My engagement ring and J’s wedding ring. J’s is made out of titanium metal and mine is white gold. I can’t believe it’s over 3 years now since we exchanged these!

My wedding ring doesn’t fit at the moment so I can only wear my engagement ring. I blame Zack of course - after having him I went up a shoe size and a ring size, the engagement ring used to be too big! *sigh*

Easter already?
How can that be right?! We’re still
in March aren’t we??

Oh well, I suppose
shouting Happy Easter is
in order today?

I’ve got to admit
we’re not a religious lot-
no celebrating…

Well, maybe an egg
or two, we’ll see. Zack doesn’t
know any diff’rent!

What do you do when
Easter swings round? Family
round, a feast maybe?

Totally shattered as we’ve been busy rearranging our living room today. We got a gorgeous new sofa yesterday and realized that it didn’t *quite* fit in the initial place we’d been going to put it, cue a complete move around of everything in our living room!

I’ll have pics up at the weekend of our new and improved space, until then… can anyone tell me where do you store your kids’ toys!? We have sooo many and not a clue where to put them all. I’ve thinned them out as much as I can without ending up regretting it when Max is old enough to play with them. I just hate having them all out in our living room as we’ve not really got the place for it and they all get pulled out so blimmin quickly! Any (cheap/free) ideas?

Zack has started saying “What you guys doing?” when he has been left for more than about 2 seconds, cute but wearing after oh, the 50th time? Oooh, and Max has found his feet properly, like without me waving them in front of his face! Sooo cute

I’m on my soapbox and I have something to say. There is NO WAY a 4 year old should be allowed to roam around ON HIS OWN all day long, and yet some people seem to think it’s completely fine - WTH?!

What’s set me off on this? Last night I had taken Zack along with me to the corner shop which is a good 5 minute walk with a toddler and on our way back I noticed a little boy outside our close (block of flats for those not used to the Scottish term!), shivering away and crying. I popped Zack inside with J and went back out to see what was the matter.

Now I’ll just point out now, this is not the first time I’ve seen this child out on his own unsupervised. Last summer I saw him countless times wandering by our flat on his own looking for the boys next door from us to play with. Oh, did I mention he was playing chicken on the road? You know… running in and out between the parked cars… sickening isn’t it?

So, back to last night. I checked what his name was to make sure I didn’t have my wires crossed (I didn’t), and said I’d take him back along to his house as it was teatime and everyone had gone inside leaving him on his own. He refused point blank to come with me so I said I was going to get his mum and he could come with me or wait for her to come along, still a big fat NO, so off I went.

I went along to his house to speak to his mum… she didn’t seem fussed about the fact that he was out all the way along by our house on his own, in fact it wasn’t until I mentioned he was running out onto the road that she came along to pick him up.

I was tempted to ask her if she realized it was illegal for her to knowingly let him out to play on his own like that being completely unsupervised, but I thought I’d better not push it, I just hope that it doesn’t take him being run over for her to realize that it’s not appropriate.

I can’t imagine not knowing where Zack is at all times. I mean it’s all very well allowing a kid to go into a garden to play, so long as it’s fenced off and you’re WATCHING them, but to just open the door and assume you know where they’ll be?? In this day and age it’s madness. Imagine if some sicko decided to take him away, she wouldn’t have a clue he was missing because she just lets him out to roam around on his own.

It’s just NOT RIGHT people!! Or am I making a big deal of this?

/soapbox off