Clare - your place sounds so great, are you going to put some photos up? PLEASE!!!!

Leanne - enjoy your meetup!! Lucky ducks

Secret Santa - not doing it, I always struggle to think of things for stuff like that.

MD - hope the gastro fairy has kept away.

Noni - woohoo on your job, awesome news!!

MM - well done on the payrise

Arte - main tips from the library session were how important communication is with children. Keep talking to them and doing lots of reading. When reading, try and relate things back to their lives. One tip I liked which I might try is to make up cards of a sentence from their favourite book and talk about the words and the order they go in.

On a similar vein how are kiddies at understanding letters etc? Everytime K sees M or D she points and says Mummy, Daddy. She also know I (for her cousin Issie) and K for Katie plus a few more.

DH and I had our first night back in the same bed after 10 nights apart on DD molar duty in the spare room. I only had to go and check on her once and that was because she'd fallen out of bed (yay for low toddler beds).

We have a housecleaner coming around tonight to have a look around and she can start on Wednesday!!! She is the mum of one of DH's students (didn't realise until I spoke to her today). His response was 'how embarrassing, what are you expecting her to do?'. I said I'd clean K's streak marks off the toilet, but pretty much everything else she can do. I just can't wait to be able to come home to a clean place. This weekend I was getting my hair cut on Sat morning and then DH had cricket Sat afternoon and all day Sunday. By the time I did the washing and got dinner ready, there was no time to do any housecleaning so the place is a mess. Unfortunately, that is a standard weekend for us!