children

The kids rooms have been looking rather dull since we’ve moved house (Especially poor old Knox’s room, but that’s for a whole different post). For the girls room, we managed…

Please don’t put me in a mommy box. Right now you’re thinking, “what are you even talking about?!”  But you’ve totally heard of these boxes, you just don’t realise that…

Weekends are way to short.   Just saying. Seth decided to leave the house while it was still dark on Saturday morning to go and climb Table Mountain…  As one…

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…

Sunday mornings aren’t really the time to talk about work.  Although if you really think about it, there is never really a good time to talk about work is there?…

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…

If I could live anywhere in Cape Town it would be Noordhoek. I’ve spoken about it before so I am not going to bore you with this again but now…

Statistically speaking 80% of people that go away on holiday come back and want a holiday after their holiday to recover from their holiday.  Also, 90% of you will agree…

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…

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…

THIS COMPETITION IS CLOSED Things are starting to get very festive around our little house.  From the tree being nearly always lit when we get home, to having little dinosaurs…

THIS COMPETITION IS CLOSED Books. If there is anything that I could hope for my children is that my kids love to read as much as I do.  I’m sure…

THIS COMPETITION IS CLOSED So excited that we will have TWO winners today!! One of the things that my girls love to do is dress up.  Actually, love is possibly…

      THIS COMPETITION IS CLOSED Morning everyone! We just got back from a lovely, but flipping windy weekend away in Pringle Bay.  It was awesome, but I must…

GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED! What a week of awesome companies giving away awesome things to you awesome people!  Had enough awesome?  Me neither!  I hope that you are enjoying these giveaways…

THIS COMPETITION IS CLOSED In this glorious Summer weather, there really is nothing better than having our girls in dresses.  Not only are they cooler, but they just look so…

THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED! This Summer we have decided to spend as much of it as we can around the pool or out on the beach.  And I can’t wait!…

THIS COMPETITION IS CLOSED It’s time… With December comes the 3 Kids, 2 Dogs and 1 Old House – 10 Days Of Giveaways – it’s finally here and I can’t…

A couple of Saturday’s ago – when it was really rainy and wet in Cape Town, I bundled my kids up into the car and we set out for the…

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…

I know you parents out there know this, but parenting is no joke.  Seriously the single hardest thing that I have ever done.  But if I could share with you…

When we came up with the name Knox it was pretty much because we have a thing for short names (Cindy, Seth, Kyla, Riya…), we liked how it sounded and…

If there is one thing that Kyla is EXCEPTIONALLY good at – it’s getting fevers. She will go up to 40 degrees without breaking a sweat (or thankfully without any…