6 HOURS!

So, my mini-van mom mobile has been needing a cleanin! My husband keeps telling me to just take it into the auto bath or something like that and pay to get it detailed out and all cleaned. But the crazy, analytical side of me, who refuses to pay some supposed "auto spa" over $50 (minimum for what this car needed) when I know I would just come home and do it all over myself, was just not an option. My car doesn't need a massage. So after dropping the two older kids off at school (a feat all in itself, it was picture day), I decided to get right to it, at 8:30 am. Everytime I walked back into the house to get something or switch out the carseat covers that was so covered in juice, soda, milk, gummy bears, and goldfish, had to have the help of the washer, I realized another hour had passed! by the time I was completely done, it had been 6 HOURS! I am still in shock it can actually take that long to clean out a car, 4 kids or not, sheesh! While I was cleaning, the two little ones were adventuring out, and putting their little dirty foot prints onto every spot I just finished cleaning. That probably contributed just a little to the lengthy time I spent cleaning. They had fun crawling under the front porch, and came out covered in little pieces of newspaper and dirt. Hmmmm, I wonder what is under there? Since I grew up with a sister who was obsessed with animals of every kind, and was always finding some weird animal to bring home, she brought home baby rats one day, and my mom let her keep them, little did she realize, she brought home one boy and one girl, and they made babies. I know they love to use newspaper, to shred it into little pieces to make their nests to deliver their little slimy, pink babies in. Yuck. Needless to say, they had a nice soak in the tub.