Hi ladeees!!

How are you all? We are going ok, though I am trying to prepare myself for DH working 7days straight....4day shifts and 3 night shifts. Days are fine, particularly as some days he's home by 3.30pm, it's the nights that I hate! But he has to work and I need to get over this stupid phobia I seem to have developed since moving out here! I used to get a bit anxious when we lived in Sydney, but here it can be full on anxiety attacks, I feel nausious, dizzy, breathless when he's leaving for work....and it's so silly! Ahh well,I will get used to it all, it has only been 12 weeks since we came here.
We are going to Sydney if a week and a half!! I'm looking forward to seeing friends and family. It's Liam's birthday then too so we will have a little party there, plus my bday is a few days later (OMG, 32!! I'm starting to feel old, lol!) so I am going on a shopping spree with my tax money! Sunglasses, some nice maternity bras (are there any such things?? LOL!) new underware, shoes....maybe a massage and haircut/colour too! I need some spoiling Plus I am having a kids-free day and I'm going to lunch with friends, and I'm hoping to offload the monsters to my SIL and/or mum so Damien and I can go out for dinner and a movie one night. For the first time in I can't remember, it will be luverly!

Kris, I'm planning on a tummy tuck in a few years too, plus some boobies too I think. We will need about 5ish years to save for it all though! When I lose this horrible weight (I will probably have at least 30kg's + to lose to get back to my pre baby weight) I am thinking my poor boobies will just be pancakes on my chest by then! I am so looking forward to likeing how I look again. It's been a loooong time since I have liked looking at myself in a mirror and I avoid all contact with them when I'm naked!
EEK @ your dentsit bill! I hate the dentist and haven't been since just before I got pg with Lily! I need to start to take the kids regularly and should go myself too. Damien also needs to go and hasn't been in even longer than me!

Dis, Damien is the same with our kids too. He doesn't mind to have them on him and playing, rough housing and cuddling them, but they just seem to naturally navigate to me when I'm sitting on the lounge watching TV or whatever, they HAVE to be on me. No matter if there's a seat for them sit on or not, they sit on me. I do love hugs and kisses, but because I'm not getting anybreak from them at all at the moment, it's making me crazy to have them on me all the time.
9mths mat pay for you, wowee!! You're a lucky girl! They're are definately looking after you.

Mel, it's kinda scary how fast time flies when you're pg huh? Can't believe you're almost 30wks! Wow!! These first weeks are going fairly slowly for me, but I think it's because I hadn't felt bubs moving and was always worrying about if she (it!!) was ok. Now I'm feeling at least 1-2 little nudges each day things seem to be going a bit faster because I'm not constantly worrying if things are good! I'm 17weeks, almost 18 according to my own dates, lol! Nearly half way there. My back is telling me baby is getting rather large now, as are my hips. I am getting a stabbing pain in my right ribs already if I sit or lay down in one spot for too long. I so want to enjoy this pg, but my body is just so unfit and temperemental this time! Hopefully I can enjoy some of it....I am at the moment, especially the little kicks, and my belly even though it's ginormous! I think I will grow into it soon, lol!

Well, our car died a week or so ago. We went to Griffith for what should have been a day trip (a 3 1/2 hour drive to and fro!) but it turned into an overnighter because our car carked it. I was worried we'd get stucka nd have to hire a car or it would die on the return trip, but we made it back the next day thatnkfully! We had to have it patched up while we were there so we could get home again! But it is sooo not drivable now. We were going to take it to Sydney but it's too dangerous. We need to buy a new car. Which in a way is good because now we can get one that will definately fit in the kids and seats and all of that, but financially it's a bit sucky, though we will ab able to do it. We had planned for a new car next yr or the yr after anyway. Just brings our plans up a little earlier! Plus it's going to be much more exxy for this trip to Sydney since we need to hire a car now to get there and get around for a week. Luckliy our tax has come in and reimbursements from Damiens work have finally come though (only 10 weeks late!) so we have all our money back to where it was before. Not that we're rich, far from it but we're not going fortnight to fortnight now. Plus with the new financial year, I'm now getting my parenting payments too (I had earned too much last financial year to get anythign!)

Ok gotta get the monsters ready for their naps. Hope you're all well. xx