Winter

Safe to say that winter has arrived, I think.

The golden colours of autumn are fading fast, and the landscape seems a little dull at times. The Christmas decorations are creeping in, the lights twinkle at night.

And it's suddenly very cold. The kind of cold that sinks right though. The kind of cold that lends itself to days under a blanket with your slippers and a brew.

That doesn't stop us. My bucket list is at the front of my mind as the countdown to being a family of four continues. So we met up with a friend and her son, who was due on the same day as E, wrapped up warm (unless you're E and you wont wear a hat) and searched for "anmuls" and dodged the rain in favour of big slides at soft play. My daughter, who is terrified of slides and doesn't eat sandwiches proved me wrong again. 

Woollies at the ready. A few snap shots from our day out. 

Linking up with #countrykids this week

The Soft Play Circle of Trust

When you enter a soft play establishment, do you enter the 'soft play circle of trust'? In what other situation would you willingly leave your bag and its contents (which always contains something importantly however well you pack) unattended and completely out of sight? Today I took E to soft play for the first time solo. We go regularly with friends and bag minders, but never just me, her and the bag. We took off our shoes and off we went. And obviously she wanted to play everywhere we couldn't see our bag, and go and everything that was, by very nature, bag unfriendly.


Is there an unspoken rule that irrespective of your criminal tendencies, you do not thieve in the soft play area? Or do we trust that as a group of parents in a similar situation, we just wouldn't do it to one another?


I didn't give a thought to my bag for 45 minutes while I got friction burn on my heels going on the big bumpy slide.


What a trusting character I must be. A fully fledged member of the Soft Play Circle of Trust, that I may have just founded myself.