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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…

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…

I cannot believe that yesterday I dropped my kids off for the last day of their first year of school. It really seems like just yesterday I was stressing over…

THIS COMPETITION IS CLOSED Ever since we moved into our new house, I have been upset with myself that we haven’t made the kids rooms really feel like theirs.  Especially…

I’m so sorry that this post is later than I promised, but there is nothing quite as debilitating as a tummy bug combined with raging fevers. Riya and I were…

So, we did it. And surprisingly KEPT doing it. Even though it’s often a very last minute thought, we are now 3 nights in to the Dinosaurs coming alive in…

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…

This weekend was a blur of Christmas trees, airport adventures, decorations EVERYWHERE, fun family playdates and twinkly lights.  Which, if you need a quick translation, means that it was actually…

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…

Starting to feel a bit nostalgic that my kids have been at school for almost a whole year already!  A year later and Riya is still pulling that smile for…

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…

Wowzers, this week has been full of really high highs and really low lows.  It’s funny how that happens hey?  Maybe it’s to make you aware of how good you…

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…

So um, there’s this um, competition thing happening over at Kidz World at the moment and I um, would really like to get all up in that business. Look, I know…

For quite a long time now I’ve seen people throw coloured paint at each other.  It’s always been pictures though and it’s this thing that originated for the Holi Festival…

I keep making this specific promise to my girls. Over and over again.  Then getting so mad with myself that I couldn’t keep it.  Even though I had every intention…

I’ve been finding it difficult to take pictures recently.  Not that it’s my job or anything, but I normally really love to do it.  I don’t know why I’ve been…

Recently I have had some time to sit back and reflect on life (with my laptop being busted and all it kind of aided this process).  I even had a…

Since the move things have been pretty crazy.  Apparently there is a whole lot of stuff that you have to do besides just getting moving and unpacking your crap.  I’m…

Our mealtimes aren’t the same as they were before. I’m not talking about before the kids – where we could just focus on getting our own food in our own…

Can you feel that glorious South African sun creeping into your windows and warming up those toes? I don’t know about you, but Summer is starting to emerge around here…

Everyday I sit with my kids in the afternoon and try and establish what they did that day.  Sometimes it’s easy and they just tell me exactly what happened, but…