Dee. LOL!!! My DH's family are Jehovah's Witnesses and it cracked both me and DH up. That is one of the maddest things I've heard. How illogical - I will sell you the cake, and thereby aid-and-abet and gain financial profit from your morrally corrupt shin-dig, but I will not write happy birthday! I'm real sure his God saw the distinction in that!!

(As Dee said - this is not to diss anyone's religion - but people should leave others to their own beliefs. And I don't think your baker-man was, cause like I said, he was happy to take your money....)

Sexy sultry secreatry - I like that!!

Poor Simone - hope your lil- man gets better. Mine has a manky eye (which appears to be clearing with eye drops) and that is worrying enough!!

IK, your post made me think of a musing I had the other day on the way back from mothers' group. Mothers contribute so much to the world - even our little mum's group who had just spent the morning eating cake and talking - we are the ones who glue society together. We are the ones who organise kinder fetes, sew name labels onto clothes, set up social events for our DPs and DHs (we all know single/divorced men have less connected lives), buy our MILs mothers day pressies, stay home when kids are sick. And that is whether we stay at home or go out of the home to work, but the ones who stay home get to do more of that sort of stuff.

Part of me would love to stay at home forever but the other is itching to get back into it. I had lunch in the city yesterday with 2 lawyer friends in a lawyer cafe (just near the barristers chambers) abd sat waiting for them reading the Fin Review while BF. It felt really good to (sort of) be in both worlds. Hopefully working from home one day a week, then building up to more steady parttime work will do that....

Nickers, you are doing so well to last as long as you have - you should be proud! I am going really well with BF but every day I thank my lucky stars it has been so easy for me and Flynn, and I totally know that next time could be different for me. Your perseverance is a real inspiration

Ali, 2.6kg is amazing - how many points are you on to have managed that!! I hope you were'nt being silly and starving yourself I really do want to get back into losing weight - I am so sick of not being able to fit into my old pants (and we're talking a realisic size 14 here girls, nothing silly!) DH is away next week working in country victoria with a mate so I am going to make a real effort to turn over a new leaf while he is gone.

Nickers I tried emailing you but your hotmail account seems to be down. PM doesn't work for me either, for some reason.

gotta go - DH has me on lounge-room painting duty while he stains the skirting boards

ciao bellas