Quickie update... I have three days to get a big assignment in & I haven't really started putting keyboard to Word yet, so I'll try to be brief.

Mamabeek - grommets are little drains that are surgically implanted in the eardrum to allow it to, well, drain :-) They make a tiny nick, suction out any gluey stuff, insert the grommets & hey presto. All fixed!

Well.. for 6-9 months, anyway ;-)

Then the grommets pop out & the eardrum heals over. Often this proceedure needs repeating around the age of 6, but if Brae can have ONE good winter I'm sure he'll more than make up the ground he's lost.

Presently investigating speech therapy for him. And want to get him into swimming lessons too. I'm so aggravated about this - there was a local private swim school but they wouldn't take under 3's so we waited.. waited. Then one month shy of Brae's 3rd birthday, they closed up & went elsewhere!

Now I find that only an extra 20minutes drive is another private swim school, and this one teaches them from BIRTH! Dammit! Might have to make the toss up as to which we can afford; speech or swim. Hard decision - one could save his life, but at the expense of his talking? Ah well, who needs to eat ;-)

Re renovations - Master Bedrom is complete! That's all three bedrooms in the house finished, and they look amazing. The canary yellow sponged over with cream that we painted the office in still freaks out 4 people out of 5 (you either loathe it or love it), so I guess that's going to have to be toned down before sale.

Btw the piccy at the top was taken approx 4 months ago (pre-haircut), on our bed when it was in the dining room. It's rather hard to read when you have a limpet ;-)

Be well :-)