hi girls! just a quickie as miss l has the beginnings what appears to be a mega cold...arrghhh!

Sherie: i know! i thought that once we had this extra bit of ommph money that we would be able to buy something decent. but looks as though if you want to live inner suburbs you are dreaming. that said our new 'dream' house is a big old deceased estate with 4 rooms LOL! they say 590+ but i guess we are dreaming for this area!! such a shame we work in town otherwise i would head out rainy's way...absolutely love it up there.

Oz: we are in the same boat with the TT. she seemed to be going great guns for ages there, then she got scared of it, so we have pulled right back. only now is she starting to curious again...i guess these things (like sleep) will just happen when they happen.

PP: oooh i didnt know latina did kids stuff! you know what i am getting now LOL!

MD: we do the yoghurt and fruit for 'yummies' after dinner too. that way the guilt doesnt seem too bad if most of dinner ends up as 'wall art'.
the article is at this moment 'academic'. i am hoping to chuck it into some international journal (less nepotism and dramas than the oz ones). but if it turns out ****e then i might sell it to 'the australian' LOL!

Gypsy: i also went straight to the drs LOL! she didnt confirm it though as she told me that a +tve test is +tve! ah well, luckily she was right that time! would have loved to have known about dating scans though!

Sherie: eek! about the water tank and oil! it is so true that they are really going nuts with the imitating now. oohhh mini quiches!!! my favourite.

Noni: we had a similar experience on saturday. leila only did 40 minutes and she was nightmarish that evening. ended up giving her a bath with lavender oil to calm her down. kinda worked (well at the very least it calmed me down LOL!).

AFM: i know. the house prices here are bananas. i cant quite believe it. i think that prices this year have, contrary to the media reports, gone up. the first home buyers market is through the roof with ppl quickly getting in before the grant 'ends', and i heard from a solicitor friend of mine that investors are doing the dodgy down here and putting the new investment properties in their kids names, claiming the grant money and then using a loophole to change the terms of contract so they dont have to live there. i didnt think it was possible, but according to him it is everyday practice. makes me so mad. ah well. what can you do??
i'm trying to convince DH of the joys of just buying a lovely holiday home down the coast instead LOL!
Leila is also getting pretty crook. she spent the whole night trying to cough her lungs out. doesnt have a temp and is active, although she is not eating. so always a good sign that things are not great in Leila-land.

our quick meal that is always a winner is fish curry. white fish fillets cut up with some sprinkling of garam masala fried with garlic and onion and coconut cream then towards the end some spinach or bok choy (or similar thrown over the top like a blanket and the lid of the frypan put on top for 5 minutes and voila in about 10-15 minutes it's all done. Miss L loves it and so do we!