The Big Presentation

Yesterday I spoke at the Click It or Ticket campaign kick-off. Hopefully a few more people will wear their seat belts. I think it went well. Here's the links to the different news stories that came out of the whole thing.

Fox News #1

I didn't have a clue what to do with my hands! At least they didn't film that far down.

Fox news #2

Love that he had to get a picture with me being interviewed in the background!

Ksl.com

The cows in the Seat Belt Convincer! We got in it too. And since the weather was bad I was wearing a cool trench coat my friend lent me.

Deseret News

It was good to do this but it was really exhausting. I came home and took a three-hour nap afterwards! The Chick-fil-a Cows were there, they're a big sponsor of the whole safety thing. They had a good time playing with Middle Child and gave him some free sandwich coupons. That made his day.

Seatbelts

Let's just just address the whole seatbelt issue so no one has any embarrassing questions. All the articles state that Calvin wasn't wearing his seatbelt. The second comment to the Deseret News article about the accident stated something to the effect "It's too bad the parents will have to live with the guilt of not making their children wear their seatbelts." Idiot. We would all be dead if we weren't wearing seatbelts! That's the only reason the rest of us are alive. We don't let our children ride without seatbelts. But that was one of the things that Calvin had rebelled against in his teenage years. It was a battle every time we got in the car. There were times he would pretend to buckle until I turned back around. Thank goodness for Mother Supersonic ears, "I didn't hear a click!" Sometimes I would be yelling so hard at him for his seatbelt cuz I was so tired of the battle. Obviously he didn't believe me when I said he could die without his seatbelt. We weren't in the habit of getting in car accidents. (wonder how much the car insurance is gonna go up now!) Thankfully the other children did listen and I hope it won't be a problem with them at all. And, by the way, Sister Accountant left an unpublishable comment with the paper that made them think twice and they removed the 'guilty seatbelt' comment so it's not there anymore, thank goodness.