We're back!

Well we have been back in Melbourne for 5 days now after a lovely trip back to Northern Ireland and I am very pleased to say that everybody slept right through for the first time last night and I feel sooo much better for it. The flight back (or more specifically, the 4 flights back!) was as torturous as expected, mainly due to my stressed state of mind rather than the children playing up. Saying goodbye all over again was very hard especially as we don't know when the next trip back will be so I was not the best travel companion!
The day after we arrived back the mother group were having a joint 1st birthday party for all the babies so a fun afternoon was had by all. This was actually Max's third birthday party which is a bit excessive especially as poor Celia has never had any birthday parties and she is nearly 3!

So life has settled back into the normal routine with the exception of looking for a new house. We need to be out by 16th September and we are determined to find somewhere by the sea as that was the original search criteria but it seems that is everyone else's too hence there isn't much coming up. We have a few week's grace before we need to panic (me) or compromise (Andy)!