Tonight two shows in a row had me in tears. Haydon thought it was funny but he did get me a box of tissues and hold my hand.

First Izzy's fiance died on Gray's anatomy, and then an innocent woman was put to death on Criminal Minds so that her son would not find out his father was a murdering sexual psychpath.

Haydon is watching Boston Legal now - hopefully I can get through that without tears.

I am a bit of a crybaby at the best of times but add pregnancy hormones and please pass the tissues - no not one or two. Please pass the whole box!

Haydon got a text from his brother yesterday to say that they are expecting their first baby at the end of May. Quite exciting really, the two cousins will be 5 months apart. Unfortunately with the distance between Western Australia and New Zealand they will probably only get to meet about once a year when we head back to see Haydon's family.

Haydon asked if it was planned - the reply was something like "shit happens but it's all good". Guess Haydon is the only one of the 3 boys who managed to plan his timing for fatherhood.

We already have our tickets booked to take our baby to meet Haydon's mum in March so we will miss out on meeting the other new arrival this time. Haydon couldn't get holidays in April and he was not prepared to wait any longer to introduce his child to his mum.

It will be the first time he has seen her since last October. His mum has not seen him since his operations last year. Each time she talks to me on the phone she asks if he has had any seizures. So far I have been able to honestly say that he hasn't and things are going really well.

One of my good friends is ringing me tomorrow. She gets back from 6 years in Poland just after midnight tonight. I can't wait until she calls but I had better let her call when she has had a chance to sleep. We are going to see them this weekend.

Today I ordered the intro to modern cloth pack agethat mcm recommended. I am quite excited to have a look at it all. Haydon just says - lets use the good old fashioned much cheaper cloth fold them yourself nappies but he was ok with me ordering the pack.

Last night before I climbed into bed I stood gazing at Haydon. His last few hours of his 20's. Today he turned 30. He is not much of a breakfast in bed man so he got given coffee and a fresh peach.

His mum lives in New Zealand and I though she would probably call after he started work (1pm today) so I sms-ed her to let her know when he was starting. She rang and had a long chat with him.

I cooked him scrambled eggs with bacon and mushrooms for brunch. I thought I was timing it towards the end of his phone call from his mother but she talked on longer than we expected. I had to hold the phone to his ear so he could cut up his food. I couldn't leave it much later because if him having to get ready for work.

I made my first ever cheese cake today. It was a toblerone cheese cake for Haydon to take to work. It looked pretty good. I made a mini version of it for us to share before he went to work and it tasted ok too.

Last night I cooked a mini kangaroo roast with baked veg and a mini apple crumble for Haydon to take to work tonight.

I guess I am working on the theory that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

I am quiet tired now. Might need to have an afternoon nap before I try to get anything else done.

My toyboy  Haydon turns 30 tomorrow. He is at work until 9:30 tonight and then on-call overnight until 7 am and then he starts work at 1pm tomorrow. No special dinners for two. I am going to cook a mini kangaroo roast tonight so that I can give him a home cooked meal to take for dinner tomorrow night. I also plan on making him an apple crumble to go with it. Tomorrow I can either cook him pancakes or bacon and eggs with mushrooms for breakfast. Blast I forgot to get mapel syrup at the shop just then.

Haydon may be younger than me but I often say he is the mature one in the relationship. He has done so many amazing things. Before he smashed his ankle in a climbing accident he used to work doing vertical rescue. He would work winter in the US and then return home to New Zealand for their winter. He was a 10 year veteran of the New Zealand Mountain safety council when he was 26. When he was in high school he used to get picked up by the rescue chopper to help search for people lost in the mountains. One of the most amazing things about his accomplishments is that from the time he was two Haydon had severe epilepsy up until December last year when he had brain surgery (that story was another earlier blog -11 October Wedding Anniversary- what a year).

Now he is a nurse in a small country town in Western Australia. When I met him nearly three years ago he had just graduated (mature age student) and had come to Merredin on the nursing grad program as part of his plan to get into flight nursing in Canada. I did say we could follow the dream but he says that the shifts etc would not be suitable for a family man and that now he has the oportunity to have a family that is what he would prefer to do.

I know he is happy because I can see it but I keep wondering what such an amazing man sees in me.

But getting back to the birthday. The only thing he said he wanted for his birthday was hiking boots. I can't get them without him to try them on. We are in the process of building a big shed which will have workshop space for him so he said that is his present.

