PILED IN LIKE SARDINES

I will be praying for Kayla over the next few days. She has try-outs for Jr High basketball.

I will also be praying for myself. The carpool we have been invited to join has 8 (eight) girls in it. Now that is all good - it should mean fewer trips than normal. But. Most of the ladies have 7 passenger vans and a couple have 5 passenger SUV's. We happen to have an 8 passenger van so it will work out fine for us. IF I AM PLANNING ON LETTING MY SEVENTH GRADE DAUGHTER DRIVE while I stay at home. Also the carpool is made up of 2 or 3 neighborhoods and I think it would be more logical to break it down. So I am deciding whether to rock the boat (or van?) and suggest breaking this thing down into 2 carpools. To be honest piling kids into a car like so many sardines doesn't really bother me. I've only done it once, we took 7 kids somewhere and one of Blake's friends had to ride in the "grocery section" of our van. But that was one time. And of course, I was raised sitting wherever there was room in our wood-panelled station wagon. When we drove my dad's mustang, I would sit between my mom's knees in the front and the other 3 kids fought over who had to sit on the hump in the back seat.
And of course we probably wouldn't have known what a seat belt strap was after we dug it out from between the seats. I'm sure we thought it was a built in weapon of some kind to be used against a sibling who was on our side or who was looking at us.
But now things are a little different and we know the safety issues and we could get a ticket and blah, blah, blah....
So after this evening I have to decide whether to take a stand for safety and...well, common sense, or pile Kayla into one of those vehicles and tell her if she's gonna swing that seat belt strap, keep the buckle part down......