Hey Girls.....

Alison - Bummer about the hearing test, but you really have to go to something like that....will you take Amelia with you??? I hear you about the shopping thing....poor DH and I rarely go anywhere together anymore cause it's such a pain and JD is so naughty so I usually wait until one of them is asleep then I head out and do it on my own or vice versa...if JD wasnt such a nightmare then it would be a much less painful experience...hope you have a better night tonight...mine's not looking that promising so far...

tellytubby - Good on Theo for being such a great sleeper!! I'm the same with you about going out and meeting new people...I'm super lazy and just couldnt be bothered (isnt that terrible??). I have a few good school friends that I'm in touch with and see regularly but thats about it...I have a close girlfriend that lives a block and a half away and I'm flat out seeing her once a fortnight let alone taking on any new commitments!!! Very slack but it's just so damn hard sometimes and I dont have the energy to be bright and happy and making conversation with people...frig I'm sour!

Alison - You have become SuperMum havent you??!?!?! Yay for V for behaving herself for you..what a good girl!! Dont know about the Mastitis...wasnt so much the boob giving me problems it was the fever and my body being so stiff that knocked me about...2 days in on the pills though and feeling good now...thanks for the lovely comment on Abbey...her and V look alike with their dark mane's...DH's will have to have their shotguns ready in 15 years time!

billykat - I admire you for wanting another little one...they are lovely when they are so little and innocent arent they...I look at Abbey sometimes and think maybe, just maybe and I've already told everyone we have a pigeon pair and that's it but I guess you never know....I couldnt imagine myself having 2 kids and now I do. The Today show had a couple on this morning that have 13 kids and she's pregnant with their 14th....insane I reckon but the kids all seemed well behaved...god, when do they have time to DTD??? I'm too exhausted to do it with only 2 kids!

AFM - I'm feeling like I should have a routine going and I have nothing...some days I feel like she's on the boob all day and that she should be over doing that but if she's going ballistic then that's the easiest thing to get her to settle down so I just shove her on...I never know when she's going to go to sleep and wake up etc...my step sister has a little boy 3 months older than her and he has being doing his thing perfectly for months now, so probably from her age onwards...he's only up for an hour at a time and then sleeps for 3 or so hours...Abbey is up for hours at a time and only sleeps for 20 min's sometimes.. I'm such a control freak and I cant control this...I just want her sleeeeeeep for a decent amount of time puhlease...maybe I dont have enough milk or something and that's why she's waking up? I dont want her to vomit though if I top her up with formula and that's not really the problem (she's done this to me before...)

DH is pretty good but we have been at each other's throats the last couple of days...there is just no time out between the 2 kids (even though my mum is good and takes JD a bit there's still Abster the nutter of course) and are just snapping at each other constantly....just have no patience..between JD playing up constantly and Abbey being attached to me it's just not enjoyable at all. Mum took JD for the night last night and you'd think he'd be happy about that but noooo....I said that he is much better over there for the night having fun with her and being the centre of attention than being here and being screamed at every 2 minutes and DH had organised to go on Xbox with his mates anyway so it's not like he'd be spending time with him - I'd be dealing with it!! Men....I could run away and be a recluse sometimes for sure

Sorry for the selfish post and the ranting and raving...

Hope everyone is cruising along OK...
Shayna