Do you have a baby photo of your child in their first car? The First Car for them, the one you brought them home in, the one with good and bad memories. Being petrified to drive a precious baby on the road, having them ruin your car with dropped sippy cups, and of course the vomit. My son threw up so much in one of my cars from ages 2-4 I thought I would never be able to trade it in.
My 8 year old daughter asked me today in the car what her first car was. I had to stop to think. Was it the Toyota 4 Runner we got to keep the chocolate lab in the way back? Or was it the Mazda 3? No, that was later....could it have been the Camry I had inherited from her great grandmother just before she was born?
After discussion with my husband who forgets nothing, it was determined. Her first car was a 1999 Toyota 4 Runner. And I was driving a 98 Toyota Camry at the time. My son also came home in the 4 Runner, and I was driving a 1996 Camry then. So, they both have equally mundane first car experiences.
But it got me thinking. We should all take a quick, semi posed family photo in front of a car once in a while. You know the cool 40 year old photos with the vintage 70s car behind them. It reflects style, personality, and so much more. If we don't have these photos, our kids will wonder.....what car did I come home in?
And that is a pretty important question we should be able to answer.
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