Memorable Moments

I’m sure that if you are reading this, you have probably journeyed with me through the long process of how I eventually decided to go the Roaccutane route to cure…

Sometimes doing things for the first time can be really scary. But flying a kite is not even close to that at all. If you get it right, it can…

Today is the Memorial Service for my Dad and because not everyone could be there, I thought I would share the little Eulogy that we put together for the service.…

Things have been a bit crazy and busy around these parts for the last couple of days.  It sounds crass, but there is honestly so much more to a loved…

Do you remember 4 weeks ago?  When I shared that post that I had to close my eyes and “publish” and then resist deleting.  Also known as the time my…

I don’t know when I got all American y’all, but let’s just take the bull by the horns and run with it. Much like many fellow South Africans and the…

It was still dark when we woke up, stumbling around to get everything together that I thought I had so carefully planned out the night before.  We gently woke the…

Do you remember going into the video shop and standing there perusing the New Releases and deliberating at length with your movie partner about what to watch?  My favourite were…

We have recently come to realise that although we absolutely LOVE to go on adventures and stay at little guest houses all over the country, sometimes the budget just doesn’t…

I need to work on balancing our weekends.  Seriously, it’s a problem. On Saturday morning we left at 9.30 and only got home at 11pm (if you excluded the very…

When I entered the giveaway on A Gorgeous Life to win tickets to the Paarl Ommniberg Round The Rock Festival, I did what I usually do – imagined I won and how I…

One part of my day that I least enjoy is getting ready for work in the morning. It means getting out of my bed that I feel like I’ve only…

When I think of awesome destination places to go in Cape Town, I’ll be honest – Sea Point is not even in my Top 10.  Well, let me correct that…

It’s not often that we are totally spontaneous. We don’t get a chance to be.  What with 3 children that need so many different things it makes it almost impossible…

Since moving into our new house I have been a lot happier.  I didn’t think that ones surroundings mattered as much as The Sims made it out to be, but…

  To My Favourite Husband It’s really hard to sit here and find the right words to say to you on your special day.  There is so much that I…

My sweetest Knox, As I write this your Daddy is trying really hard to get you to fall asleep in your own bed, without being cuddled to sleep (as we…

I’ve been trying to think of cool little posts about the kids or something more interesting, but actually, when a big change is made in life, it has a tendency…

A brand new year calls for a brand new series.  And not the kind that you sit back and watch on TV – it’s the kind that you will make…

At the end of last year we sat pondering what on Earth to get our family for Christmas.  Eventually we decided that we weren’t going to waste money on random…

“Oooooh guuuuurl, I got ma haaur did.” Apparently, to most people this is a normal occurrence.  But for me it’s a bit of a big deal seeing as I cut…

So the start of the new school year happened yesterday. Just thought I’d tell you in case you weren’t on any form of social media yesterday or maybe you just…

If I could live anywhere in Cape Town it would be Noordhoek. I’ve spoken about it before so I am not going to bore you with this again but now…