Bec - PMSL @ ignoring the pile of washing in the study. Silly girl for offering to cook at Chrissy! Delegate woman! Delegate! Just cook the meat and get everyone to bring the rest, hehehe. I've scored a great deal this year. Cos Gab and I have to drive down to Geelong on Christmas morning (Neil finishes night shift at 6am that morning so he's gonna stay home and sleep then come down later) by Mum and sisters are cooking everything. Swwwweeet! Hope the m/s hasn't kicked in by then. I want turkey!

Belinda - woo hoo for your Mum cleaning for you. Gotta love Mums. When Gab's an adult she's gonna miss out because her Mum is the worst cleaner in the world. LOL. Oh no @ Mason's chicken pox. No fun! Hehehe...yep... we can chat! We're shadows of our former selves tho!

Trish - I reckon you'll do a brilliant job at cooking Christmas lunch. You're so used to cooking for stacks of people so you'll have it down pat Ouchies at the lip. I can just see you looking in the mirror howling; "I am not an animal!!!"... hehehe. Oh I shouldn't laugh. Sounds so painful.
How on earth did Joel break his nose? I hope it wasn't a punch-up. I imagine it's quite painful too.... and to take sport away from him - that'd probably kill more! You social butterfly, you.. having your weekends all booked up.
Gone are those days for me. *sigh*... I need to make some friends. How do I do that without seeming desperate??

Sarah - awww @ Zander calling out Piper. Isn't it great when they have little buddies? Gab saw Paige the other weekend when we were in Geelong (we got to hang out for the day) and OMG... there were kisses and cuddles.. and arguments... then more cuddles! So cute! Ooo have fun at the BB Christmas dinner. Say hi to everyone for me!

Fi - LOL @ your rubbish truck conversation. Sounds hilarious. OMG... don't you hate it when they don't notice the housework? I stayed up last night until 11pm folding washing. What's the bet Neil doesn't even comment (after having a dig at me the other day when he brought the washing in... he said; "Gee I'm a good housewife". Bugger!).

Can you believe a train went past for the first time during the night last night? It was about 1am. We live right next to the railway line. During the day it's not so bad. The train slows right down so it's not overly loud. I reckon 5 have gone past the whole time we've been here. It's just a frieght line so that's why we weren't stressed about living so close to it. But, yeah... last night... OMG! I'd already gotten up to Gab 2 times to give her dummy back. I was enjoying the portacot where the bloody dummy couldn't go walk-abouts. Do you reckon she woke? Nup! A fricken train can go past and she's fine... but if I pull the plug out of the bath... "Waaaaaaah!".

ETA - OMG... all the posts while I was typing this one! Chatterboxes!!