MN: any thoughts of your own business ? Photos? Writing? Consulting ?
I'd love to start a kids party business PN, I'm a decent cake maker, great with creating invites/favours/party food and super organised - it's tempting, but for now we have a large mortgage so would prefer to keep the stable regular income in. I've done my sums and worked out that my redundancy pay will last me 15 months, so if I stay till the end (Nov), I'll be paid until March 2016. So happy to go now if thats whats gonna happen, have Dec/Jan off for the school holidays, and sort myself out early next year. If the right opportunity comes up earlier I'll go for it as I will be actively looking but not gonna stress for now.

OP - Hows DD now? We just started school holidays as of today, but DS had the last 2 days off sick anyhoo

Teeki - hows the daycare transition progressing?

Thanks everyone for your supportive comments over the last few days (and months actually), I really appreciate the support in this thread, you girls are so easy to bounce things off of - it's nice to pop in here and know a friendly comment or thought is close at hand x