Love/Hate Relationship with the Ice Cream Truck

Everybody with kids New York City surely knows about the ice cream truck that magically appears as soon as the temperature rises above 65 degrees.

Lucky for me, or not so lucky for me, we have an ice cream truck literally a block from our apartment. We have a dog and typically we go for a walk every night after I get  home from work to take the Rock man out and of course most nights I do my very best to avoid the ice cream truck. The kids are getting to smart though and they know the route to walk to stumble across him and then proceed to beg for ice cream. Not always a scene I am in the mood to deal with after a long day of work, not to mention the internal debate I go through on if the ice cream coming out of these truck is actually sanitary…

However, there are other times when the ice cream truck manifests into my savior. On those nights when the kids are fighting, I can tell they are tired and in general nothing is going smoothly, the simple suggestion of getting some ice cream is just the magic anecdote. Immediately the mood lifts, the kids are rushing to get their shoes on and we actually just really end up having an enjoyable time sitting on our apartment stoop being messy and savoring our little summer treat. All the fighting subsides and peace prevails. The power of ice cream.

Original post to NYC Moms Blog.