He is not a big crowd kind of a guy and hates suprises so no big party plans. We don't know many people in Collie yet anyway.

I am making him a toblerone cheesecake to take to work for tomorrow. I just found the recipe on the cream cheese packet a the supermarket, I have never made cheesecake before so wish me luck. I am hoping to get some energy this afternoon to make some pumpkin scones and do some other baking.

By 11 oclock this morning I was already back on the bed because I felt tired and unwell. I slept for two hours to get the energy to go down and do the shopping. I am really going to have to pace myself this afternoon. Haydon gave me my second weekly iron injection this morning. This pregnancy is really taking it out of me.

Yesterday I went down the hill to Bunbury to do some shopping, get the car checked and join my friend at her 'lunch with the girls'. It was nice to sit with a bunch of women and chat. We spent quite a while waiting for two of the girls to turn up so by the time we finished we had been in the coffee shop for just over 2 hours. I didn't get to do all my shopping. By 4 pm I was exhausted. I get a bit breathless in the afternoon. The midwife I asked said it was possibly due to my low iron.

I did manage to exchange the bassinette for one without a stitching fault,  exchange the faulty doorbell for one that works, buy a 'bodypillow', buy a new maternity top, a christmas t-shirt (long enough to cover my belly) and a boob-tube for wearing under my t-shirts to lengthen them during pregnancy and then to cover my belly while I breastfeed once the baby is born and I managed to get some fresh vegies at the farmers market. We can only get vegies at the supermarkets in Collie - not as fresh!

I had to lie down at my friends place for an hour before I had the energy to drive home.

Today it was the all day one off anti-natal class. It started at 8 am. They rushed through some of the bits I was most interested in - the relaxation techniques for labour and the breast feeding positions. I had been going to buy a triangle pillow but they advised against it. Said it went against the convenience of breastfeeding - 'are you going to carry the pillow with you everywhere?"

The big no-no's were;
-pillows, doonas, bumpers, soft toys etc in cots
-Jolly jumpers and walkers
-baby powder

I was exhausted by the end. There were about 27 people in the class (about 15 mothers to be). As the class was so big there was not that much 'get to know you' plus the fact being a small town most people new each other - except us new to towners!

Tonight Haydon cooked dinner- baked pork chops with sweet potato and potato. I just made the apple sauce and prepared the snow peas so we had some greens.

Tomorrow I get my next iron injection.

Today I was too tired to do much housework other than my swish and swipe and the load of washing I did this evening, which I must go and hang out!

This morning I was outside helping Haydon weed the garden by 8am.

My pregnant belly has been quite uncomfortable today but in little bits at a time I have weeded part of the front rose garden, scrubbed another section of the toilet walls, filled the bin with the weeds after it was emptied and put it out on the other side of the road to get emptied again (makes up for some of the times we forget to put it out on bin day). I have also managed to do a load of washing done. I only just hung it out at 5 o'clock but hey I did get it done. I have still got to get my dishwasher emptied and reloaded but I will get there.

Given how my body is feeling today I am actually quite pleased with what I have achieved.

Life is good

Today I went to a fundraisng lunch at the CWA (Country Women's Association). The funds were being raised for the newly established Collie branch of the Friends of the RSPCA (Royal Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). Two ladies from the RSPCA gave a short talk about the organisation. 

There was one table with 3 elderly ladies on it and they  talked their way through most of the speech. Some peoples manners don't improve with age! I wasn't the only one getting annoyed I could see other people turning around to look at them.

It reminded me of once at uni when I ran late for an 8 o'clock lecture and had to sit up near the back. I usually sat towards the front so I could read the board without wearing my glasses.  There was a group of people talking loudly nearby but not close enough for me to ask them to 'be quiet'.  I was getting really annoyed because I couldn't focus on what the lecturer had to say and human biology takes a bit of concentration - at least for me.

When the lecturer asked if anyone had any questions I put my hand up and asked  him if he could speak up because I couldn't hear him over his competition. He went to town on them. People came up  to me afterwards and thanked me because they too were having trouble hearing the lecturer. When you fight peak hour traffic and then fight for a parking space at uni the last thing you need is to not hear the lecture.

I nearly did it again today but decided to just be the 'nice quiet pregnant lady' rather than the 'bitch'. Time and place I guess or maybe I am just mellowing out in my old age.

