Carpooling Makes You Fat

I have two days a week where I am in the car for a couple of hours in the afternoon.  It's not so bad for me, but I do feel bad for Amanda.  It's a long time for a two-yr-old to sit.  Unless, of course, Elmo is playing on the DVD player, then she could sit there all day.

Today I had to drop Andy at gymnastics and then take Sarah to art class.  Her art class starts at the exact time that gymnastics ends so I have a little bit of time before we need to get to art class and then Andy has to wait for a few minutes after he's done.  It's not ideal, but everyone is fine with it.

After we dropped Andy off I drove across the street to Sonic to get some iced tea.  I was so good for the longest time about no caffeine and now I drink way too much.  But we had some time and it was happy hour, which means all the drinks were half price.  The problem is you can't go to Sonic without getting something for everybody else, so I got a drink for me and fried mozzarella sticks for the girls.  Except there are five, and how do you split five equally between the two of them?  You give one to mom, that's how.

After I dropped Sarah off and came back to get Andy, he asked if we could go get a treat.  Specifically he wanted a chocolate dipped cone from McDonald's.  I was about to say no, but then felt bad because I had already gotten something for the girls.  Kids talk, and he would have found out.  Plus I had a ginormous Sonic cup in my cup holder.  Dead giveaway.  When we got to McDonald's I got Andy his cone and Amanda asked for cookies.  I was going to tell her no because she already had the cheese sticks, but it wouldn't be fair that he was eating an ice cream cone in front of her.  McDonald's cookies come in sets of three.  I gave one to Amanda, saved one for Sarah and ate the other.

This was not a normal day.  I don't always make those stops and the kids don't eat treats that often.  But they do almost always bring snacks in the car, much to my chagrin, and a lot of time time I will bring one too.  Not because I'm hungry, but just because.

So how do mom's get so fat?  Eating off their kids' plates and eating as many snacks as they do.  The kids are running it off at the activities, I'm just sitting on my butt driving the van.