Amanda - great news on the house!
Rory and Ali - ooohhhh, the anticipation is delicious! My SIL's sister had a baby girl yesterday - a bit early, but a beautiful girl SIL's family is really nice and this sister is particularly nice.
Bath and Mel (like how I'm getting personal's done in two's??) - argh! School! Uniforms! Here I am deciding when to start playgroup!
I went to a playgroup yesterday and really liked it, but it's on Tuesday mornings when we have our girls brekky - and that's kind of like a playgroup, too, just from our friendship group. I'd love to join the Natural Parenting one in Selby, and I'm patient enough to wait on their wait list, being that I'm not desperate to socialise Oscar any more than he already is. I've heard good things about it.
Oscar doesn't like me being on the computer any more, especially now that I don't have to ship him off to a grandparent whilst I study, so I haven't been able to post - but I've been reading!
I have a copy of The Science of Parenting in my hot little hands (courtesy of my ABA group leader, cos it's not in our library yet), and do you think I can just sit and read it? I reckon I've got this SAHM thing all ballsed up - I'm never at home...and when I am, there's no just reading what I want to read (not suggesting that SAHM's just sit and read whatever they like, just that I can hardly call myself a SAHM if I'm out all the time! So I'm doing double time when I eventually get home...sigh).
DP may be able to pursue a career path that he had previously written off due to the prospect of 4 years full time study in the city. There is an accelerated track to what he wants to do, by doing a Cert IV course 6 months full time (then he'd get Austudy and my parenting payment would increase). That chops off 6 months off the degree course and he could potentially get work just from that cert course - not work he'd prefer, but work in the housing industry, so that he might even be able to get credits for that for the degree course in valuations. Most people who do that course end up climbing the corporate ladder so that there is always a shortage of actual valuers for insurance and banks etc. DP just wants to do valuations because it's flexible and he can work from home apart from seeing the property for an hour. The sweet thing is that in rural areas, valuers are like hens' teeth, so the salary could keep a farm ticking over...noice! Anyway, he's got me filling out his application forms and I'll do that once I've hit 'post'. Then I have to organise my Tupp order. I think this might actually be what he wants, seeing as he decided he would really rather not be a paid firefighter and he doesn't want a bar of working on construction sites any more. We'll see. He really hates his current job because the boss is a moron (they often are...in construction, anyway!).
I know I've missed some people, I'm so sorry - I've been organising for my brigade to support White Ribbon Day and I think I"ve got it off the ground now. Next week the brigade will have a fundraising Tupp party and we decided the proceeds will go to WRD, so that's ace.
Ok, best be off - I'm planning to knock over some laundry folding, too, before I go to bed...
Catch you girls later!
PS great to see you again, Jaspen!