Lips

We have made many car trips to Arizona back over the years. Sometimes we stayed in motels and sometimes we camped. We always made use of friend's and family's floor space when possible. On one trip we were camping, but only the type of camping where you pull into a campsite, set up the pop-up camper you're towing (it was J.'s mom's), and go to bed. Meals were either sandwiches for lunch, pop tarts for breakfast, and inexpensive restaurants for dinner. This meant we didn't carry any cooking equipment with us which also meant we didn't have a way to heat water in the morning for coffee. 

Coffee is vital to the morning, and so our first activity would be to start driving and find somewhere we could buy some. On this particular morning we had camped outside of Omaha and were on the search for coffee. I think we were fairly close to Lincoln when we found a place and drive through to get that vital liquid which makes for happy parents. On the top of the cup lids were little lip stickers to keep the coffee from sloshing. We thought they were funny, so stuck them on the dashboard of the van. 

Where they stayed. Every so often we would comment on them. They were just a part of the van. So much a part that as we knew the van's days were rapidly dwindling that I can remember looking at the little lip stickers and thinking I would need to remember to take them off so we could keep them. 

Fast forward to about a week after we got the new van and someone on the family group chat asked I we had remembered to get the lips. I had forgotten and everyone was a little sad about it, myself included. 

A. swung by today to say hi and collect some mail we had here for her. While she was here, she also did this.

Having been officially decorated with the appropriate family van decorations it is one step closer to feeling a part of the family.