Hello!!!!!!
Feel like I've been away for ages! Have skimmed through but only really caught up with caz and oooggs' news. Caz - so sorry to hesr M has been so poorly, must have been so scary for you. Very glad she is home and well now though
And Oooggs - sorry to hear you are having such a tough time atm, glad you are home now though and hope you are able to get plenty of rest
Hope all is well with everyone else
Have been busy here and all my internet time seems to have been spent trying to find the best bargains on children's toys for xmas presents! Doing quite well though and loving Hotukdeals for vouchers and bargains!!
D is lovely at the moment and talking is coming on loads (which means I'm grudgingly having to accept his transition into toddlerhood!). Older 2 having been playing with bubbles the last few days and D gets very excited and runs around screeching 'bubble! Bubble!' over and over! Also says mama for Spongebob although the vowel sounds of mama the way he says it does kind of sound like sponge bob! Also says den den for Ben 10 Nathan seems to be having a big influence there atm!! D has however given up proper daytime naps He will sleep sometimes if out in car but otherwise he is awake all day or will doze off for half an hour on the sofa around 4 or 5pm but just screams and screms if I try and put him in the cot in the day so I have given up trying now. Surprisingly though he will still go to sleep at bedtime without problems when he has a late nap so its not all bad. Is still much earlier than I had expected, M and N both stopped regular naps at around 2 and I thought that was too early!
J received an email at work on Friday saying his company are going to be laying off staff, he will find out if hes one of them or not sometime this week. Hopefully he'll be ok as his dept have been pretty busy lately plus hes been there nearly 10 years. Still a bit of a worry though, I have loans in my name that he pays for from when he was living here and if he loses his job there is no way I can afford to pay them myslef. Well I can if I don't buy luxuries like food and gas and electric and stuff
And I had a phone call from M's step mum last night to tell me that she is moving out to Kuwait where M's dad is working on the 12th Jan and they hae no plans to come back and visit her until they actually move back again in god knows how many years They will talk to her on skype loads which apparently makes it all ok Although how long that'll last i don't know. And I cant even rant and rave because he has refused to have any contact with me at all for nearly a year now and TBH I cant blame the wife (who I really like) for doing what is best for her and her dd, its XP who I would expect (well actually I don't expect because hes always been a &%$ but I'd hope) to put Maia's needs as equal to those of the rest of his family. Haven't told her yet but hse is going to be devestated, shes already incredibly insecure and emotional and this is the 3rd time he has walked out of her life. And I'm sorry but talking to a child for a few minutes on the pc once or twice a week does NOT* count as being a proper part of her life. For a few months in between visits, maybe, but with no actual physical contact for 3, 4, 5 or more years it is NOT FFS she could be a teenager by the time he comes back, fuck knows how that'll go down!
Sory for massive selfish out pouring Needed to get it out somewhere!
And sorry for all typos but too tired to go through and correct (have dodgy 'V' key, you may have noticed!)