We currently have 2 (fully paid-off!) vehicles...a Civic Hybrid that gets over 40 mpg (thumbs-up) and an Odyssey that gets under 20 (ugh). We are an occasional family of 6 (my teenage son spends half his time with his mother) which is why we have the van.
Daily, my wife and I use the van to take the other 3 kids (all under 5 year's old) to day care (roughly 3.5 miles round-trip) and then come home to get the car for our daily (carpool) commute to work (roughly 32 miles round-trip).
We've looked for car seats that would allow us to haul the 3 little ones in the car and, short of spending almost $300 each for some fancy, narrow seat (which mightn't work anyway), I haven't found any options. Plus, even if we could do that, we still occasionally need to haul all 4 kids.
My question is this...is this the best vehicle option for us currently? Thanks for the advice.