Soccer Mom

After nannying two girls for most of the day throughout this past week as their mother went on a trip, my car has gotten rather cluttered. Instead of describing my week, here's a snapshot of what I cleaned out of my car tonight:

• A ridiculous amount of fruit snacks
• Garbage bags, the huge, heavy-duty kind that janitors use, because anything can, and probably will, happen
• Socks, two pairs of three different sizes
• Chuck E. Cheese tokens
• Whoopie cushion from Chuck E. Cheese that immediately broke after being used once (can't say I was too disappointed about that)
• Juice box straws. Which, by the way, I have become awfully talented in driving one-handed while the other hand searches for fallen juice box straws behind me/places straw into the microscopic hole of the juice box. Don't you just feel so safe with me on the road?
• A fishing pole
• A dog biscuit
• More fruit snacks
• Three bathing suits and towels, along with various pool accessories
• Bug spray and sunscreen
• Sidewalk chalk
• Nine cups used for my favorite childhood summertime activity: catching crawdads
• Two shoes that don't match
• Various bits of candy

It's been a rather eventful week, especially since I've had to come to terms with officially becoming a soccer mom.