My anxiety this week

I cannot tell you the amount of anxiety this has caused me.  This:

That's right, new car seats.  I have been fretting over it for months.  Reading blogs, car seat reviews, car seat manuals, pediatrician reviews, talking to friends, taking lots of informal surveys and in general just being sick about car seats.  Because, as we all know, putting your kid in the wrong car seat will kill your child.  I had originally thought I'd make the switch when Alice was 18 months.  But then she only weighed 22 pounds--far from the 30 pound limit of her infant seat.  Rex came in at 35 pounds, almost to the 40 pound limit of the harness on his convertible car seat.  So I waited.  And then my sister invited me to go to DC with her and there was no way I was going to drive 6 hours with Alice rear facing and screaming, so I decided to turn her around about a week before we went.  And then on Saturday we went to the zoo in Columbia, an hour and a half away, and Alice screamed the whole way back.  So I started looking at high back boosters for Rex again so Alice could move into Rex's convertible car seat.  Turns out the one I wanted was on sale.  So I decided to check it out at Babies R Us.  I prepared Rex by saying, We aren't going to buy anything today.  We're just looking.  I failed.  I bought it, but I wasn't going to install it. I failed again.  I vacuumed out the car, removed the baby seat, and here's what you get.  But I was sick about the whole thing.  I MIGHT KILL MY KIDS!  Nevertheless, driving has been much more pleasant the last few days, aside from all the anxiety and nausea due to almost killing my children.