I think some of the best conversations we have in our family takes place in our car.

We only own one car. That is pretty shocking to most people. We just don’t need/want two vehicles. It doesn’t make sense for us to have 2 car payments when we live in a small town and my husband works 7 minutes from our home. If one of us has to go out of town, we just rent a car. Much cheaper than a monthly car payment on a car we would never drive except maybe once or twice a week.

Three times a week our daughter has before school workouts. It’s amazing when you have your child one on one, the good conversations you can have. On the days that she has workouts I drive our son to school. Not having to compete for attention and having a parent completely to yourself seems to just let them open up about what’s going on in their lives more so than if we were at home just sitting around.

I also love the time with my husband to and from his job. Nothing is distracting us and we are able to have some mighty fine conversations together.

Three separate trips. Three good talks. That is what made this day start off in such a good way.

Well, there’s also this.Hoosiers might be an old movie, but it’s still such a good movie. I am a sucker for feel good sports movies.

I’m also happy to say that I’m getting back on schedule from the holidays. I don’t know why it seems to take me a few weeks. Normally Monday is deep clean the house day. That’s it. But since I hadn’t done a big grocery haul in quite a while, if we wanted to actually have normal meals, I had to add that to my day.

I’m very happy to say I got the shopping done and the house done. My fitbit did not have to vibrate once to remind me to take steps.

Nothing beats fresh sheets and a shiny house.

It was a good Monday.

I hope yours was too.