Kate, I really hope you get the right results today.

Kathryn, so glad to hear that Ashton is ok. Gotta love those poohnami tsunamis (I borrowed that from another thread!). Jack has had only 2 or 3 pooh explosions in nearly 2 years. Thomas has already had more than I can count. And quite often when we are out - yucko!

Marion, you will prob be back when you read this so I hope you had a fantastic time and that you didn't have too much pain.

Christy, good to hear from you - how is Jovie going now? Once I get rid of the rellies after the Christening we will have to organise to meet up at Carindale or something.

Tom had another bad night last night. 3 wake ups and we were up from 3:30 to after 4:30 with the last one, then DHs alarm went off at 5:30 (he is a scuba diving instructor as a hobby job and is working today) and Jack woke up a few minutes later. Tired but as Kate said, getting somewhat used to it.

LOL at being called a bully! Huge vent, ignore if you wish. MIL gets very strange when she is away from FIL, not sure why, they fight all the time when they are together! She got upset with us (mostly DH) on Wed night as we were saying how we wished BIL would give up smoking. Twice he has been staying here since he moved to Sydney in August and both times he just coughed and coughed, really bad, hacking coughs. Plus he works on radio so his voice is his income. And he would smoke out the back but the house is usually open to let in the breeze so the house (incl Jack's bedroom) ended up smelling of smoke. Anyway, MIL got upset bcos apparently we were backstabbing him. Don't really understand this as she kept b!tching to us the whole time he was here about how she wished he'd give up smoking! And also DH talked to him about it while he was here and asked him not to smoke around the house, so it's not really backstabbing. But MIL got upset then called us ungrateful (for what I'm not sure). Then Thurs morning she went to the hossy and asked for FIL to be discharged. So now he is here too and I am constantly running around getting him drinks and food and stuff as he is too much pain if he walks much, and he is downstairs and the kitchen is upstairs. MIL is mostly too busy on her computer to do it for him. I don't mind doing these things for FIL but feel that he really should still be in hossy. Also, MIL has been here since 15/12 and BIL was here for a week and a half and now FIL is here too. MIL has done a lot of washing and ironing for us since she arrived (but not anymore now we have p1ssed her off LOL), and occassionally I've left Tom with her when he was asleep while I ducked out, but in all that time not one of them has helped (or offered to help) cook, paid board or contributed to the cost of groceries. MIL has done the dishes twice. We have driven her around, to and from hossy as she hates driving, to look at flats, shopping etc. What exactly are we ungrateful for??? Anyway, vent over. ILs, what can you do!!