For so many years and over 260,000 miles, I drove my "Mom van." The kids grew up with it and it carried us safely on several cross country trips and many "firsts." It delivered kids to new schools, soccer practice and violin lessons, baseball games and birthday parties, trips to the lake and moves to college. I was beyond sad when it met its demise. A malfunctioning automatic gate closed on me as I was driving through and it lifted my sweet van full of memories up a couple of