Does anyone know of any toddler car seats (Evelyn has outgrown her infant seat) that are still able to comfortably fit into a small sedan (old four door Accord) in the rear-facing position? We have a Cosco Tourniva that is too large to sit rear-facing and to give us enough room to drive. Evelyn does meet the weight requirement on the forward-facing position, but is quite a bit young to safely ride that way.

Today is the 25th anniversary of John Lennon’s (the Beatle, not the chaplin) assassination and the eight anniversary of my car wreck in which I spun out on a left exit ramp, jumped an embankment, rolled down a hill back onto the interstate and was broadsided and stuck under a semi owned by the dubious Sam Walton, et al, suffered a traumatic brain injury and was unconscious in the hospital for three days. So sayeth the police report. My first words in the hospital and my first memory? Awaking while the nurse was shoving a potassium IV into my arm and I telling her that the chemical symbol for potassium was K, a fact which I only remember as it is an integral componet of the narrative. We shall be sure to toast this and the Sure Swift Hand at dinner tonight with Jon and Michael at the Cayene Cafe.

For the last two days regular unleaded and ultra unleaded have both cost $1.58.₉₉, so naturally I have opted for the medium brew. Here’s to hoping against hope that it makes my car run longer. It sort of makes me feel like I’m a good automobile parent.