When we added our third carseat, we got our first van. Josh’s family was kind enough to trade us their caravan for our sedan.
We loved that van.
Sure, those Missouri roads had long ago stolen all four hubcaps. And my two-year-old had not-so-long ago stolen the rear view mirror.
(He’s no longer allowed to play loose in the van.)
But we loved that van.
It had stickers in the windows.
(Not as many as the sedan had – did you ever got those off, Gammy and Pop Pop?)
But we loved that van.
We took that van to my mom’s house for the holidays. It snowed there. A good six inches. They live at the top of a steepish hill.
We loved that van.
We tried to get you up that hill, Van.
And we know you tried, too.
We’re sorry.
We would also like to apologize to the stump.
That stump will never be the same.
But it was minor damage, really.
Until we went down again the next morning to get you with a tractor.
Maybe we should have waited for the ice to thaw a bit.
Oh, well.
We loved that van.
A van. I think we are about to get our first (very old, used, but affordable for us-cars are very expensive here in Israel where we live) Quite needed now that we have 5 under 7 and our truck only holds 5 total. The ability to go somewhere as a family is fantastic. I’m so excited!
So, what van did you get? What happened to the old one?
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I’m a lurker (although I may have commented before a while ago). I guess I didn’t realize you lived in Missouri, or maybe it just didn’t mean anything back then but now it does because next week we are moving to Missouri! Anyway, this isn’t really related to your post but I was just excited to “meet” a fellow Missourian (is that what they/we are called?) that I couldn’t help but say hi!
Oh, I hope you get one soon! We were blessed to have been given BOTH our vans (the old and the new), and I’m SO GLAD. Vans are WONDERFUL. 😀
Rich (my step-dad) felt bad because it was him who went down to get our van with the tractor, and subsequentially finished it off. So he gave us an older (new for us! 2002!) business van he was going to trade in for a new truck.
Our van wasn’t quite totalled (very close, though), so he has the van for a trade-in and the check for the damages to go towards his new truck. It’s a 2002 Dodge Caravan – and it’s the extended kind! Our old van was really a car in disguise. 🙂
We don’t live in Missouri, my in-laws do. It was their green van that met its demise over the holidays. Well, it used to be, anyway. They live in Mennonite country (but are not Mennonites, hence the green van (Mennonites who drive have to have black vehicles). Anyway, yeah, Mennonite country = dirt roads. Dirt roads = no hubcaps.
But we go there a couple times a year to visit! And I think they call themselves Missourians?
subsequently? I couldn’t concentrate. Had a baby crawling on me.
Your ‘new’ van is an ’04, I think, isn’t it? Paul really appreciates getting to drive the green van to college every day! Hope it lasts long enough! It still has plastic taped all over the back. But it works.
I was wondering what happened to that rear view mirror…
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