OK, but one more thing about mini-vans first!
Now, 8 years later, I own the very same mini van...Mrs Higginbottom btw, she is paid for, reliable, filthy dirty, dented, scratched and adorned with honor roll and fort stickers. I AM a soccer mom. I do, by nature, know how to multi-task, but choose not to while driving (unless I have to break up a fist fight in the back seat). She is not pretty. But has a video player and room for friends. Therefore....mini van = familial bliss.
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Oh I wish we could downsize to a minivan. I drive a full size E-150 hi-top conversion. Beautiful the day we bought it and went right from the dealer to the hospital to bring the first of our quadruplets home from the hospital. 7 years later and long ago paid for, its mine, dirty, and getting smaller, no room for extra friends, here. I am hoping to add an 8 passenger mini for our everyday use, they'll be tight, but technically we would have room for 1 more, maybe 2 if I use the trunk

. Cheaper on the gas too.
Loretta
Ami ours is named too, Baby Boo...Kids heard me one day trying to talk her up a snow covered hill, saying "come on baby blue" They couldn't say blue so Boo it became.