Hey ladies!!! Are you all well and ok? I hope you are safe from fires & haven't lost any family or friends - or your homes for that matter! Living so near it all, I have many friends who have lost homes, family & friends but I have not been directly affected (which I am sooooo relieved about to be honest!) Having said that, I had a good cry tonight looking at some friends photos of a little family with young children including a baby girl who all perished. It's so tragic. Stay safe everyone in Vic/NSW & Qld!!

I thought I may not have joined this group properly or something cos I hadn't gotten any email updates in AGES. Somehow I managed to miss Tans entry actually. So I will have a read of that tomorrow and respond then :-) (I am disappointed I can't point at your brother on the show and say I know who that is LOL).

I am listening to Charli cry atm. We haven't given the control crying a consistent go. We have been so tired and unmotivated but it's really getting ridiculous. So we are trying to sort it out now. She is driving me slightly batty with it all. And so is her sister. Part of the issue is that Liv still isn't sleeping through herself lately!!!! I can't believe that half my grief at night is my 4 year old!? Just when we were going to give the cc a go she decided to ween herself off pull-ups at night and just wear knickers. She then had us up every night for a week to go to the toilet in the middle of the night and it worked and all. Out of the 2 weeks she's been doing it she has only had 2 accidents.. Pretty impressive actually! I also was told about juice - apple in particular - makes girls have accidents & makes it hard for them to hold on! I never had heard it before until recently. Of course apple juice is Liv's fav and so we have decreased the amount of juice she is having and I believe it's helped a lot. She has started 4yo kinder which is a relief lol - we were going pretty BATTY over the holidays I have to say! I thought I was losing my mind at one stage I was so tired and she was so bored.

How did you guys all cope with the VERY hot weather if you had it? We had the WORST weather ever and I was sooooo glad we got the cooling put in. We are broke because of it but I would rather be broke & cool on those days lol. Unfortunately it led to the disasters of the weekend and now. Hoping we don't have another day like Saturday again - hottest on record and it was like being in a fan forced oven.

I am on facebook and would love to friend any of you guys - rachel farmer and my email is rachelzilm @ optusnet.com.au Please friend me :-)

Hope you are well ladies!!! xoxo