Thanks for asking about me!

The weekend was quite good - I made sure I didn't argue with DH at all, even though I could have done (my mother upset me a lot again). I fact, I went out of my way to seduce him, which went OK from his end so all is good!

Maternity leave... well, as soon as I go on it, I'm going to have a job interview for my "new" job, which is twice as much work as the old one for no extra pay, so I don't want it! But that's OK, no-one would employ a girl on maternity leave. I can take 6 months paid and 6 months unpaid, plus all my holiday for this year and next, so in total I'm off from Christmas and returning 1st March 2008 - 6 months unpaid and one month on half-pay, the rest on full pay, or almost full pay. If I don't get my job, then I still get my 6 months fullish pay, month half pay and I'll start teacher training in September.

We get "tax credits" to spend on childcare, but no financial help if we don't go back to work. I can't even add my tax-free allowance to DH's any more if I don't work! (Ruddy Bliar...)

Anyway, DH had a good interview on Thursday, he has another on Wednesday (OK, I teased him about that because it's at his brother's workplace and this girl Nicky "really wants" him because of his brother... I killed myself laughing and did a 3 Billy Goats Gruff thing of "you don't want me, you want my brother, he's so much bigger than I am" - DH doesn't have much of a sense of humour any more) so I hope it will all go a bit better. He's also happily car shopping; we just have to figure out how to pay off £5-6k of hire puchase, then trade our car in and we'll have no car debt then, plus we'll have a car with back seats! I'm hoping my parents can lend us the money for a couple of weeks, which means I really have to bite my tongue around my mother, but having no car debt will really help our finances. OK, so we'll be over-paying the mortgage as soon as that happens, but even so we'll have some "extra" money so don't have to worry about the cost of baby clothes.

I also get the baby to kick stuff - for some reason DH prefers watching an empty yoghurt pot jumping up and down on my tummy than he does feeling kicks, so we do that now. He's still not interested in pregnancy stuff, but then again I'm still waiting to get that really huge, really pregnant-looking bump. I can still (just) fit into a size 8 skirt, although I can't breathe out too far in it!