Wow I can't believe how quickly the months have flown by and finally I am back to Minti.  Thankyou to everyone who emailed and kept popping in on my page. Lots has been happening to my large family, firstly we had a stressful 7 weeks leading up to April as our owner decided to sell our house and wanted it vacated, so I looked high and low at lots of houses, but as time got closer we couldn' find one, so with 1 week to go, my brotherinlaw suggested we make the big move to the Blue Mountains NSW as his friend had a place we could stay in until we decided what we would do.  Hubby was away working for 2 weeks, so the elder 3 kids and I did all the packing, amazing how much stuff you accumlate in a house after 6 years lol, I ended up saying ok we really have to throw unneccessary things away!!  On Friday 11 April, our movers arrived loaded up our possessions into a huge truck and away it went for the 2 hour journey to our new home.  We followed behind a few hours later, after cleaning the house till it shone lol.  We stayed in our new place for 4 weeks, it was rather small and cosy but we enjoyed it, much better than being homeless thats for sure.  I ended up finding a large family home for us to rent up in the Mountains, we made the decision to stay here as it is so much more affordable than Sydney, also the people are so friendly, the life style so laid back and everyone has time for each other.  What a fabulous place to bring up the kids.  So our new advenutre in life has begun.  The little 6 love it here, the little 3 at school enjoy it so much, and my 3 elder ones, took a while to settle in but now they have made new friends, joined the local rugby league team, they are happy and even better to report is that they are enjoying their new school.  So there it is in a nutshell, now I have time to be back on Minti so I look forward to catching up with everyone.  Have a fabulous weekend and stay blessed  :-)