Hello lovely ladies. Thank you all for your kind words and suggestions, you are all wonderful. Just after I'd posted last night dh walked in the door from work and I just broke down on him. Turns out he's been feeling the same about life being a bit crap and same-old, same-old and he has been concerned about me and could see me starting to fall to pieces. I do wonder why he doesn't say something before I get the chance to totally break down though. We both agree we need some time with just the two of us, to do something normal like going for a nice meal & cinema, rather than working/childcare/rushing around etc etc. Sorry, as I know loads of you are going through/have been through ups and downs with your other-halves, but sometimes it just gets too much.
(Oh and Oooggs, I agree, you are indeed superwoman).
CD - thanks for the invite! I will bare it in mind as it would be lovely to get away from it all for a day or two .
NL - no I'm not eating very well right now, not enough time, can't be bothered, sense of taste gone haywire and everything tastes bitter. Obviously the good side of this is that I've lost weight and could do with buying some new trousers as mine are hanging off me. Need a good feed-up with chocolate!
Bramshott - I am at the price of that house. That is a serious amount of money for a house that looks like it needs everything doing to it (although it would be rather fun to live 2 doors away).
We've actually given up on the house move - house now off the market and I've stopped trawling Rightmove at every oppurtunity. We just couldn't find anything we liked that was actually much bigger than this place for the additional £££ that we have to spend. So, we are staying put until we need to apply for secondary schools, and we'll be having some work done on the house to make it slightly bigger and improve the living space. Also splashing out on new blinds and decorating bits, although goodness knows when we'll get time to decorate!
SOL - would love to meet up again. I work every day except Tuesdays, but could also manage a Thursday some weeks. Or I do get some Saturdays when dh is working, although that would involve bringing Em with me too...