Sim - you have a VERY good case for assistance! And you are right, the kids will be better off with your family around them...and they'll be better off because YOU will be better off having their support I'll hate to see you go from Melbourne, but we've spent most of our time knowing one another online and that doesn't have to stop
Rory - might have to give DP the heads up on that beer forum schism - he was on one a little while ago and I don't know if he still is. I didn't realise your DH was a homebrewer, too - DP and your DH could really hit it off, between the beer, the DIY home improvements and being really tall, they could be friends DP is in the throes of making a pizza oven - a brigade friend looked at his BBQ and suggested that a pizza oven would go perfectly...so DP set about making one and his brother has just done the brickwork for the front of it (nice little arch). I can't wait to make bread in it...now that I'm getting to be a bona fide cookie maker, I'm ready to take on the bread world!
Oscar is STILL asleep in the car...can't be long now, I have one full boob over here...