Arte. Yes DH is home and we now have a stint at QE2 booked and E is now sleeping nicely and getting up twice and going back down easily. The irony of that does not escape me. Who knows, it could just be all my efforts finally paying off. How are you feeling hun, hope that new tooth pops through so he's happy again soon. BTW well done for standing up for yourself at school!

E is pulling up on everything she can find now, we had a (funny for us) moment when she pulled up on a drawer that came out, she was dangling backwards holding on and squeaking when we rescued her. The drawer locks I've been nagging DH about suddenly got installed after that LOL! Oh and she's happily clapping too. Looks very pleased with herself when she does it.

Well Gracie, I've still got TDE, let us know how it goes. Thanks for that recommendation, I've reserved a couple of books at the library by him about resilience, esp in the 10+ age bracket (rapidly approaching in our house)!! I think DD was actually fretting about it more than she let on, she's been happy as larry all weekend and looks (physically) like there's a load off her shoulders.

BTW looks like I might be joining you in SAHMism for a while longer. Have discussed it with DH, with his trip and the move it's best if I apply for another 12 mths of leave without pay, that gives me another 6 or so months after we move to find more work (when I'm good and ready ). I'm pretty pleased cos I felt from the very beginning that 12 mths mat leave was just too short, 18 mths really the minimum I want before a gradual transition back to part time work. Just means we need to be a more frugal as our savings have just run out.

Sherie, I'm jealous of your new underwear. It's wall to wall maternity bras at my house - all starting to look pretty tired - all my undies are getting rather sad too.

Noni, yep it's a public school but our area school cluster is on the leading edge on restorative practice - they even had teachers go off to some huge international conference to present a paper about the model and how it's been working in our school! Haha in a private school they can just chuck the bullies out but in public schools they can't do that!

BTW I am spewing because I went to Target and they told me the FP sale was finished! Not happy Jan when some of you are still having it!