Gargy, it was the coffee that kept me up that late. I've been on decafe everything trying to get myself used to not drinking the real stuff (i love coffee and there was one stage where I was having 4 cups a day, many years ago of the real stuff, chocolate etc and I'd still sleep at night) A 'real' coffee before midday is all I can stand now - otherwise I'm running around the house/office. I once painted a huge lounge room in 4hours on 2L of pepsi max and while my body was exhausted my brain was still running around!

Blizz, i remember those heady days of high school trying to spell my name without using vowels because it looked more sophisticated.. nowadays I'm just happy if people can say my name correctly!!

It has been raining here all morning and it has been beautiful, just love the rain, very cleansing.

I have been thinking lately of all of the issues/complications of being open with bubs regarding the donor issue - how will it affect DH. and how will it affect MIL who married a man who has 5 grandchildren, but when her daughter had a baby, she felt it was her first biological grandchild and it was different to the others (and she told me this, along with "well Dh has got two brothers, surely you can get sperm from them"). We went around there the other night and showed her the donor information that we chose.. trying to get her around to the idea that DS will be used and that regardless of the biology, bubs will still be her grandchild - I know my mum would just have accepted it and loved bubs regardless (she was always 'adopting' my friends when I was a teenager).. but I do have a nagging thought at the back of my mind - what if? What if this bubs is treated differently because they are not the biological offspring of gran? Bubs is only going to have one set of grandparents (both of my parents are dead), so I do have a nagging concern. i was thinking (and this is very early stages) that if all goes well and we do go into labour at 9mths with a bubs that I might invite her along, to sit quietly in the corner (if she wants to) for the event, to try and get her more accustomed/accepting (not sure on the right word) of bubs, so there is some form of connection there from the word go??

what do you ladies think??