From Mom

Let’s do a quick throw back to roughly 1992.  Picture this… A long, narrow passage with dark brown parquet flooring and a green rug.  The walls are white and unadorned…

There’s something wrong with me… No really.  I’m worried. It’s just 3 weeks till the girls party and I have literally done nothing about it.  Who am I even?  Did…

OK, so here’s what I thought I knew about Babylonstoren… It’s one of those places that you have on your hit list but you’re not really sure why, except that…

There have been very few times in my life that I thought I was going to die.   No, I mean really die, not like “Netflix isn’t working I could just…

Hello again sweet people of the internet. What a week it has been.  Having sick toddlers is no joke but having sick male toddlers faking the manflu is just awful.…

I love how totally different those two things are.  A lekker steak braai “paai” and a delicate butternut au gratin. We’re not usually about so much pomp and ceremony, so…

Sup guys.  How was the long weekend? Ours was pretty great – I so enjoyed being home, sleeping in and chilling that it was really hard to get back into…

Happy Friday! I could not be more excited that Monday is a holiday.  This incessant need to wake up every single morning, is doing my head in a bit.  It’s been such…

In our house we like to play to our strengths. What does that mean?  Well, my strength is that I happen to be home early enough to make supper, so…

Every so often, you might be out with a friend and suddenly they whip out their phone. No, this time they are not taking an Instagram of their coffee and…

GOSH darnit, what a day. A very, very hot day.  Here I was thinking that Summer was over and that we’d be snuggling up to each other to keep warm and…

Anyone else glad that it’s Monday?  Only me? Probably, but honestly I am so glad that this weekend is over.  My brain can finally rest and maybe, just maybe, I’ll…

I’m trying really hard to remember that not every occasion has to be an event. This is especially hard when you blog on the regular because then every occasion really…

Some of the things that I want to do more of this year, is to read more books and to spend more time with family and friends. Although saying them together…

So apparently it’s almost the end of the term? I only found out about this accidentally when I took my daughter to her ballet class and saw all the other…

Is there anything better than a good party theme? Of course there is. Back massages after a long, stressful day. That moment when your child says “I love you Mom”…

Have you ever had that moment when your favourite song comes on in the car and you pump up the volume to the max so that you can pretend that you…

Parenting moves in big time chunks for me.  Of course there are all the little moments that make up the big chunks – especially those hard days that drag on…

Look, I know there are many other problems we could focus on right now, but you can look at any old news source for those. No no, if anything, I’m…

Today has been one of those days for me.  My laptop wouldn’t switch on, then I spilled my coffee and then I realised that I hadn’t done my Mixed Race family post…

We’ve recently amended our vows a bit. Instead of the usual “in sickness and in health” we have amended it to – “in sickness and in health, unless you become…

Guys. There are many things that I have been hoping to achieve in my life and more specifically with my slice of the internet pie.  Most of these things revolve…

As any parent would know, there are many, many frustrating things about raising children.  From having to repeat yourself 10 times before they listen to finding out that you have…