Hi all

Jen - I think I'd rather Lucy was sick than DP IYKWIM. Actually, no, I hate Lucy being sick for her sake, so I'd rather it was me!!! My DP is the worst patient ever. He thinks he's dying if his nose is running and I swear he has this miraculous ability to be able to throw up, even if he's just got a headache... In the middle of the night of course! Hope your DH is feeling better and isn't keeping you up! Poor Tayneesha, one of my mothers' group friends' little one had the same thing and she was really sick for a week. Must be awful. I don't think foot and mouth is anywhere near as bad. One of DP's employee's daughter had that.

As for eating meat... I find the easiest is mince meat in pasta or mixed in with vegies (choose some she really likes). If she doesn't like meat, maybe she will do better with a sweeter or lighter meat, like chicken or pork? I'm not much help, Lucy is clearly NOT vegetarian as she tends to pick the meat out first! LOL

Steph - 4th bub, huh?? So when's the tubal ligation reversal booked in for?? Here I am thinking maybe I should back off trying to convince DP to have 3 'cause maybe I can only keep up with 2 and you're thinking of double that amount!! 2 months, never mind, you can mark it off on a calendar! Oh well, back to the back seat of the car, huh? Bit like being teenagers again, sneaking around behind your ILs backs!

We are having a bit of a rough time of it. I had an awful week last week, big contract I've been hanging out for fell through as the company got taken over. Just as well I've been chasing up other work or I'd be even more devestated. This is the second one that's fallen through this year, and while that can be fairly standard, it's sooo much harder to get these deals with Lucy. So she's now going to my gfs on a Monday to give me some time to focus on work. I'm having my gfs little boy who's 9 mths on a Friday so that works out nicely. Free child care for both of us, and we're both a bit funny about who looks after our littlies.

The places we looked at aren't really suitable, but we've widened the search and there is a slightly cheaper area nearby that looks like it might come off. I'm ringing about a couple of places tomorrow. So fingers crossed it's under control this week.

DP and I had a whopper of a row on Friday. I'm not sure if I've forgiven him yet, but we're not fighting now so that must be a good sign. Stupid idiot pulled out some line about him not being able to make any major decisions and how his life has been shifted in certain directions without his say-so, to which I told him I was done making his decisions for him and if he didn't want what he had then he was free to do whatever he chose. In slightly different words... This tired old line gets bandied about whenever he wants to have a whinge about cr@p and is looking for someone else to blame, ie me. Family trait, only his mother is 100 x worse! Anyhoo, seems to have worked 'cause since I think he's decided he'll just drop it and stay put. I think he sensed I was really over it. Which is entirely true 'cause I spent an hour looking for places to rent on my own!

Enough of my problems, if I think about them I'll only get depressed. This would be so much easier if we weren't under quite so much pressure from our businesses. I hope this pays off in the long run...