. Granted, it has every feature you can possibly get plus some added accessories ( I wanted to stand out) and is just as nice in convenience as the Mercedes, but it was a hard step to take. It feels like we spent the whole day doing this. We started this morning with Jim and James getting the Honda and Sophia and I getting the Toyota. We met in the church parking lot, crawled through them, drove them around and tried it all out. Sophia sat nicely and watched a Little People DVD and James slept. We decided on the Honda because Jim knees hit the dashboard on the Toyota (you can't recline the seats too far back because of the carseats). It is really nice. I chose a black mini with black interior. I really REALLY liked the ivory interior but just didn't think it was a smart idea to get ivory interior with two small children (milk, juice stains - YUK). The black should at least hide that better and crumbs that may show up on the black seats can be vacuumed out. So anyway, it took me forever to decide (big surprise) but it is done. And, all of the colors I really liked either don't come in the Touring edition or had gray interior (I personally HATE grey interior on big vehicles). Plus, I didn't really want a minivan that everyone else has. Thus, we have black on black. We just have to wait for some of the accessories to be added (I got wood grain interior added, door guard, wheel locks, and 3rd row sunshade). I can't wait to see how it will all be. Hopefully we can pick it up on Sat. Anyone want to babysit Sophia?