trishstar ah I remember the days of retail christmas working... ack, don't envy you. It'll be worth it having the week off over new year.
empress sorry to hear about your DH, hoping it leads to something better for him. My brother was fired about a month ago and has recently landed his dream job, he's the type that needs a rocket up his arse to get moving on things, he wouldn't have applied otherwise.
sorry to everyone suffering with colds/sore throats... you don't realise how much you rely on typical cold and flu relief remedies. I've been loving hot ribena [particularly the strawberry one] full of vit c and feels good on my tender throat. If you add a dispersable paracetamol it makes all the achey bits feel better for a while.
The only reason to go gentle on the Vicks, is because some of the menthol ingredients in large quantities are supposed to trigger labour [thyme for example] but I'm not sure I hold much by that... Otherwise it'd be recommended to encourage induction 
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Just finished DD's second birthday party with DH's family, it was lovely and the niece and nephew had fun playing with all her toys. Her actual birthday Tuesday and she is having some friends over for lunch after swimming. Made a delicious huge malteser cake. It is chocolatey heaven.
Lots of kicks this weekend, DH hadn't been able to feel them, but thought he'd try listening to the heartbeat instead, supposedly you can now hear this by just putting your ear to the bump. He got a kick in his ear for his efforts, which thoroughly excited him. This morning while lazing in bed, my bump was actually moving from the kicks, which had him super excited, DD wasn't that impressed though.