Afternoon all,
for sparkle, - my MIL was great one for passive aggressive remarks, and it's horrible. I think the MN solution to MIL's saying horrid things is to reply 'did you mean to be so unpleasant?' - might be worth a try 
Gig - your DC your choice as far as play group is concerned. In my own personal experience, I caught whooping cough as a child after I'd had half the immunization (in those days you had half as a baby and half when you were five I think) anyway I was very ill, and I missed starting school on time. So kids do pick things up before they've finished the course of vaccinations, - tough luck on the nanny if you don't want to risk it.
MAS your blog is very interesting, and brave. And I think you will find it very therapeutic to write everything down.
Smee - I don't think teens care about saving the world so much, - they are to busy arguing with their parents and being stroppy doing other things 
Good luck with the work mountain, - eat plenty of FBS - Oh I see you already have
I hope everything is going smoothly for gracie today.
Thank for kind remarks about my friends, - you'd think once you had been approved to adopt one child (which takes a hell of a lot of jumping through hoops) it would be easier the second time around - but no they've had to go through the whole process as if they were starting from scratch again. So it's great that they've finally got their new baby ( or will have her in July)
I have done zumba and yoga this morning. In zumba we danced to Beyonce's 'All the single ladies' and the teacher said 'I haven't finished working out the steps to this yet so just do your own Beyonce thing' - cue a room full of sweating middle aged women shaking their ample booties.
And I managed to drive home - several sets of traffic lights, a couple of junctions and two roundabouts - couldn't quite manage to reverse into our driveway though 
(although I did it the other day).
Waving to everyone