Hi - when caitlin was six months old and my partner was not working, it was looking like I would have to work and he would be home dad for a while - I cried like a baby. He got a job the next week.

I always knew I'd have to work part time and at ten months old, Caitlin went to my mums two days i week while i worked at my old job in the city. But I knew I was getting retrenched a few months later. I dont know how i got into the city in work dress ups by 8am - its a mystery now. what do stockings look like ?

I'd love not to have to work and I have mum friends who dont, but then, one said yesterday that her boy wasnt going to three year old kinda cos it cost too much.

barb.