I'm so glad that today is almost over!!

After Austin having a temp thismorning - thanks to everyone who gave advice - he seems fine now, his temp is back to normal. Thank god. Not sure how much more sooking i could handle. Lol

I have spent the rest of the day cleaning, washing and packing to go away for the weekend. I am going down to Sydney tomorrow and spending the night with my sister and my nephew. I am so excited to see them, i haven't seen them since Austin was 3 weeks old. I am then heading up to the central coast to catch up with my ex-boss and his wife, 2 other girls i used to work with are coming up with their partners and 1 with her baby aswell so it will be like a fun family reunion. I cant wait!!

I forgot how much crap you have to take with you when you go away!!! I am taking my MIL's car coz mine has no aircon at the moment and her car is about half the size of mine. I have put the car seat in, packed the pram, portacot, MASSIVE bag of stuff for Austin, much smaller bag of clothes for me. (why does someone so little require so much stuff??), the bouncer, play gym, christmas pressies for Angelique and Tyson. And now i'm left wondering if i will actually get into the drivers seat. I need to learn how to pack a car like dad does!! LOL

Anyway... Thats all from me for the moment. Hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

Cass xx

I'd just like to say a very special farewell to one of my closest friends. She is leaving for Kenya today. She will be living over there for the next 12 months teaching children how to speak english. I am so very very proud of her and i know she will be wonderful, but i am going to miss her terribly. She has been a true friend to me throughout the years and i love her to pieces. I wish her all the best and cant wait to hear all about it!

Hey all

Has anyone get any cost effective ideas for christmas pressies fo the grandparents from bub? This is our first christmas so i would like it to be something special, but we dont have alot of money to spend. Any suggentions would be great as i am stuck on ideas past photos...

Hi all

I'm having trouble uploading photos. They are all under 2mp and jpg. But i am getting a message saying they are invalid files.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

Thanks Cass

I cant get over how much i laugh these days!! My gorgeous little man has just learnt how to scream/gurgle at me... He had just finished a feed today and while i was burping him (well trying) he started to squeal at me and then he'd gurgle a bit and then he combined both together... It was so funny!!!

It was only just a few weeks ago that he realised he had hands and now everything goes in his mouth... Last week he discovered his feet... Althou he hasn't figured out how to reach them yet! and today new noises... I think i might try to make this new noise my ringtone!!

I dont think i will ever get used to this. Every day something new happens. It is so wonderful!

Hope you are all having as good a day as i am!!!

Cass xx

This has been bugging me for 2 weeks now! Is Bear in the big blue house a puppet or does he have a man inside there? I am confused, as a puppet he is massive and you cant see the poles like you can with the other characters, but he only ever moves one arm, so how could he be a man?????

I am really enjoying this site! It is priceless having so many people to ask for advice from. Thank you to all the people who have sent comments to my questions. I never would have figured out some of this advice on my own! Or maybe i would have, it may have just taken a while! Lol!

Thanks again for making this such a welcoming and enjoyable place to be!

Cass.

Good morning everyone!

I just had to make a note of this today... I am so excited... My best friend, that i have grown up with since i was in primary school, just got engaged last night! Her "fiance" proposed to her on the beach and then took her to one of the best restaurants in town! I'm so so soooo happy for her!

Oh, and i get to be bridesmaid! Bout time i started working on loosing my baby belly!

Yey!!!!

Hello everyone and thanks for all the welcomes so far!!!

My name is Cass, i have a 3 month old baby boy, who i love and adore more than i thought humanly possible. I have always known that i was meant to be a mum and now that i am a mum i am sooooo happy!

My story starts back when i was 15, my mum passed away. The docs couldn't give us a reason as to why she had died, so i had to live with the fact that when your time is up, your time is up. I found comfort in knowing that she is in a better place now. I had a few friends that were there for me, but most didn't know what to say or do, so they avoided me.

Not long after this i decided that i would leave home. I moved in with my boyfriend, who turned out to be the biggest mistake of my life, whilst living with him i developed a nasty habit on speed and pills and my life slowly started drifting south. I spent the better part of the next 6-7 years on and off drugs, finally developing an addiction to ice. I made lots of friends, and lost lots of friends, i had alot of fun, but looking back it wasn't real. Everything that i lived for was a joke! I battled with severe weight loss (i weighed 47kgs) paranoia, suicidal thoughts, sleep deprivation and i daresay slight insanity at times. I got to the stage where i couldn't even smile because i knew i wasn't happy. It was just a sugar coating.

I made the decition at christmas time 2 years ago that i needed to reclaim my life, and the only way i could do this was by leaving everything i knew and starting again. I was 23 and had nothing to show for all i had done in my life so far. So on Australia day 2006, i pack what little stuff i had and caught a train to Lithgow and a bus to Mudgee. I am proud to say that on that date next year i will have beed drug free for 2 whole years!

I am not happy with the decisions i have made in the past, but i have learnt from them. I now know that there is more to life than partying and transparent friends. I can now say that i have about 5 close friends who have known me thru all of my dramas and are still people who love and respect me. For that i am truly thankful, because without these few people, i doubt that i would be here today.

So that sort of brings me to now. I met Shannon not long after moving to Mudgee and i found that he was the first person that i felt comfotable with telling everything to. He is my best friend, my soulmate. When we are together everything is right. I do love him with all my heart.

When we found out we were pregnant, we weren't sure what to do, i was ready, but he wasn't sure. We talked it out and decided that no matter how long we left it that money / stability / work was always going to be an issue, so here we are now. We have a beautiful little boy who we wouldn't trade in for the world.

I can now say "I am happy"