sara - what good girls to sleep so well for you, they must have known that mum needed a well deserved night on the turps! Gosh CHN really are full of cr@p aren't they!! I agree that its a good thing to try and get rid of Briley's bottle, but the sippy cup???? What on earth is the difference between drinking out of a sippy cup or a pop top?? Arch knows how to drink out of anything including a normal cup but he usually has a sippy cup or straw cup so that he doen't constantly spill his drink every where, did she give you a reason behind swapping from sippy cup to pop top? i agree with Sheree, you are a champ!

sheree - lol at the sig, i breifly looked at it before and thought something was weird nut didn't realise it was the pink, i love seeing pink now that the house is full of blue, never was a pink person before though. i agree we all need to stop putting so much presure on ourselves to be the perfect muma nd just realise that we are perfect just the way we are, im sure our beautiful children wouldn't want us any other way.

christine - that is terrible news, good on you for taking Erin in to lay with her and help her feel a bit of normality during all this. My thoughts are with them.

Archie is having sleeping issues again....bummer. He usually goes down at 7-7:30 and sleeps til 8. Yesterday day sleep took ages to shut up and go to sleep, last night went to bed at 7 and didn't fall asleep til 10:30, i think i feel asleep before him, but he still got up at 7:30 this morning! Just gone back down now, it was a fight but better than last night thats for sure, really hoping its a one off, DH is on night shift and only got 3 hours sleep yesterday cause of Archies yelling and screaming. Anyway thats enough whinging from me, on a brighter note today is pay day and i just paid lots of bills, i love putting the bills in the paid pile, very satisfying.

DH and I had a talk about our future (the next four years anyway) and discussed the possibility of moving back up to Adelaide so he can go back to the job he enjoys and finds challenging and fulfilling. It would mean being 5 hours away from family and friends and selling our house and not being as well off financially, but i think making that move before Archie starts school would be wise. Our last move to Adelaide was disasterous as there was no forward planning and we ended up having to get my dad to bail us out then we ended up packing it in and moving back home. SO we are a bit scared from that experience as we havent even been back for a year yet. Either we stay here with more money and stability but DH works in a dead end factory job which he hates, or we make a move back to his old job that he loves but have a bit less money, no support networks (im confident it wouldn't take long to find new friends this time) and be renting again.....decisions decisions......

Thanks fo letting me get all that out