Things are changing around here, from tomorrow I will be the only breadwinner in the family, until next Monday that is. My husband has a new job, this one is 10 minutes from home, working the same hours, which means no more being woken at 5.30 by his alarm. It has highlighted the fact that we now need another car because he drove a work van. We are looking for a twin cab ute.

My car is too small to be really useful as a family car, we can't take the bikes out in it, the esky just fits in the boot, but not much else. Even when we had the larger car we still had to take 2 vehicles on family outings that we wanted to take the bikes to, his work van only seated 3 and was getting very squeezy with 3 adults. He has seen the light, he is looking for an auto, so that I can drive it too. I can drive a manual but don't like it, frankly it scares the jeebies out of me. Last time I drove a manual car was last year and I made him drive almost an hour to pick me up because I refused to drive it in peak hour traffic. It means there may be no new lounge for us this year as we had planned.

Until we get it I have to drive him to work or if he needs it he has to drive me or I will need to catch a train. Catching a train means I'd be back to up to 4 hour commutes each day, instead of just over an hour driving to and from work.

I am excited for another reason too, my 18 year old daughter has asked me to teach her to sew, she has gone through my patterns asking which would be easiest for her to start on. We've chosen a pajama pattern. Starting on it today.