So ladies, I was just browsing realtor.ca during my kids naptime with a hot brew doing a bit of fantasizing lol and it just got me to thinking about back garden space.

Does anyone have a really large back garden? Like super big? I have a large back garden right now, but it is a relatively new property and there is no kind of shrubbery or flowerbed so I have perfect visual of all my kids if I just sit on my back patio and watch them get their outdoor play on. My last garden was much larger and I used to have space down each side of the house too. Not a little bit, like 15 feet either side and it drove me nuts that when I was dealing with one child, another could have high tailed it innocently round the side of the house, causing massive stress for me lol I ended up placing temporary fence and had we stayed there I would have had the chain link fence moved to be in line with the end of the house so no more disappearing act. The garden was however fully fenced.

I've just seen the most beautiful house, and have to keep telling myself, you're doing your degree, not moving house lol, why oh why do I do this to myself!?! But it really made me think about how I could possibly do daycare with the garden. It is extremely big and has lots of flowerbeds and is an absolute beauty. Does anyone ever partition an area off or do you just train your kids not to wander off? I think as a kid, wandering and exploring in a safe environment is important and exciting, but watching 5 kids go in all different directions in such a space, even after nearly 10 years doing this, has me feeling a little WHAT!!! little kids can disappear into a flowerbed so easily that I'd be a nervous wreck if I couldn't confine them to at least a controlled amount of space where I had clear sight of them every second of the day.