What Happened in the Pool

Newsletter 2020-07-05

This weekend was our annual pilgrimage to Minneapolis to see my mom’s side of the family. It’s a trip I value more every year. The older I get, the more I realize how few places there are where people tolerate me by default. Somehow, my relatives haven’t gotten around to disowning me yet, so we made the drive again this year. Unfortunately, Indianapolis and Minneapolis aren’t exactly close together, and I have four young kids, a fact I seem to forget every time I agree to drive anywhere. Not that I’ll ever learn from my mistakes. If I did, I wouldn’t have four kids.

My children actually travel relatively well, all things considered. Some of them have been making this trip since literally before they were born. My wife Lola never viewed pregnancy as a reason to skip the Minneapolis drive, and for a while there, she was pregnant a lot. My bad. We structured our fleet of uncool mom bans with our annual trip in mind. We paid for the upgraded trim package for both vehicles so we would have …