Shaun Groves
We’re heading back to Texas with more stuff – a lot more stuff – than we came here with. Thank God I married well. The woman has skillz.
Behold.
Some families give each other plastic eggs filled with candy for Easter. Mine does. Becky’s, apparently, gives away four foot tall doll houses, old lawn chairs, and assorted twenty year old Christmas decorations from the storage-room-turned-work-out-facility. Hey, nothing says Happy Easter! like a twelve to twenty hour drive across America (depending upon bladder capacity) with three kids seven and under in a minivan devoid of personal space. I’ve always said.
Yet today I’ve chosen to fly home instead. So I can make my gig tomorrow in Nashville (I’m talkin’ about Compassion at David Lipscomb University’s chapel service in the morning.) I know, I know. I’m missing out.
Believe me, I’m kicking myself. Really. I am. Maybe next Easter I can celebrate down I-40 with the whole fam in a mobile cocoon tightly packed with a bunch of new old stuff.
Save us a dollhouse and some lawn chairs! I can’t wait!
(To book me now for the Monday following Easter of 2009 please e-mail )
Grovesfan says:
OK, just one question. Where are the 3 kids under 7 going to SIT on this merry journey home, devoid of their male paternal unit?
Beth
steven.russell says:
Wondering exactly what Beth asked.
The roof? Tied down?
Nancy Tyler says:
I know exactly where there kids are going:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS6g_G9poHQ
Kim says:
Being a master packer myself, i applaud her skills. I also wondered where the kids were going to go, but, being a woman/mom, i am sure she has that all figured out. We once drove home from my inlaws in a 2 door ford probe hatchback with a 2 year old and a basketball goal, along with all of our suitcases and christmas presents, and canned goods. Really, if you need it packed in, call a super mom! Hope they had a good, safe trip!
amy says:
Those MPV’s are, strangely, deceptively large and small at the same time. I am impressed.
Carlos Griego says:
I think it is a God given gift to wives to be able to pack like this. My wife can load our dishwasher and our suitcases in ways that boggle my mind. Although she cannot explain why Davidson’s Sweet 16 appearance is so special!
Praise God for our wives!!!
mandy says:
IMPRESSIVE!
Tracy (worshipfan) says:
I too am wondering exactly WHERE those kids are going to sit! I don’t know your kids, but my kids would FREAK OUT if they were packed that tightly into seats for a long trip
Also, any woman who would drive that far, with that much stuff, with 3 kids, ALONE…..she is a hero in my book. I would look at it, and either cry or make my husband drive it! Bravo to your wife.
Veretax says:
Uhm, Points off, you didn’t take advantage of the rack on top of the van! 😀
Noelle says:
If you really do what Nancy suggested, you really do need to Youtube that… then be arrested.
Todd says:
No, but really, where did the kids go?
Nancy Tyler says:
If I couldn’t put the children on top (come on, they’d love the wind in their hair) then I’d throw the plastic dollhouse up there, rope and tarp the thing down and go. If it flies off somewhere in Arkansas, oh well. That’ll be one less thing to trip over at night on your way to the bathroom.
jen says:
While, um, yes, I am wondering where on earth the kids will go, it doesn’t really matter to me – too busy laughing! Last coupla posts – hilarious!
Veretax says:
Yes, Scotty waited to beam them to Tennessee while Shaun caught the plain and his wife drove the van ROFL
Jessica says:
This looks like my family’s van on our annual Missouri-To-Florida trips. 7 fully grown people. Baggage in accordance. 95 lb German Shepherd. Good times.
Shaun Groves says:
The kids are in the back seat. Between the pile in the “trunk” and the pile in the middle seat – right in there – wedge in somehow.
Veretax says:
Yikes is that even safe?
Grovesfan says:
As long as no one has to get out to pee, all should be well; and it’s got to be slightly safer than the rooftop location previously mentioned. I must admit though that I’d love to hear the explanation Becky would offer any police who may pull her over.
Beth
nancy says:
WOW! and I thought my husband packed tightly for our camping trips. I like the way the kids spots are in what we call “the back back”.
Shelia says:
“Come and listen to my story ‘bout a man named Jed…..”
Katy says:
I have tears running down my face from laughter. Tell Becky Hi!
David says:
Dang, dude. And I thought a three-hour drive from Fresno to L.A. crammed in the back of a station wagon with half a seat’s worth of space for my butt due to a huge table that my then-girlfriend wanted to take back to the sorority house was rough.