I LOVE your photos Maz... how do you get him awake without the squarks??? Actually, Jack has lots of time without squarking, but I'm too giddy with wonder that I fail to pick up the camera... Bad mum I am.

I had to diffuse MIL situation today. She has been feeding off my stress (all internal - I freak sometimes about not being a good mum, and am also the sort of person that needs a cry sometimes), and that has been stressing her. She announced to DH this morning that her & FIL were checking into a hotel & would be flying out before the end of the week. Suffice to say, DH was devastated. He loves his parents dearly, and thanks to his ex-wife, didn't get to talk to his mum for 5 long years. He was really terrified that his mum had taken something the wrong way, and he wasn't going to see her again for a long time. All morning we were trying to convince her to stay, and it was met with a stubborn 'no', and some story about us needing to settle back into our lives. It took until DH was about to drive them to the hotel (with tears in his eyes & a look of defeat that breaks my heart) to finally convince her to stay.
*hugs* re: MIL...it's hard sometimes to keep everyone happy as well as yourself..vent away here, at least then you won't be bottling it up and it may help you deal with the situation whilst you MIL is visiting xxxx

I have gotten into a habit of whipping the camera out and the older kids now just groan, lol...I have also decided to start taking some pics of luke in all the cute outfits he has been given before he grows out of them!! so tomorrow it will be crochet/knitted items, lol...(as they are the smallest) then I can send photo's to everyone who gave him something special of him in it or with it...(which I never did with the other boys and some stuff never got used)