Hi Trill

Totally recommend a Kindle for A - it has saved me an absolute fortune with W! They are somewhere around $130 to buy, but the books are at least half price through the official amazon store and more free than that if you look around.

Minecraft seems to be the way of life for this age group! W has mostly moved on to GMod now, but he spent a large amount of time Minecrafting before that. I am trying to find some beginner programming programmes for him. He would enjoy being able to make his own mods for things.

A did have a small head at birth, but so did the others. I guess time will tell. She is achieving at expected levels in all academic areas and she is happy and chatty so it is not a huge concern.

Sounds like your kids are doing really well It is really hard to imagine them all grown up and leaving home!

DH left yesterday. It was as horrible as you would imagine a father walking away from his kids would be. Separating does not mean your parenting obligations end, or that you can just leave your kids! I am so angry at him for doing that to them. Trying to cover for him and told them that he had to take a job away, but in reality he could have stayed here if he wanted to. Not covering to protect him though - I just don't want the kids to feel like he chose money over being with them. Which he ultimately did but them knowing that won't help.