Monumental

It was a big week for me!

I officially made the switch from chauffeuring three kids in carseats in the back of our Crown Vic–to becoming a minivan mom!

I never really pictured myself driving a minivan. (I don’t know what I thought we would drive, when we discussed having four children! Maybe a hovercraft–ha ha!  . . . Wow. That thought shows just how much I’ve been hanging around my 2-1/2-year-old son!)

But here I am. Driving the minivan.

While switching out the carseats from the Vic to the Odyssey, we went ahead and moved Carissa up to the “big kid” carseat. Her legs have hung off the end of the infant carseat for over three months now. So it was time. She looks so cute back there with her big sister Mara, looking at the world! I always love it when they transition, because they can see everything so much better. It’s been an exciting change for each of my kids!

This also happens to be the week that I inherited my husband’s Droid. I love the GPS feature. I will never call my husband “lost” again. And now thanks to Google Latitude (is there no end to the programs Google propagates?) he can totally track my location at any time, which I suppose gives him some special delight.

I’ve always been a non-smartphone person.  I need a phone to make phone calls, and I like very basic features such as voicemail, speaker phone, some sort of hands-free. . . I’ve never even been a big fan of texting. Or even a camera phone.

But if I’m going to stay with the times, and not become (before age 35) one of those old people that can’t handle all this new technology stuff, I suppose it’s time to move on up.

By next month, my husband expects me to store my life in this thing. To plan out my schedule, all appointments, to-do lists, shopping lists . . . We will see. It’s taken the better part of the week just to get to Level 4 of Angry Birds Rio, and that’s with starting over after the “smart” phone crashed and lost all my scores up through Level 3.  (Yes, this is all true, but before my closer friends–or my moms–start worrying about my priorities, just remember: there is often more to the story than meets the eye.)

Wow. A minivan. A “big girl” car seat. My first smartphone. And Angry Birds!–It’s been a monumental week!

So there.

I blogged about something monumental!