LOL Leanne at adventure outing. Sound like you may need to use the Force Gosh I remember the Griswalds so well - we used to watch them all the time cause Dad was a huge Chevy Chase fan. I do like to watch the Griswalds family Christmas every year though - still makes me laugh.

Kate, good to hear it's clearing for her. I was wondering how you got on with it.

MD, you had a great day yesterday by the sound of it! LOL at H's sleepover antics The meds are going well thanks for asking. No side effects so far *fingers crossed*. I take the MTX on a friday, and then 5mg of Folate (which is a super high dose - you only need 0.05mg for pg) on Sun, Mon, Tues, Wed to combat any possible damage the MTX is doing. I *think* I am starting to see a difference cause it doesn't look so red and angry looking now but it can take a few weeks to see clear results from it.

Clare, Alister eats far more crap food than the other kids ever did at that age - he will either pinch it off them or sit there all puppy dog eyes till they give him some - he certainly has them worked out. And when he sees lollies he acts like he's starving too and throws tantrums when he does't get any.

Ange, I do know that some kids can get an excess of mucous etc from cow's milk and can get really congested from it Sometimes it's an allergy/intollerance and other times its just one of those things kwim? I've always been really slow with introducing cows milk fully to all of mine cause of the runny bums etc - even though they were already on formula. You could try soy or even rice milk and see if that makes a difference. And the cows milk is still a bit different to yoghurt etc too - not sure why, but it doesn't seem to affect them the same.

Awww Cally, how was last night? I hope she was OK once she was asleep for you. It's awful when you don't know how to *fix* it and nothing is working.

Noni, how are you feeling this morning? I hope you're better. I suppose this is the time of year when people might be more inclined to buy because of Christmas coming up etc. *fingers crossed* for you that you get some sales.

Well yesterday I went over to Mums cause she was getting her Chrisco yesterday and every year I go and take the stuff that they don't eat, plus she gives me a box of choccies. But this year she'd actually brought us a hamper of our own! (For those of you that may get Chrisco - do any of you get it? can't remember, anyway it was the kids mega hamper) so instead of taking home a bag or two of stuff and a few frozens, I had the back of the car choca-block full with three boxes of food and two big esky's of frozens! How good is that? She thought that things might be bad again this year on the farm so she wanted to get us a hamper so we didn't have to spend so much on groceries bless her. So I hope that it will help lower the grocery bill for a while because for the past month it's been over $300 per week - without meat! Everything is just so expensive here and it doesn't matter where I shop, it's the same everywhere. So anyway, when she goes to give me my box of choccies, she had a sml and a large box of cadbury roses and said, which one do you want? And I said "I can't believe you even have to ask me that!" LMAO. Bet you can't guess which one I took