Haydon set up the baby's cot this morning - it was given to us by my brother as his kids have outgrown it. At one stage we thought we had lost one of the brackets and the whole thing would be unusable. Luckily Haydon found the bit in the shed.

Then Haydon set up our new bassinette that we bought a few weeks ago. The stitching was faulty in one place and the fitted sheets that were supposted to be included were missing. I rang the shop and they said to just bring it back and they will exchange it for another one.

This afternoon I had a nap and planted out some more Kangaroo Paws in the garden bed that Haydon weeded yesterday. I hope the snails don't get them. Snails love kangaroo paws I have found.

I went to the family centre today for a cooking demonstration. Poor turnout there was only 3 of us and the guy doing the demo. Today it was tacos. We got to eat them for lunch. Hope they get more people for next week.

Haydon had the day off and mowed and weeded out the front. He has done a terrific job.

Today I managed to dust and then sweep and mop the floor in half the house. Tiring work for a pregnant lady. I had trouble breathing this afternoon. Nothing drastic just uncomfortable and kept yawning or feeling like I needed more air.

The snails have eaten many of the kangaroo paws, spinach and marrigolds that I planted recently. Today I put out the snail pellets. They say they are pet safe but to call the vet if your pet eats them??????

Tomorrow the CWA have a soup and sandwich lunch to raise money for the RSPCA. I think I shall head along. Hopefully this time I can eat my soup without pulling it over my lap curtesy of the table cloth. It was hot, and it did burn!- bit embarrasing too.

That's all I can think to write today. Life is good!
Kim

My belly has been quite uncomfortable today. I even stopped Minti-ing to go and lay down (fell asleep for nearly 2 hours). Baby is moving quite a bit.

One of my best friends is coming back from Poland. She has been living there for nearly 6 years and has not been back here during that time. She and her husband (who I met briefly in Melbourne a few times including at their wedding when I was a bridesmaid) and her 15 month old son will arrive in Perth at the end of the month.

In some ways it will be hard meeting her son because Elisha and I were only a week or two apart in our pregnancies a few years ago. We lost Baylee in the second trimester (17 weeks) because she had Turners Syndrome and had major deformities in most of her organs. Elisha's little boy will be about the age Baylee would have been if things had not turned out the way they did.

Haydon has 3 days off in early November so we will drive up to Perth (200km) and stay with my mum. We will catch up with Elisha, Nigel and Matt and with some other friends as well.

It will probably be our last trip to Perth for a while because I am the driver. Haydon should be able to apply for a drivers licence in mid January. His neurologist will be able to write him a letter to say he has been seizure free for 12 months since his surgery. It will be the first time in his life that Haydon has been allowed to hold a licence. I am more excited about it than he is. He says you don't miss what you have never had.

I set my timer to try to get a bit more done today. My 30 week pregnant belly is really tight and uncomfortable today. I spent 15 minutes + on chores and then 15 minutes sitting down usually minti-ing and then 15 minutes+ on chores again. If I was in the middle of a chore when the timer went and my belly wasn't too sore then I finished the chore before going to sit for 15 minutes.

I probably should keep setting the timer again this evening but I just can't be bothered. Hopefully my belly will be a little more comfortable tomorrow. I still have heaps of stuff I need to do.

Today I started my volunteer work. As I am not currently working due to my pregnancy and there being no speech pathology jobs nearly I decided to volunteer to help kids with literacy problems.

The Smith Family organisation has a branch in town that specialises in Kids literacy. They have lined me up to help a child at school on a Friday morning. Yesterday I put in my "working with children permit application" and today I went to the school.

Unfortunately the boy I will be working with was absent so I got to spend about an hour in a classroom observing news and helping mark spelling. I can't make it next week because we have our anti-natal class (all crammed into one day ). Hopefully the child will be there the following week.

I must admit I have missed working with children.

This afternoon Minti-ed (quite a bit), filed some paperwork, planted some capsicum and marrigold seedlings and walked down the road to pay the plumbers account.

A fairly quiet day for a pregnant lady. Tonight my husband will give me my first iron injection. I have to have one in my butt each week.  I am hoping I will have a bit more energy after that.

