Safety first

Not the brand name...just thinking about safety today. Kind of ironic that I'd run into the "child save" (www.childsave.com) registry at the mall. Okay...back to the beginning. So I drop my #1 girlie off at daycare accompanied by piles of tears and sadness. Poor darlin'. I'm afraid I don't have a heart. When it's her day to go, she's goin' whether she wants to or not. Mama need the break. Anyhoo, I take #2 girlie out, since we're on the road anyway, to HSC for a mall walk. I was gonna call Shay or Megan to go but said the hell with it...I wasn't organized enough and I figured neither would be up with the birds like I am. So, after our walk, I sit down to feed L. I see a little girl (probably 6 or 8...I find it hard to tell) sitting alone. I see a lady join her (figuring it was her mother). It's not that I didn't trust the mother...I just wondered how old does you child have to be to leave her for a few minutes to go to the bathroom? I'm so conscious of preditors (to a fault) that I don't want to ever leave them alone for a second. Anyway, just food for thought.

So after L's baba, my Jo, a few stops to buy stuff...mmm...shopping, I head downstairs and see this booth. Of course the gal knows right away that I'm buyin' what she's sellin'. But truthfully, it's a great idea. After her shpeal of facts on missing kids, she tells me what they do...essentially give a tracking number that attaches to all your family info and kids info (since the privacy act's in place, this is a good idea). So I have a ton of stickers to fix to the car seats, our wallets, etc., that has this master number. I fill the rest of your info, including the girls pics and mail it in. They'll mail me an ID card for each girl. You can also fill it out online and email jpg pics. Pretty easy proposition. She said the monitoring fee used to be $5.25/child/month...now it's $5.25/family per month or there's a savings if you pay the annual fee. Then they'll mail a letter to renew every year.

In this day and age when you can't let you kids play outside alone, we need something like this. I don't know about your guys but when I was a kid, we were gone till suppertime. Out playing all over the neighbourhood, in the woods, way out of our parents sight. You just can't do that now. I'm just glad we have a fensed in backyard where I can let E roam and check on her every few minutes. I'm telling you, if we did what our parents did back in the day, our kids would be gone. It's an aweful way to live, but that's the reality. I wonder if we'll ever get to those carefree days or will it just get worse. Who knows. Guess you just have to make the best of things and protect your kids as much as you can.

Well, I'm off to grab some lunch before little miss wakes up. Take care...and don't forget your umbrella--ella--ella.
~B