The clincher for us was when we did the math and realized that even if Benji is our last baby, it will be six years before we all fit back into my Sienna. But then we also thought about how much nicer it would be to take just one van on vacations and to various family adventures, and how it would save some wear and tear on our 12-year-old cars. Perhaps we should just continue the status quo and continue to save the money. So we began to discuss buying another big van.Īt first, we figured our oldest would be off to college in a year, then her flight would be followed by many of the others in just a few more years. The one annoyance was having to take two cars on all our family trips, and we figured the inconvenience was worth the money savings.īut this summer, with ten kids in the family now and all the coming and going, I found we had a lot more occasions where I wished we had a vehicle that could fit our whole family, and a lot more times where we had to really think through the logistics of who would go where and when and how. With our kids being older, we almost always have someone old enough to babysit at home, so running kids to activities is no big deal. We figured we'd save on gas, insurance, and the yearly battery replacements caused by having it sit unused for months at a time and just see how it went. We took the van on trips but otherwise ignored it, poor thing. It was older and more beat up than our other two vehicles and we rarely had to take the whole family places around town, so for the most part, we were able to make do with my 8 passenger Sienna and my husband's 7 passenger Highlander. Three years ago, we sold our 1999 Chevy Express because we felt like it was mostly taking up space in our driveway. One of the things that has occupied a lot of time and energy the last two months was our search for a family vehicle. My oldest is a senior, my youngest a 14-month-old who is still not sleeping through the night (we're working on it), and though I find myself home with "only" two kids during the school day this year, I feel like I have yet to catch my breath. Life continues to move along at a whirlwind pace for us.
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