Arte, the Bryce this is the one I'm going to. The other one was my DoD sponsored Sydney trip. Nice, by the way. I advocated hard and a couple of my ideas got up - one of them was so sticky someone else picked it up and ran with it. Hopefully it will lead to positive change (but I'm not holding my breath, JIC). LOL at you being such a Zero Deniar. BTW how's the new place going, have you got the mice & heating etc all sorted out?

Cass - yay for you moving again - gosh that's gone so fast. I can't believe it's MAY already! I hope you take lots of photos on your road trip - sounds gorgeous. Tornado schnornado. Just keep on truckin!

Ginger - hmmm - re FB - it depends on the depth of the original connection, for me. I recently friended someone I hadn't seen for about 15 years - we were friends when we lived in the same town but so much harder to maintain that connection over multiple moves. Anyway it has been a real delight to reconnect and I can't imagine that she feels any different. And when I was in Sydney I looked up a friend I hadn't seen since DD1 was 6 months old - it was fantastic. BUT having said all that, I've ignored plenty of friend requests as well, from people I haven't shared that closeness with - I think it's kinder to never friend in the first place than friend then de-friend.

MP - I know it's hard to hear you've missed an issue like eyesight, but that's probably a good sign that he's been compensating really well, and you provide a rich multisensory environment for him to learn in too. Well done picking it up so early, it takes many families a lot longer!

Good reminder to get my girls' eyes checked - thanks.

Trill - yes it is like the rules have changed overnight (re soc media). But on the other hand it gets some things out and more visible whereas perhaps they might've been trickier to identify. Put it this way, it's taken exactly one week of DD being on FB for me to identify exactly who the biartches are. And it's an angle into some conversations about particular dynamics. But I can tell you a lot of parents are *not* scrutineering their little darlings online (at all). BTW how's the semester going for you?