Carpooling with a toddler

It will be a sad day next Monday when we say goodbye to Rabert. Rabert is what James calls his car and we have chosen to only have one car payment in these tough economic times. So we used the money from both our cars to get a newer & bigger car with one low payment. Eventually we will have another vehicle to call our own again but it will have to wait till we have enough money saved up to just pay for it in cash. I'm determined to start paying for more stuff in cash this new year.

Carpooling isn't a big deal to us, since James had shoulder surgery back in May, we got use to driving to work together since only one of us could drive for a month. So no big deal, right? Well back in May James wasn't in school so now two nights a week I get to drop him off and pick him up at night. I kind of got a preview of how this carpooling and Bailey will work tonight.

Bailey: "Where's dada?"
Me: "At school, we're going to pick him up."

Repeat this conversation for 10 miles.

So it's really not a matter of how much I get saved up before we get another car, it's just a matter of how long will I last. Good thing I have a portable DVD player and season 2 of Spongebob, it might be the only thing from keeping me from giving in.