Noah has begged us for months to go to this new drive-thru car wash in town.  We always put him off….we tend to not pay for things we can do ourselves.  We wash our cars in our own driveway…and use that $5 for something else.  But Noah continues to ask.  Friday the van got covered in bird poop.  It was crazy.  When Brian commented on it, of course Noah piped up that we could go to that car wash.  So we did, just to make him happy.

It is amazing how much fun you can make out of a simple everyday thing.  We joked and laughed as we went through….teasing about rolling down windows, or jumping out of the way when the cloths hit the windows.  Then when we got out, they had free vacuums to clean the interior.  We pulled up in a spot that had another empty beside it, so Brian and I both got a vacuum, one on each side, and went to work.  Then we started teasing the boys, sucking their clothes and their hair.  I started quoting Wayne’s World.  ”It sucks, as it cuts!”  ”It certainly does suck.”  We sucked the boys’ hair up into weird shapes.  We were all laughing so much.  I loved it and we all drove off as happy as could be.  Joy in a car wash.

I can’t remember the last time I spent a better $5.

“Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen