The Perils of Having Children

I have been needing to clean my car. I have been meaning to clean my car. I finally got around to cleaning my car. I believe it has been approximately a year since I gave it a good vacuuming. It has accumulated leaves, crumbs, crackers, and miscellaneous broken toys since then. I have a really small car, not a mini van, so you would think it would have taken too long to give it a good cleaning. It took me almost an hour to clean it and pick up all the accrued garbage and junk. I was so proud.

Here is my dilemma.  Once we take a drive longer than 5 minutes, I have the issue of starving children that need their snacks, and the car gets dirty again. While it is so easy and tempting to tune their whining and screaming out, it is much easier to just let them snack on something while we're driving. Maybe I should just stay home for a few weeks, and enjoy the sanctity of my newly cleaned car. Maybe...