The kids and I went to the car wash this morning. I wanted both the vehicles vacuumed out but they don’t let you use the vacuums without a membership or first purchasing a car wash. A couple of weeks ago one of the boys and I went to find a vacuum for the van. I pulled up and asked a lady who was also there with her car where we were supposed to pay.

She said it was free. I couldn’t imagine how something like that could be free nowadays but we went ahead and vacuumed it out. Later I came back and told everyone about this car wash place we’d found where you could get free vacuuming. My husband was like, “I think you have to have a membership first” and of course he was right. But today they were having twelve-dollar Tuesday where you can get the most expensive wash done plus the free vacuuming.

So that’s what we did. I don’t know why I never thought to take the kids to something like this when they were little. We could’ve had such a fun tradition that when things got hairy at home and everybody was going stir-crazy we just hopped into the van and drove to the car wash. It would’ve mesmerized them surely and we wouldn’t have even had to go in anywhere.

They said they used to do this with Grandma. I had no idea but I was very happy to hear this. So they all knew what to do when we came out of the laugh-inducing washing tunnel and there were enough vacuum hoses around so that everyone could help. I felt like a civilized adult having a vacuumed out car. The boys drove home with one and then Elianna and I continued on to Walmart. I felt like I needed a couple of shirts in addition to cat food and things.

Then we stopped by Aldi to get snacks. Later this afternoon we all went to the Athens track for the boys to run their 4×400. No one was able to find the baton so they used a hammer handle. They shaved around 20 seconds off of last year’s time. After that I took a nap and then wanted to swim to help my joints. Dad came with. It was early enough to still swim in the sun.