Hello ladies...
I have such a busy head i just can't sleep - more about that later...
Needcoffee sorry to hear Rich might be moving away. Rubbish. On the plus there are loads of budget flights to Amsterdam so if you have an airport near you maybe it won't be so bad? Amsterdam is beautiful - it's where my Rich proposed after choosing a ring at one of the diamond factories so it has it's pluses!
Stefka sorry I missed your first day - sorry it was stressful but I guess thats to be expected (it took me about 6-8 weeks to settle in after being off) and it DOES get easier
Dal great news on Dylan's weight gain and walking and also that you met your mum again without incident!
Pixiemason sorry to hear about your grandad - hope the scan went OK and that you hear good news soon...
Mine hope you get yo the bottom of Eren's diarrhoea soon and that alls well...
Muppet hope Henry's rash has settled or that at least he is well in himself - small children get rashes at the drop of a hat so in all likelihood it isn't serious but hope you get some answers from your GP. Sounds like it could be eczema (although Sam gets a milder sounding version in the cold - red scaly cheeks and chin with occasional little spot type things) but see what the GP says. Bloody jealous of your holiday too! - have a fab time!
Lisa we have had the whys too since just after Christmas from our Sam! Best plan I have found is to try and get into a circular conversation! Sometimes dh says 'because!' ans they have a few rounds of the why? because! why? because! and then Sam goes 'stop saying that!!!' Quite amusing sometimes but also irritating when I have asked him to do something and he keeps saying 'why?' - although I do my best to explain sometimes its just 'because mummy says so thats why!'
Floria loving the image of Alex trying to 'help' in the bathroom with a hammer
Inzi great news that your grandad has been told he might have up to a year.If his cancer would be operable if he was fit enough for surgery then it will be in it's early stages so all good.
LES DO A TEST!!!!! Sorry that is just my nosiness! And also can't imagine I could go any longer than a couple of days late without wanting to know!
Strawberry hope the restructuring goes in your favour
WELL loads has been happening here since I last posted. Firstly Sam's party on sat at a local soft play place which was fab - its his birthday today and Mum and dad are up so should be fun!
But more excitingly the buyers for our house raised their offer so we could accept. They are cash buyers too so chances for it falling through are much less although it's not sold till it's sold...
Then the even better bit - we had been presuming that we would have to rent and wait for the mortgage market to calm down as despite an interest rate of 1% the best rate we could find was 6% and we wouldn't have afforded the repayments on the house we wanted. But a quick chat to our mortgage company told us that we can take our existing fantastic mortgage deal with us which is a tracker at 1% above the base rate - about as good as it gets at the moment as it means only paying 2%! Then we can make up the difference with a second morgage.
Then the downside - the people buying ours want to move quickly as she is pregnant and they want to get in and settled. One of the reasons they offered is that we said we could move quickly and into rented accommodation if neccessary. But the house we really want isn't finished yet and won't be until June so we're waiting on tenterhooks to speak to them tomorrow to see if we will be able to put our mortgage on hold for a few months while the build is finished. If they can all good and we will offer on the house. If they can't we are faced with a choice of buying a house that is not anywhere near as good (same internal space but funny layout that would be hard to change and north west garden V perfect layout and south west facing garden that isn't very overlooked) or moving into rented accommodation with no realistic hope of buying until the market calms down and who knows if the house we really like will still be available then anyway.
I know in the wider scheme of things this is not a massive deal and we should be very pleased to have sold at all in this market but to get the house of our dreams would be so so exciting!!! I feel sick, my tummy is churning and I have loads of creative solutions to offer the mortgage company / builder running round my head!
Keep your fingers crossed for us and I will keep you posted....