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There has been a big change in our house recently. Now that Seth has become a full 10kg’s lighter than he used to be, he performed an amazing hair removal…

It’s quite a scary thing to watch your children doing the things that you used to do when you were little.  It’s even scarier when it doesn’t even seem like…

There are certain smells that just remind me of things.  Like the smell of freshly mown grass totally just smells like Summer, add in some sunscreen and petrol and suddenly…

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.…

The girls new hobby is to take “pishures” with my camera ALL.  THE.  TIME!  To be honest it can be a bit frustrating because they don’t give my little baby…

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…

You might have noticed recently that like a stealthy ninja, I have been slipping in little bits of information regarding our new “life style” that we have taken on?  If…

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,…

I might not have ever mentioned it, but I live in the same house that I did when I was growing up.  After Seth and I got married we took…

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…

The last time we went to the beach Riya was freaking out about the sand in her toes.  And the water.  And the dogs.  And the sun.  And the…  Well…

  Me and my little buddha I seriously have to catch up on my blog reader.  Like seriously. I’m feeling totally out of the loop – a real FOMO in…

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…

Just before the holidays ended we decided to spend a Saturday morning at Giraffe House with special friends, relishing in the little bit of time that we had left together to…

It’s amazing how you can go to the same place over and over but each time you find something new to experience. We ventured out to Imhoff Farm for some…

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…

The Christmas tree finally went up on Sunday.  Not the “traditional”, singing songs and laughing together as I had imagined.  It ended with me putting it up all by myself,…

I don’t know what that title has to do with anything except that I was trying to think of 3 of something and that’s all I could come up with.…