At the Car Wash

The children and I LOVE to travel. It must run in the family because my grandmother always said "Call me, my middle name is GO!"  With so many friends and family so far away, we have even learned to have fun on our car trips. True story.

Now, there is nothing like the aftermath of the kids riding in the car for 8 hours and the cleanup is not the fun part. I have this fantasy that we someday go on this incredibly long road trip and we get back and the van magically disappears and I have a brand new shiny clean vehicle!  That has not happened yet, so we went to the car wash today. 

The kids love the car wash. The novelty never wears off. It is a magical place because when they are there, all three willingly clean!  It is nice to have a fresh, clean start even if it is just in our old beater van. 

Today was a fresh start for Jackson too under his behavioral contract at school. His teacher said that he was "fantastic" and he completed all his work at school! We have had a nice relaxing time at home tonight as well. The kids had extra playtime with their Legos and I continued to purge clutter from the house.  All in all it was a good day. 

Austin had a good day as well it seems. He said, "Mommy, I changed my name today. You see, I am the Big King Leader of my friends at school. They need to call me Skull, so you start calling me Skull too."  We all had a good laugh over that one. 

Here are some photos from the car wash so you can see the magic for yourself. 

The soap party is just getting started. 

Neon bubbles...

Soap Nadder is coming!

Vacuum hurdles. 

Monkey see, monkey do!