Family Traditions

My Knox Yes, MY Knox. (You’ll have to fight me to call him your Knox – sorry future girlfriend, it’s just how it is around here.) There are so many…

I don’t like my body. I’m not sure if I have ever walked past a mirror and not cringed at a bulge there or the wobble there, or how weirdly…

It’s that time of the year again – the one where I wonder store to store trying to find the “perfect gift” for the Mothers in our lives. We are…

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…

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…

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…

Scenario: It’s dark in my room, my bleary, tired eyes manage to make out the light that is fighting to make it’s way through the curtains – so I know…

Hello there! I don’t know about you, but I’m finally starting to emerge from my food coma.  It’s taken a while longer than it should, but in all fairness I…

I don’t even know where to start this post.  It feels like I was just writing this one the other day – but it was a whole year ago! This…

I suppose I should preface this post with the fact that although Knox is 15 months old, we do not have one single family photo.  Not a single one. This…

We got Christmassy all up in our hizzle this weekend and it was glorious. I decided to heck with it, we feel like putting up the tree now so we’re…

The end of the year and more importantly, Christmas has snuck up on me like Seth sneaks up to chocolate – stealthily, with purpose and without a care that you…

I have never enjoyed being home with my family as much as I am right now. Maybe it’s just the new house and all the great, new things that go…

It’s not often that we get to have a “free” Saturday – and by that I mean a Saturday where we are not obligated to chauffeur our children to their…

It has become apparent to me that soon our faces are going to be plastered right at the top of every restaurant list, right under the “DO NOT LET THESE…

My baby girl, you’re 3 today!  Well actually you have been 3 for 3 days now, but I haven’t really had a chance to sit down and write to you…

Recently  we’ve had a chance to sit and look through our little badly filmed home videos.  And while they are filled with great memories and a lot of random things,…

Oh my word Kyla Bells!  You are 4 today! It’s finally happened after month of counting down the days, it’s finally here and you are finally 4!!  Last night before…

One of the things that we really enjoy doing as a family is going out and having meals together at various restaurants.  I kind of love the chaos that we…

Guys, tonight we are going to have one whole night to ourselves.  One whole entire night.  With not one child. I’m so excited that I might just do a back…

So you know there was this one time that I considered getting all my children into modelling, because they are the most beautiful babies in the world.  I swear I’m…

This kid…  This one right here…. With his coy shyness… His gorgeous giggle… And his sweet dimple smile… He steals my heart. Every single day!       He’s Stolen…