It may be MINI... but it's really really cool

This certainly has been a crazy week. First the Martha Show yesterday, and today Steve brings his new MINI Cooper home! We all raced out to see this little sporty beauty and went for a joy ride around the neighborhood. It was the only time we'll ever get all three kids in there and we drove 5 miles per hour in our deserted quiet streets. No neighbors came out to admire our new baby - but it was not for lack of noise on our part. We were all sticking our hands through the sun roof, screaming woo woo. The kids were thrilled. They are hoping we'll do it again tomorrow night!

Steve has been driving our beat-up RAV4 for ten years. We had a scary night whenit died on the Merritt Parkway a few weeks ago during a trip home from a wedding in Hartford. I got really scared about its reliability; it had close to 100,000 miles. I kept imagining what would have happened to Steve if it had died while he was in the Lincoln Tunnel. So we decided that it was time to let it go even though we had just fixed the clutch. We've had it since we got engaged - it's funny how attached we get to things. I put it on Craig's List this weekend for $200 under the Blue Book value and we were flooded with calls. We sold it six hours later, for cash, even with the dings and scratches. It was so quick and easy, I will never sell a used car to a dealer again.

The MINI is such a fun car - and it's not very expensive (it was cheaper than our minivan!) We looked at more conservative cars like a Honda Civic - and they were more expensive. We got the totally intro model - and it comes standard with all these fun features, including Bella's favorite - mood lighting - which even comes in pink. I love that it has blue tooth and that the music turns off when the phone rings. I won't have to worry about him fumbling with the speaker on his phone when he's driving. The best part about it is how fun it is - if Steve is getting up at such awful hours - he might as well be having fun.

I can't wait to go cruising with my hubby for our date night on Saturday!!!!!! We're going to spend it cruising our high street. Maybe we'll even race someone at the light?