PARENTING

What do these two have in common besides their white shirts and sunglasses? Well, these dashingly handsome men share a birthday.  Which is somewhat of a tradition in our family…

Seth and I are born and bred Cape Town folk.  Which means that our kids are also born and bred in this beautiful city.  Basically, we live in the shadow…

If you had to randomly find yourself alone with my husband, you’d probably end up asking him normal questions.  Like, “Is Cindy really so obsessed with trying to make special…

After hitting the button on my third alarm this morning, I was (as usual) not wanting to get up at all.  So instead I was lazing in bed and thinking…

Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. Make it stop. I’ve said before that I really enjoy holidays at home with my kids, and yes it’s because of…

You know when nothing seems to be happening for what feels like forever, but then suddenly everything happens at once?  That’s us right now! BIG things are happening for the…

It’s so amazing to me how you can take a break and feel so wonderfully well rested, but then head back to work for a week and it’s like you’ve…

Disclaimer…  This post is going to contain a whole bunch of things you probably wouldn’t want to know about my body and I.  If you feel like you can’t read…

Is it even the New Year if you don’t publicly decide on how you are going to approach the year?  I think not.  If you haven’t declared your intentions out…

I know, I know – I’m talking about it again.  I’m sorry. But deciding whether or not to add another person to the family is actually pretty difficult.  If it…

Never before have I seen my kids so excited to go to bed! But this Christmas Eve, they were begging to get into bed at 5pm already!  Even though they’d…

The other night we found ourselves kid free and so we did what we normally do under those circumstances and ran out of the house to do something adult. In…

If you live in Cape Town and have not heard about Uncle Paul’s (or their companions – Uncle Willy’s or The Noddy Party), may I ask you which rock you…

I remember finding out that we were pregnant for the very first time. It was back in 2008.  We had just moved out of our flat and into Seth’s parents…

I’ve been struggling through some thoughts these past few weeks, so I thought I’d share them here.  As I do. It’s mainly about confidence.  Like, how do you teach your…

There is this really strange condition that’s hitting up parents across the nation. It starts innocently enough – you’re just sitting there minding your own business when you suddenly realise…

Cape Town has finally wisened up to the fact that it’s Summer. Granted, it may still be as windy as all heck, but at least it’s warm.  I’ll take a…

We are one-fifth of the way in to what could easily be the busiest week ever. In this week alone we are squishing in 3 concerts, a graduation, a karate…

A little while ago I wrote about being a NO Mom.  If you missed it, you can catch up here.  I’ll wait. Cool – welcome back. OK, OK.  Before you…

For the last three weeks I have been handling this whole parenting gig completely on my own.  I might have mentioned this a few too many times in the last…

No, no no.  Before you think I suddenly turned 34 (eeek), I’m finally getting around to telling you how we celebrated turning 30 and turning 4 on the same day.…

I often talk about our house being a well oiled machine – with three kids, it kinda has to be right?  Each person has their role and we all carry…

Remember that time we found an egg in the garden and then it hatched with this guy in it? Of course you do.  And that’s just because you read it on this…