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second
Logan Pearsall Smith

Last year when Haydon and I were living in Merredin talking about moving south after his brain surgery we looked at maps and websites etc to help us decide where to move to. We chose Collie partly because of it's beautiful state forests and places to camp and hike (as Haydon is a nurse we also had to find a town with a hospital rather than just a nursing post for him to work at)

Collie is a beautiful place. Have a look at the website http://www.collierivervalley.org.au/attractions.htm

We also like it's proximity to Bunbury (60km) and Perth (200km) and the houses were more affordable which makes it easier to go down to one income to raise a child.

Today I am really mad. A few months ago when I was really sick with morning sickness my ex-husband gave me a box of my stuff (I had to go there to get it).

I recently went through the box and found a whole pile of my mail from the last few years since I left him. There was a cheque for $600 from May 2005 and some other documents that should have been included in my tax returns for the past few years.

I have dropped in a few times in the last few years to pick up my mail (what he could find at the time). Not that I should have had to. Most people forward mail on, or return it to the sender. It's not hard you just write on the envelope and put it in the mail box. Alternatively he could have dropped it off at my Dad's place just a few streets away and my Dad would have made sure I got it.

I sent the tax stuff to the accountant. He has had to resubmit two previous tax returns because of this stuff. That has cost me an extra $88 in fees. I am lucky that I got this stuff before the tax department found it was missing from my returns because that could have earned me a fine. I still have to hope that the Tax department does not decide to fine me when they get my resubmitted tax returns.

Before now I had been really proud of the way my ex and I handled ourselves with our divorce. It was peaceful (no kids involved thank goodness- and my refusal to have kids until we fixed the marriage).

Recently I found out that my ex was going to be a Dad. I was so excited for him I rang him up to congratulate him. He rang me on my honeymoon with my second husband to say congratulations. At the end of last year we even went out for coffee so he and Haydon could meet.

Now I am just mad and really disappointed. He didn't have to do much. I was the one that had the cost and hassle of moving (several times) all he had to do was forward my mail. I would have got around to changing addresses with the companies if I had been receiving my mail.

Both my parents (and they don't usually agree on anything) think that I got a bad deal in the marrige and the divorce. Now I just wonder if I things didn't appear peaceful because I was a  pushover and just took the shit. Whinge over. But it is hard not to get emotional when you are pregnant.

I just wote my blog - twice.

the first time it disappeared when I moved my cursor to the subject line so the second time when I had written it again I hit save. I got a red comment box telling me to enter a comment subject. Again as soon as I put my cursor in the subject box my blog disappeared. I am not typing it a third time.

Yesterday was our first wedding anniversary. Haydon arranged to have the day off work and we went to Donnybrook to check out the cider factory. Not a bad place, would have been better if they remembered the dipping sauce with our gourmet sausage rolls. We bought some of the sweet cider and ginger cider to take home. I had a tiny tiny taste - figured that quantity wouldn't hurt baby. I got breathalized 15 minutes after we left there - blew 0.00.

Then we went to Dardanup to the heritage park.  We just missed out on the milking display. They have an amazing range of old machinery - tractors, vehicles, old generators etc that they have restored. The have an old sawmill that they opperate on the first sunday of every month. We spent over two hours there and had a devonshire tea. A motor mad boy or man would love it. We are not motor mad but we enjoyed it.

We made dinner at home, just the two of us for a quiet meal. It was a lovely day.

Today Haydon is building the retaining wall for the shed. I have been doing a bit of housework. Need to keep sitting down to rest - hence the minti-ing. We have a friend coming for dinner. I am going to defrost the vegetarian lasagna I made the other day and make a salad.

I left the gate open when I brought the ute back from gettiing the cement for the wall. Our dog Zali got out and went exploring - including crossing a busy road. I was telling her to stay but she knew she was in trouble so she wanted to get home before I got to her. Luckily nothing was coming when she ran back across it. She got home safely.

Life is good

I am off to buy some readymix concrete bags. My hubby finishes an 8 hour shift soon and has requested that I get the concrete so he can get started on building the retaining wall.

I am feeling tired and my 29week pregnant belly is uncomfortable. All I have managed today is two load of washing (still need to hand the second one out) and to unload and reload the dishwasher. And i must admit I have been minti-ing a bit.

i think my husband must run on energiser batteries. i wish I could find some of his energy.

I am on a roll with posting photos now. Most of my photos are in the wrong format to post straight from the computer so I have to scan them, save them as jpeg files and eventually I get them into Minti. This is my second posting for fotofriday- now that I can actually do it.

