Soccer Mom

Thank you all for the encouragement you left in comments to my last post.  It really cheered me up to know I'm not alone in experiencing struggles upon reunion.  There are still daily struggles, mostly regarding parenting, but I thought I'd space out my posts that sound like I'm complaining ;)

In other news, I'm one step closer to being a soccer mom.  Have you ever looked up the definition of soccer mom?  According to Wikipedia it says:

The phrase soccer mom generally refers to a married middle-class woman who lives in the suburbs and has school age children.  She is sometimes portrayed in the media as busy or overburdened and driving a minivan.  She is also portrayed as putting the interests of her family, and most importantly her children, ahead of her own.

Well, the kids aren't quite school age yet.  And isn't parenthood putting the interests of the children ahead of yours anyway?  I believe it should be.

But now I'm the proud new owner of a minivan.  Yup, I'm driving a minivan.  Before you think I've gone to the dark side, let me just tell you why I'm loving it.  The doors open and shut with the click of a button, the kids can watch TV while I drive, I can talk hands free through the radio, we can keep drinks cold on trips (it has a cool box), and it gets better gas mileage than the SUV I was driving.  

I guess you could say I'm pretty happy with the new role of soccer mom.