Due Jan 2009!!!

I really should change my ticker cos we have nowhere near 82.1% anymore, probably closer to 2.1%

Nah we haven't done roof yet, no idea how much that is gonna cost, we had someone who is doing a quote to put a coating in on it but they actually said we should get it replaced (dunno why they are still doing the quote really!). We had the house valued today and then we need to get quotes on having the roof replaced....eeeek. So we are hoping there is enough equity in the house to pay for it.

The flight money will most likely get spent on a car for DH though as $1750 (what we got from insurance) doesn't get you much.

We might have enough to take some out of the house to go to England too, otherwise we are just gonna go on holiday to Australia or rarotonga or somewhere and then start saving again for England. We definitely are overdue some sort of holiday

Meant to say too that crap about the roof and the insurance money for the car. My house needs a new roof too - got told 3 years ago it would only probably last another year at most but I just keep getting it fixed. We got quotes of between $10k - $26k and there is no way I can afford that! Hope yours works out ok.

I got all my teeth early and lost 'em early - had them all by 19 months and started losing them at 4. Apparently according to my plunket book the kindy teachers had never seen a child who had lost teeth already. I had all my adult teeth before I was 7. We might be late movers in my family but we make up for it with teeth

Evening all - hope you all had a great long weekend, ours was great, caught up with some friends and actually went out for dinner with DH on our own which is not something we do very often.

Re the teeth haha i had a look tonight and Grace has loads, not sure when they all arrived but dont seem to of bothered her that much.

Nits are still annoying us and gosh they are time consuming to get rid of them but we are getting there. Just when you think got them all you have a look and the little sh*ts have turned up again only takes you to miss one egg and it is all on again.


In for another busy week but nothing unusual there for us. Hope you are all good and surviving this crappy weatther that seems to be with us all at the moment.

Weekend hasn't been too bad but I have ended up with a stinky cold so taking the day off tomorrow. Don't really fancy going out in the crappy weather and getting even sicker.

Not much else to report here. Hope you get rid of the nits soon Pickle.

Gabrielle is 18 months today! Man does time fly.

Glad to hear others have high mortgages too. We are totally swamped by ours. We have 2 properties and are paying $1150 per fortnight!!!! I have just lost an afternoon's work a week so it bloody tight...in fact its impossible! We are wanting to sell our rental but even thats hard to do when we arent in the area to do the touch ups needed before selling and we cant afford to have it untenanted for even one week...sigh!

James may be brewing croup too. He started coughing a little last night and it had that barking sound but it was mild. Croup is going around here so I wouldnt be suprised if tonight it hits hard...oh joy....that would mean time off work tomorrow.

He is wanting his day sleep earlier and earlier. He is now going down at 10.30am! And the little monkey is getting very demanding. He is refusing to wear bibs, refusing to eat dinner, standing up at the table, refusing to sit down....etc etc. Thankfullly Tom seems to be getting marginally more compliant but is it too much to ask for them both the be good at the same time?

Anyway, I better get off the computer and give Tom some attention before I put him to bed. I am waiting on the sky man to ocme. WE are getting mysky (yeah, I know.....we cant really afford it...so we are paying the lump sum and then we can forget about it )

Our mortgage is steep, we bought our place on close to 100% finance eek! But we are on a 17 year mortgage so we are knocking it out with massive payments... we pay $510 a week now, it used to be $670 a week! Soon we will start paying extra cos the aim is in two years to buy a new house and hopefully keep this one as it would make a perfect rental.

Hugs to all the sick bubs - it's so not fair the poor things!

I had a whole week off work last week with the orst flu of my life - thank goodness teh kids didn't get it. I could barely look after them though and boy lil miss knew it - I am now on damage control as she got a way with a lot last week and seems to think she still can...

How are you guys going with brushing teeth? Tane hates it and just closes his mouth tight. I am used to Gabrielle who has always loved it - she still thinks it's a treat to clean her teeth.

yeah mine have always loved it, they seem to love sucking water off the brush and will usually let me do some brushing. Have you tried using toothpaste? S hated having his brushed until he had toothpaste then he was into it, I hadn't given him paste cos i thought it might put him off even more but it did the trick.

Our mortgage was a 30 year one so we are now down to the 25 that most people start at...lol. Ah I'm not really laughing out loud, more laughing instead of crying.
Our mortgage was fixed at 6.99 so not sure what to do now, whether to go floating cos it will be cheaper and risk them going up or refix it but will be more expensive. Wish someone would do another 6.99 for 5 years deal, would happily sign up for that again.

We are thinking if we don't make it to England we will try to budget in a trip to rarotonga or maybe aussie, was looking up holidays this morning and they aren't as pricey as I thought they would be so should be a possibility and will make up in part if we can't go back.


K is very defiant too, lucky food is not an issue cos he troughs like a pig but everything else is. Yesterday he was standing on the train table, I told him to get down, then I said I'm gonna count to 3 then your in time out, I went 1 and then he said 2. How cheeky is that?