A Day In The Life Of The Alfino’s

Hello there! I don’t know about you, but I’m finally starting to emerge from my food coma.  It’s taken a while longer than it should, but in all fairness I…

I don’t even know where to start this post.  It feels like I was just writing this one the other day – but it was a whole year ago! This…

My exciting news this week is that I have gotten my 4th baby back from the hospital.  That’s right, my camera is back from it’s service and I don’t think…

Because I can’t find one specific thing to talk about – (I can’t even keep up with everything that’s going on right now, so I wouldn’t know where to start),…

I’ll tell you what they have in common – they are both the absolute cutest things ever in the World! To end the year off at school, the girls had…

      THIS COMPETITION IS CLOSED Morning everyone! We just got back from a lovely, but flipping windy weekend away in Pringle Bay.  It was awesome, but I must…

I cannot believe that yesterday I dropped my kids off for the last day of their first year of school. It really seems like just yesterday I was stressing over…

THIS COMPETITION IS CLOSED In this glorious Summer weather, there really is nothing better than having our girls in dresses.  Not only are they cooler, but they just look so…

THIS COMPETITION IS CLOSED Ever since we moved into our new house, I have been upset with myself that we haven’t made the kids rooms really feel like theirs.  Especially…

I’m so sorry that this post is later than I promised, but there is nothing quite as debilitating as a tummy bug combined with raging fevers. Riya and I were…

So, we did it. And surprisingly KEPT doing it. Even though it’s often a very last minute thought, we are now 3 nights in to the Dinosaurs coming alive in…

A couple of Saturday’s ago – when it was really rainy and wet in Cape Town, I bundled my kids up into the car and we set out for the…

This weekend was a blur of Christmas trees, airport adventures, decorations EVERYWHERE, fun family playdates and twinkly lights.  Which, if you need a quick translation, means that it was actually…

I know you parents out there know this, but parenting is no joke.  Seriously the single hardest thing that I have ever done.  But if I could share with you…

Starting to feel a bit nostalgic that my kids have been at school for almost a whole year already!  A year later and Riya is still pulling that smile for…

If there is one thing that Kyla is EXCEPTIONALLY good at – it’s getting fevers. She will go up to 40 degrees without breaking a sweat (or thankfully without any…

Can I just mention “The Epic Enthusiasm Fail of 2012” or more well known to the girls as “The Time We Killed Their Imagination Cos We Suck At Consistency“.  Oh…

Wowzers, this week has been full of really high highs and really low lows.  It’s funny how that happens hey?  Maybe it’s to make you aware of how good you…

So, maybe you can help me find my daughter.  I know she’s there somewhere.  Can you see her? What about now? Aaaah, there she is. I suppose I should tell…

I have never enjoyed being home with my family as much as I am right now. Maybe it’s just the new house and all the great, new things that go…

So um, there’s this um, competition thing happening over at Kidz World at the moment and I um, would really like to get all up in that business. Look, I know…

Organised. This is not a word that is often used to describe me.  Unless someone uses it in a sentence that goes along the lines of, “Oh my word.  Check…

A little tradition that we have in the Alfino household is that when you turn 1, you get some finger paint, a canvas and all the patience and support that…