Wow,

its been over a year since I blogged last! Time really fly's by.

Stew and I have settled down - we bought a house. Never did I ever think that I would settle down in Dublin, buy a house in Dublin! I also never thought it was possible for me to have bought a house this early in my life. Things just sort of, fell into place.

With a generous loan to use as a deposit, and a friend of the family able to approve us for a mortgage, and house prices at the lowest they have been for a while - everything just worked out.

I love MY house (well, its not much mine, the bank owns it really!) it is in a nice small estate, an estate that has a residents notice board! an estate who organise summer games for children, and Halloween parties and other such stuff. My house faces a big green, and I am on a cul de sac, so I don't need to worry too much about the children.

I knew that this was the house i was going to buy, before we had even seen it. Before I had seen the neighbourhood, or the green it faces. I just knew. I don't know how, I just did. That didn't stop me from looking and looking at plenty of other houses. I had to make sure.

It is a three bedroom house, so nothing fancy. The attic is converted, so that makes another bedroom. The icing on the cake - it has an extension built onto the kitchen, and it was used as a play-school. Now, ever since transition year in school, where I did work experience in a Montessori that was joined to the house, I knew that this is what I wanted. My own little school off the side of my house. The house has its faults, but for us, it is perfect. I am like a mad woman trying to get MY Montessori ready - no PERFECT - for September.

My parents have built a log cabin in my back garden, and it is perfect for them, and for me. I love having them around, I love the help they give. I miss them when they are gone. I like a busy house, I like having people buzzing around.

My two little misses - not so little any more. Chloe started going to preschool full time in January, and since then, she has finally started talking. She is not as shy as she used to be, and has made friends. My shy baby has come out of her shell. She loves preschool, I'm so glad. We had a great 3rd Birthday party for her, in my new house :)

Megan, finally off of the bottle at 21 months (sound familiar - Following in Chloe's footsteps), The reasons for banning the bottle, she wasn't eating much and she still wasn't sleeping through the night. It was a hard 2 or 3 nights, but we all got through it, and she now sleeps from 7.30pm until about 7am. Sleep deprivation is no joke, and getting my sleep back now, I really don't know how I did it. Megan will be 2 in less than three weeks. 2 already??!!! I cant believe it. She really is still my baby, when Chloe was 2, she was a big girl. You know??

I tried to toilet train Chloe in January, she is three, she should be trained by now (says my public health nurse) no luck, I kept at it for a month, but I couldn't do it longer, so back to nappies. Perhaps I will try again soon.