#MomHacks -- Sick in the Car

Red solo cup, I fill you up

Let's have a party, let's have a party

In my life as a mom, I esteem the red solo cup quite highly.  It let's me entertain with less dishes, can be used for crafts, planting sunflower seeds and many other assorted uses.  However, today's #momhack is meant to highlight my most helpful use of the red solo cup.

Red Solo Cup = car vomit receptacle AKA "the sick cup"

Kids getting sick in the car is just about one of the worst things that can happen in day-to-day life, especially if they are still in car seats.  All you hear while driving is the heaving sound as you know multiple surfaces and, more than probably, every buckle crevice is being coated in stomach expulsions.  If your family is anything like us, each kid has one carseat with no spare since you've got the one family car.  Which means that you either have to deal with the stench for awhile or immediately change your plans and execute a deep clean of the fouled carseat.  No matter which you have to do, those buckles, straps and crevices are going to have to be cleaned and it's never pretty.

Enter the red solo cup.

I keep a couple in my center console.  The minute any audible indication of being unwell is made, the cup gets passed/tossed back to the child.  Obviously, not the easiest concept for the younger children but even my two year old has successfully told me "I don't feel good" in time that the majority of her vomit ended up in the cup. 

So, next time you are having the type of party where one of your children is filling up a red solo cup, I wish you well and stand with you in solidarity!