It is our first wedding aniversary on Sunday so wedding photos feel appropriate. This was our wedding cake. Haydon chose the bride dragging the groom (there is fingernail marks from where she is dragging him). He said it was so far from the truth that people who know us would appreciate it (at least that is what he told me!). Haydon is a kiwi and I am an Aussie hence the kangaroo and kiwi that we had the wedding rings tied to.

Below is a photo of us with Haydon's nephew Dylan (the first photo of me I have posted on Minti).

This is my husbands neice Priscilla and nephew Dylan at our wedding last year. The wedding rings were tied to the kangaroo and kiwi. We had a bit of an Aussie Kiwi theme at the wedding (Haydon's the kiwi and I'm the Aussie).  We even recreated the famous underarm bowling incident with members of the wedding party. I got to bowl underarm to Haydon and some of our Aussie guests fielded. Our first wedding aniversary is this Sunday.

Since the wedding Haydon has had brain surgery three times, we have bought a house, sold two, moved towns, Haydon has moved jobs, I have stopped working, and we are expecting a baby. It has been a really full year. Life is good.

 

Today I went on a bus trip to Harvey (60km from Collie) with the ladies from the craft group. Usually I am the youngest one there but today one of the ladies brought her 14 year old grandaughter.

We had a lovely devonshire tea at a tearoom in a house in town (would recommend it if I could remember the name)  and then went to the cheese factory. It was raining on and off all day so we missed out on our wildflower walk.

We went to have a look at the Harvey Dam and amphitheater. If you are travelling down the South West Highway (Western Australia) and looking for a nice place to stop with clean toilets and a bbq area and beautiful surrounds (but no shop)  I recommend turning off the highway at the Harvey Dam sign (just as you go through Harvey).  The dam is only a couple of minutes off the highway. It is a lovely place, would be beautiful for a wedding or function or just to admire the scenery and tranquility.

We had lunch at Stirling Cottage near the visitor centre. Food was good, sandwiches were huge and the gardens were lovely.

Tomorrow I get to stay home and wait for the materials for our retaining wall to arrive. I had better do some housework too, have been a bit slack lately. Getting very tired with this pregnancy. Looking forward to our trip to Donnybrook on Sunday. It will be our first wedding aniversary. As I said in my blog yesterday so much has happened it is hard to believe it has only been a year. Life is good.

Haydon and I will celebrate our first wedding anniversary on Sunday. He has requested the day off work and we are going to drive over to Donnybrook and check out the cider factory and have some lunch. Haydon has never been to Donnybrook.

With everything that has happened since the wedding it is hard to believe it has only been a year. We got married in Palmerston North in New Zealand on the 15th of October last year. Two days later as we were sitting in a motel looking over Lake Tekapo my mobile phone rang. It was the receptionist from the neurosurgeon wanting to book Haydons appointment.

Haydon had been on the waiting list for brain surgery  (to reduce his epilepsy) in New Zealand for a few years before he moved to WA. Initally the Australian team said to stick with NZ then in October O4 they decided that they had more to offer him than New Zealand so he had to have all the tests again - takes about a year to get all the pre-tests done.

We knew that once the neurosurgeon's appointment come up things would start to move more quickly. We arranged his appointment for the day after we flew back to Perth. Then two weeks after his appointment they rang on a Friday morning and said he was booked in for surgery monday week.
We cried then pulled ourselves together and drove to the south west town of Collie. We had been planning on moving to the southwest after his op and Collie seemed like a good option. We put an offer in to buy a house in Collie on the Sunday, then went back to Merredin (about a 4.5 hour drive). 

On the 16th of November last year Haydon had his first brain surgery. Initally it appeared to have worked but then his seizures returned more frequent than before. Every time he fell asleep he had a seizure and woke himself up.

They did more tests and monitoring and offered to do a two step opperation where they put a grid on his brain and then put him back in a monitoring room for a few days so that they can record the seizure activity.   He had previously had the monitoring done through the skin and skull but this gives them more specific information. They cut the epilepsy medication during this time because they want him to have seizures. Then when they have enough data they put him in an ambulance and transfer him to another hospital where they remove the grid and cut the parts of his brain that they need to stop the seizures.

