From Mom

I don’t know if you guys remember, but we’ve had some issues with Knox’s ears over the years.  And his speech.  And his body movement, but today we are focusing…

Isn’t it weird how the year can feel a bit like it’s dragging on and on and then suddenly you look up and it’s September? September is always a notable…

Yoh. Slap me sideways and call me Sally.  We had such a crazy busy week last week that if you had in fact called me Sally, I would have answered…

Hey Mom’s that hide behind the camera, I’m talking to you. How often have you been flicking through your family holiday photos and despite there being close to 500 pictures,…

While gathered around the dining room table, munching on some braaied goodies on Sunday afternoon, Seth suddenly drops a bomb shell.  As you do.  It went something like this… “Girls,…

If having three kids has taught me anything, it’s that having three kids teaches you many things and I have a whole lot more to learn. (Although let’s be real,…

Besides my husband, my kids and my family is there anything else that I just can’t live without? I guess I’m supposed to say that there isn’t, but like, you…

Photography   ~  Flowers   ~   Make up   ~   Dress One of the questions that I am asked most often (after, “Don’t you have a TV?” because why else would…

I know what you’re thinking…  How does a “Life Lately” compare with a Currently post?  Well, it’s the same really, except I’m not breaking everything down with headings.  I’m just…

After having some seriously disastrous results trying to get our kids to fall asleep on their own, we did what any good parent would do…  We gave up. While we…

Last week Friday we kissed our kids goodbye, jumped into our car and raced towards the Scarborough sunset. And then we stopped racing and kind of just puttered along slowly for…

“I know you can be overwhelmed and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?” Ah, the things you remember from teen movies iconic to your childhood.…

Photography   ~  Flowers   ~   Make up   ~   Dress There are really very few times that I sit behind my laptop screen and absolutely nothing comes out.  I guess…

This weekend was a hard one. Not on the surface of course.  No, no.  The surface was full of parties and celebrations, meeting with friends and chatting away.  The surface…

So of course, if you don’t know by now, the main aim of the #CTMeetUp is to get Cape Town bloggers into the same room. Why?  Well, in an industry…

One of our favourite things to do is drive into a brand new place, with no plan or agenda and just see where we land up. I get that this…

There I was, snuggled in bed and working through my pre-sleep ritual of calming myself down and allowing my thoughts to quiet themselves before I lay my head down to…

Good morrow fair maiden There’s something special happening this morning, but I suspect that you might know that already.  I mean, we’ve only been counting down to your birthday for…

How do you decide on a theme for your kids parties? Every year it goes the same way for us.  The girls (whose birthdays are two weeks apart – so…

If raising children has taught me anything, it’s that trying to stop a tantrum once it’s started is like trying to wrestle a giant octopus who wants to eat your…

You know those times where technically everything is all right in your World, but you can’t help but feel dejected and miserable because one little thing is going wrong?  That’s me right…

Oh hello there Kyla. It’s your birthday today so I thought that I’d take a moment to sit and jot down some thoughts that I’ve had since my last to you…

Even though I probably wouldn’t have actually died with this whole meningitis incident, it didn’t stop Seth and I separetely wondering what the hell we would do if I did…