need opinions on this because I’m about to lose my shit with DH
we’re very lucky to have a very large mature garden, lots of lovely trees and bushes, and a very large lawn. This has become DHs pride and joy, and he does a really good job on maintaining it. The problem is we had 2 kids, 3 year old DD and 12 month old DS who has just started walking but obviously very unsteady and falls a lot. They both love to play outside and we have lots of garden toys. Every night DH goes outside and moves all of the toys onto the patio so the grass doesn’t die underneath them. This drives me absolutely crazy. Every single time the kids want to go outside and play I need to move everything back onto the grass. We also have stairs in the garden so really I can’t take my eyes off the baby for a second incase he heads to the stairs. Some of the toys I can’t move myself like the Wendy house and the sandpit so really they are useless. So moving 2 slides, a mud kitchen, sand pit, Wendy house, various cars, tunnels, tractors, ball pit etc is actually very difficult while keeping an eye on the baby. I have asked him a hundred times to stop it and really this just isn’t the time in our life for a perfectly manicured lawn and it’s more important for the kids to have a safe garden to play in. He agrees, apologies, says agrees to stop it, yet here we are again a lovely day looking at garden with all the toys piled on the deck. I know it’s not a massive deal but as anyone who has young kids will testify to, anything that makes life that little bit harder is just a pita.
AIBU- really not a big deal.
IANBU- bury him under his precious bloody grass