They did say that they had not previously done this opperation on a brain that had recently been opperated on before. Haydon's epilepsy had got to the point where even with medication it was stopping him working. It's a fine balance because too much medication makes him too drowsy to work safely. He is a nurse so it is important that he is alert and awake. We decided to go for the second set of operations.

They put the grid in his head on the friday and then took it out and did some cutting  4 days later on Tuesday the20th of December. 

The paper work went through on the Collie house on the 23rd of December and we went down to Collie for a few days from Boxing Day.

It is not unusual to have seizures in the first few weeks after the surgery as the swelling reduces. Haydon had his last seizure in early January (much smaller and quicker than previous seizures). Only a few weeks after his surgery Haydon was back working as a nurse in Merredin.

Then we had to finish fixing up and sell our Merredin house. I finished work in Merredin in mid March, Haydon started working in Collie just after that.

We had been trying to get pregnant since the wedding, at the end of April we found out we were five weeks pregnant. In June the paperwork went through for the sale of our Merredin house.

So much has happened in such a short space of time. Some of it was tough at the time but it has all worked out well. Now we are looking forward to the birth of our baby due at the end of December.

On Monday afternoon Haydon and I were at a friend's house having coffee when my mobile phone rang. It was my friend Katrina. She asked me to guess where she was calling from. I guessed Collie (the town I live in) she said 'yes but I am standing on your front doorstep and you're not home'. I gave her directions to join us at my friends place for afternoon tea.

Kat had come down from Perth to do a day and halfs work on the computer system for one of the local mining companies. It was the first time Kat had been to Collie since we moved here. It was nice to be able to show her our new house.

 We decided to suprise another good friend Maree who lives in Bunbury 60 km away. Haydon and I had already arranged to take Maree out for lunch on Tuesday for her birthday. I rang Maree and didn't mention Kat. I just said that there had been a change in plans and we were coming down the hill to go out for dinner with her and her husband (I did the bull dozer thing so she didn't have time to think or questions because I didn't want to spoil the suprise). Maree said ok but that Andy had beach volleyball and wouldn't be home until after 7.

Kat drove us down the car in her hire car. When we got to Maree's there was a note on the door to come in as she was in the bath. Just as well it was us at the door!

Katrina had to whisper so Maree wouldn't hear her voice. When Maree came out into the family room she was suprised and thrilled to see Katrina. When Andy got home his  expression was priceless.

Maree was happy to hear that we were still taking her out to lunch on her birthday.

We had a lovely dinner at Han's Cafe in Bunbury before Kat drove us back up the hill to Collie. The mining company was putting her up at the flash hotel in town-the Collie Ridge Hotel.

somtimes nice things just happen!

I just got a letter from the doctors surgery telling me that I am low in iron. I was feeling pretty good until I opened it, but now I feel very tired. The power of the mind.
I thought my tiredness and breathlessness when walking were just part of the pregnancy. Maybe if I boost my iron levels I will be able to stay up past 9.30 and maybe I will have a bit more energy during the day.
I had just bitten the bullet a few weeks ago and started taking a pregnancy supplement that has iron in it (and a dose of lactulose to keep my digestive system going). I hadn't done previously because I couldn't find one without iron in it and I have had horrible experiences in the past with taking oral iron supplements.
In the past when I have needed iron I have had to have a jab because of my difficulties  with oral iron supplements. I might be in for another iron jab.
I hope my iron levels have not affected the baby's development. Hopefully the baby has taken what it needs and just left me low. I am seeing the doctor next Thursday.

Thankyou Matthew, Rachel and Clay and the rest of the Minti Community.

Congratulations to the TheMentorMum for  winning the Roomba too.

I'm in shock. My husband tells me we will need to vacuum up all the dust jarred free by a pregnant lady dancing around the office. He has been complaining about the amount of time I spend on Minti but now I will be able to tell him I am vacuuming the floor while I am Minti-ing.

Thankyou also for a great site. It is great to read advice and comments from people who have already been there. I am still scared about this parenting thing. Terrified in fact. But thanks to Minti I have found great articles and comments on birth plans, behaviour management, feeding, what to pack for the hospital, household organisation (boy do I need that!) and a whole pile of other things. Some articles make me think, some articles inform me, some articles make me feel for the author and what they have experienced, some articles just make me shake my head and some articles make me laugh. Haydon and I especially love the 'family funnies'.

Thankyou again
Kim