Thanks everyone - I am spending this week trying to get everything done on my to do list that has sat there for about 6 months. New car seats is order of the day but I have to say I think the information out there is completely confusing once you get past the baby stage - I wish had never looked into it, but last time I just went and bought the EzyCombo on the basis of the CREP result and have always hated it in out little car and DD has never really liked it either - so I was determined to do more research this time but I think I may just be more confused than I was before.

Yesterday I lost my library card 30 mins after getting a new one, and then locked myself out the house, then forgot to take the bag of books back to the library only 2 mins after I had packed it - the children were at daycare so I can't really blame them as usual, I hope I pull myself together for next week. Today had to take DD to art class with DS still in his PJ's and me only half dressed :-) He through a tantrum about a milkshake because we normally always go for milkshake while she is at artclass so in the end we were in the library cafe with him in his PJ's (he had a dressing gown on so very obvious) and me with my PJ top on under my jacket and my jeans, oh well the more people go out half dressed the more acceptable it might become :-)

At the library I picked up a book called "Work Women Want" - I found it a depressing read - the tagline was " If you have ever asked how to make decent money but still care for your children, I wrote this book for you." - - it seems it was written for people who want to party plan, have a spouse who earns enough that they can risk investing it, or just want a bit of 'extra money' but are not dependent on it. All the solutions in there were very stereo-typically female - great for a few I am sure but didn't really even touch on the real issues of what in my mind is "Work Women Want" - which is really whatever sort of work they want but not for a massive amount of hours each week. There was a section on part-time work though which was helpfully divided into negotiating part-time if you already have a job, and trying to get one if you don't already have one (which it did acknowledge was difficult).