It's here!!!

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away... oh wait that's starwars upstairs the kids are playing on the xbox... lol!

But... in the same vein... a long time ago when my oldest two were young I felt trapped at home. I felt like I couldn't take them out by myself, and so I bought a double stroller. I had a small car at the time and was limited in my options of what was available that would fit into my car. It was functional, but didn't have any extra's to it and was not that great to push around, but it allowed me to get out of the house with my kids by myself!!! That was the biggest plus... the negative was that it really wasn't that convenient to use. In fact Rich refused to use it and push it around and eventually I stopped using it, because the pain of getting it out and using it, was greater than the convenience of having it to use.

Fast forward to now... I gave the stroller away a year ago and constantly find myself out with all four kids and at the end of the day trying to cram two kids into a single stroller because they are too tired to walk back to the car on their own.

I was going to just deal with it... the kids will eventually grow and be out of that stage and be where I can tell them to just walk... and they'll grumble and complain, but follow. Right now they just throw themselves down on the floor and we become a traffic jam... lol!

so... when we decided to go to disneyworld this fall again, and we found out that they had raised the price of renting a double stroller so it's twice as expensive... my brain started to turn... (yes I do use it occasionally on math problems... ) The cost of renting the double stroller for 5 day's of visiting the parks would be $140... that's a lot of money... and I could probably find and buy a stroller for a similar price... Rich told me that if I did it I had to find something that was much smaller and convenient to push with kids in it, and carry folded up. This is like 21lbs without the canopy's and folds up to the size of two umbrella strollers side by side...

So I went shopping online and came up with this:

It is slightly more than what the stroller rentals would be, but this I can use here at home, and if we go on another disney trip in the next two years (which knowing Rich is highly likely) it will pay for itself in the cost we would have paid for renting the strollers there...

And... with this I can use it to get back to the car, instead of carrying a sleeping 30lb 3 year old all the way back to the car after dropping off the stroller... :)

And it's here now. The girls have been having fun "testing" out their seats in it, and I'm pleased to report it is much easier to push and steer with them in it, than our last stroller. :)