Yes, how did the girls get on at nursery LVB? The first few sessions can be hard on everyone but once they get stuck in I'm sure they'll love it! How have you used your first couple of days of freedom?
I hadn't realised your return to work was coming up ALL (although if I'd thought about it obviously you couldn't put it off much longer). Did you enjoy putting on a different part of your personality again, or will it take time to get back in the swing of it? 10 months into my return to work, I have to say I love the balance of sometimes being mummy but sometimes being proper adult with a modicum of intelligent things to say. Hope C's voice has come back again, it doesn't sound like the smoothest of starts if she yelled that much but as with LVB sure she'll get there very quickly once they've broken her spirit.
Have been thinking about mucky such a lot. Hope you are checking in and seeing our support, and you know where most of us are if you want a virtual chat (or a RL one with me or LVB). xx
How is the childcare routine bedding down chesti? It sounds like a logistical minefield to deal with all those elements, I'd need a spreadsheet for it! Is your DH enjoying full time work? How's the impact on you and home life? Glad you got the car situation resolved quickly at least, but the breakdown must have been an arse and financially, just post Christmas is such a bad time for that to happen! January is the longest month anyway, without having to buy a new set of wheels too.
So have you got estate agents crawling all over your place yet tarti? Any further progress on the big move decision?
We are all well here. In fact, although I hesitate to say it, the twins have been hale and hearty for positively weeks. It's such a contrast with this time last year, when I got tonsillitis and they had cold after cold, and I have to say I'm very appreciative! Now I've said that, what's the betting we all get norovirus? 
We've had to contend with a new sleep issue with S, who suddenly and from out of nowhere started to kick up a huge fuss about getting into bed about 10 days ago. Our working theory was that it started on New Year's Day, when we were at friends' and all desperately hungover - he didn't settle at all for his lunchtime nap and cried all the way through, while awful awful mummy lay downstairs gibbering and not responding to his cries. Whether coincidentally or not, he was absolutely inconsolable about going into his cot thereafter and was also waking in the night begging to get out and crying his heart out. Awful! Have tried a bit of spaced soothing and lots of reassurance since and I think - touch wood - he might be back on track again now. But I will never ignore his wails again!
When they were in special care after they were born, we got signed up to a study into premature babies and brain development. This week we had to go to hospital for a developmental assessment session, to see how they've got on since then. It was a couple of hours of cognitive, language and physical tests (things like building towers out of blocks, doing jigsaws, naming objects in pictures, drawing, walking up and down stairs, jumping, etc) which they put up with pretty well, but got very fed up by the end. Anyway their scores were absolutely great, bang on track, and S actually got a very high score for language. He's such a chatterer now, I think we are up to sentences of 4 words at times, and it's lovely to hear that they are doing so well. When they're premature you find it hard not to wish they could catch up a bit with their peers but we're now at the point where we can really start to forget that they were ever early.
Kate, rattling, are you still there? Hope things are going well with you x