I created the name for this blog because of a road rage incident. A decade ago, I was on my way to run errands, and some guy on the road tried to flex on me. What he didn’t know was that the lady in the minivan was not your average mom tossing around the word “kiddo” like it isn’t cringe-worthy.

After he ran back in his car and away from me the first thing I thought as I sat back in my car was- don’t let the mini van fool you, I’m not the one.

That’s where the name came from, and although I tend to leave psychos in the car these days, I can still stand by the fact that people should not let the minivan fool them. I love a minivan, but I am also listening to DMX at top volume in there.

In 2017 I think it was that year, I decided to sign off as Dont let the minivan fool you because I wanted to be something other than a mom blogging about having young kids. My entire identity was based around motherhood, and I was tired of people knowing me at all,  let alone only as a Mother.

I had been studying the esoteric and would fall into the trap of only blogging about that for years, only to lose that website in its totality, all the blogs gone forever. Black Sheep Pink Unicorn is still a top tier moniker for me, I will always be too black sheep for the pink unicorns and too pink unicorn for the black sheep, but I learned that’s not all I wanted to be either.

In 2022 I opened up a store front to let all the things I wanted to become fall together, and in the same month I moved in- my Mom died, and nothing was the same after that.  Those years of building and grieving taught me a lot, and although I do not care to have my career be solely in the healing arts, I know I have a lot of knowledge and service to give in this area, but again, it isn’t all I want to be known for.

So here we are again in 2024, still in a minivan, still cursing at people texting and driving, still moming, but this time it’s different. I am a working mom with a skill set desirable to the modern world, I have a social circle of two, and most of all back when this blog started I was searching for so many answers, and these days, I wait for the answers to find me.

So here I am, signing back on as Dont Let the Minivan Fool You, honoring my Gemini moon and her desire to change it up and not worry how many people are talking so much shit about that.