Riya-Ray

Swimming. The word brings up fond memories of splashing around in the pool, kicking and screaming…  Or no, on second thoughts that might be drowning which is pretty much what…

Since the girls have started school I have seriously cut down TV time in our house, only putting it on when they are about to rip each others heads off.…

This last week has been hectic.  Knox has his first real sickness which started with a fine rash from the top of his head to the bottom of his toes,…

How cute are these little felt finger puppets?  As you can see, the girls put each of the little bits on which they absolutely adored doing.  This craft is so…

Going out in public always entails the same thing for us no matter where we go.  Sometimes it’s just a whisper, other times an assumed statement made to their friends,…

What a crazy, manic week last week was.  For some reason I thought it was possible to regain some sense of normality this weekend, but I don’t know what I…

Apparently today is a special day for some people…  So happy Valentine’s Day to you.  But if you totally couldn’t care less about it (as I do), I’ll give you…

A couple of weeks ago I frantically rushed home from work, stopped off at Spar and scanned the shelves for something healthy and nutritious to snack on (and came out…

It was Seth’s birthday this past Tuesday.  If you’re a Capetonian you will know that this was also the day of the RHCP concert.  What you might not know is…

A 1000 kisses from you is never too much, never too much…   I don’t know who sings this song originally because I just don’t care about things like that,…

We had a little playdate at our house and I thought it would be cool to put out all the girls dress up clothes so that they could all be…

OK, so this title might be misleading, there was no real boxing taking place in Kalk Bay, unless you count the intermittent fights between the girls.  What is Boxing Day…

Noordhoek is special for us.  It’s the place that we celebrated our wedding day (our reception was at Monkey Valley and we took our pictures on Noordhoek Beach).  Besides that,…

So a while back there was this big special day that we celebrated but I was kind of busy at the time so I didn’t blog about it.  But I…

There are some people that you meet in your life that weave into it and then out, never to be heard from again.  But then there are those that you…

Yesterday my little girls started school.  I can’t believe I have just written those words. The night before I spent hours packing their bags and making sure that everything that…

We wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year…  I’m sure that you are singing that…

This year I have had the privilege of getting together with some really wonderful women to create a place where new Mom’s can meet together and get to know one…

                  I love holidays!  Besides just being able to do what we want when we want it and having great family time…

Last weekend a friend of mine asked me to takes pics of their family of 3 before it becomes a family of 4.  Now even though I love taking pictures…

A group of us get together every second Friday or so for our girls to get to know one another and play.  It’s such a good blend of ages and…

We had the privilege of attending Elijah’s 2nd birthday party 2 weekends ago (shows you how behind I am on posting).  And despite Elijah having a raging ear infection and…

I always thought that if I had girls they would be like me – not into frilly, pink, floral or bling.  It never even occurred to me that they could…