I also have to laugh at:
I used to refer to myself as “taxi mom.” Both kids were heavily involved in activities afternoons, nights, and weekends. With just two kids (what would we do if we had more??) and two parents, we went in different directions. We each put on 100 miles per day in our respective taxis, er, I mean vehicles. It did help when the older one got her license. My kids used the car rides for a variety of things…study hall, eating a meal, changing clothes for the next activity, etc. A LOT of time was spent in the car. Their endeavors were spread out in all directions and again, we lived in a rural area in the mountains.
I recall in one of older D’s college essays, she recounts in one part of the essay an example about how she left the house before dawn to be in a ski race across the state and then as soon as she was done her race, got into the car and travelled 80 miles in another direction, changing from ski clothes into recital type clothing, for All State auditions (clarinet). There was a part of the essay with a visual of her leaving the house in the morning for school with skis on one shoulder, a ski boot bag, a dance bag, a clarinet, and a book bag, for the various places she would be going to that day and evening. 