Hi all!

Sorry I've been out of action for awhile - wind took our cable down and a certain telecommunications company took its sweet time re-stringing it!

I hope all the birthday babies are enjoying their parties! EJ thanks so much for the link to your pictures - LOOOVE the dress and the cakes look so yummy

Char, I know why you couldn't spell: baby brain! Last year I had ESL students correcting my spelling, it was embarrassing! Hooray for Hannah's sleep - long may the pattern continue!

Cathie, safe travels - I hope this lousy weather improves for you. For all of us - I shouldn't be wearing my ugg boots in December!

MadB fx it's not whooping cough

EJ, I am long sighted and have a lazy eye, which turns out a bit when I'm fatigued. It could be corrected with very simple exercises, but, like my eye, I'm too lazy to do them so wear very low-power prescription lenses when reading. I'm sure being so young, Aiden's eyes will respond to simple exercises to help him focus.

Hiya Jules, Audax and Georgi

Millie is doing okay - she had a fever last weekend so we had to take her to the vastly inferior weekend medical centre. Prescribed antibiotics... for what was, when we saw our regular, vastly superior GP on Monday, a viral infection. (Throat again, poor mite can't catch a break!). She said that as we had started the ab, to continue them. Then on Wed she broke out in a terrible rash... back to our GP - probably an allergic reaction to the abs. Dammit! Other than the petri dish that is daycare, she's doing well - sooo close to walking on her own, she just needs a little confidence to let go of our hands! The front right tooth has cut through properly now, but the left side of her gum is still bulging so fingers crossed they come through soon, they have been making her miserable. I got the babyhands book, cards and poster, and we're working on meal time signs like drink, eat, more and finished. I discovered at the daycare Christmas party last week that one of the Mums is deaf - she has a hearing aid and signs with her kids, and the younger one is about Millie's age so perhaps they will spur each other on? Thanks for your encouragement ladies, DH has really got into it too which is lovely.

Dad's op went really well, he was released from hospy early on the proviso that he take it easy... which he's not, so Mum is really fretting and we're all worried that he's putting his health at risk. I got to go out with MG last night which was wonderful, and headed to Featherdale Wildlife Park with them today. Lovely School has gone out with a whimper rather than a bang for me which I am totally fine with. So bizarre that when I was a student and for my first few years of teaching, there was a huge buzz around the end of the year. Now it feels like, oh well, I'll be back before I know it so no need to get too excited...

Feeling a bit flat at the moment. I think it's the weather. I need a good dose of Christmas cheer!

Hope you're all well - much love, ladies!
xox