motherhood

Friday. Enough said. I’m glad that you’re back to read the next installment in our series.  If this is the first time you’re joining us – WELCOME, it’s good to…

It’s been said that once you have children, you’ll never sleep again. No, darn it.  Sorry.  I always get that confused with the “sleep when the baby sleeps” phrase everyone…

Hey hey!  It’s Friday! Let’s cheers to a beautiful, warm weekend in Cape Town – finally! I’m glad that you’re back to read the next installment in our series.  If…

“Hi, I’m Cindy and I let my children watch TV…  Sometimes.” “Uh, Cindy, therapy isn’t going to work unless you are completely honest with the group.” “OK. OK.  You want…

Here’s the funny thing about having a baby. Either you go into labour, or you’re forced into a c-section, or you happily decide to have your baby cut out, or…

Welcome back to my favourite series! I’m glad that you’re back to read the next installment.  If this is the first time you’re joining us – WELCOME, it’s good to…

I really, really don’t like Winter. But you know what I detest more than Winter?  Overflowing laundry baskets and not having any clean dry clothes to wear in the morning.…

It’s really hard to be truly content nowadays isn’t it? Obviously the problem lies with everyones perfect lives being just one tap and scroll away.  Accessible anywhere you are, as…

Welcome back to my favourite series! I’m glad that you’re back to read the next installment.  Here are the other features in case you want to catch up. Here’s a little…

On the weekend we had a Rainbows and Kites party for the girls. It took a while to decide on the theme because every girl and her imaginary friend wants…

As it turns out, moving domains is actually rather close to moving house.  Flipping stressful and fraught with problems that you’re sure no one else has had to experience, but there…

While all my friends were stressing over which university to get into and what to study, I was stressing that for some unknown reason my body wouldn’t be able to produce…

Is it weird that I have a whole series but never thought to include myself in it?  Maybe not, but truthfully I’m waiting for more people to get back to…

What a crazy week! This week has been filled with remarkably high highs and incredibly low lows.  But isn’t that how life goes?  It’s always a little bit bittersweet. We’ve…

In case you’ve missed it, we’ve started a new series that will pop up here on the blog every Friday. Recently I have been inundated with content about racism in…

In case you’ve missed it, we’ve started a new series that will pop up here on the blog every Friday. Recently I have been inundated with content about racism in…

In case you’ve missed it, we’ve started a new series that will pop up here on the blog every Friday. Recently I have been inundated with content about racism in…

In case you’ve missed it, we’ve started a new series that will pop up here on the blog every Friday. Recently I have been inundated with content about racism in…

In case you’ve missed it, we’ve started a new series that will pop up here on the blog every Friday. Recently I have been inundated with content about racism in…

  Yo yo yo.  Whaaaasuuuup? Things have been a bit quiet around here (sort of) and I’m not apologising for it, more just acknowledging that it’s OK not to over…

Winter Is Coming! Can you tell that we started watching Game Of Thrones a couple of weeks back?  I just can’t help but repeat this phrase over and over, because,…

Have you ever watched Hoarders – Buried Alive? No?  Well let me quickly debrief you. Basically people accumulate so much crap that they eventually they suffer a slow death underneath…

“I, Cindy Alfino, being of sound mind and body” decided to invite two of the kids friends over for a sleep over.  Where inevitably I would no longer be in…