parenting

There is this really strange condition that’s hitting up parents across the nation. It starts innocently enough – you’re just sitting there minding your own business when you suddenly realise…

I don’t know about you guys, but the Christmas tradition of putting up our tree every year is a bit of a mission. The thing is, I always have this…

We are one-fifth of the way in to what could easily be the busiest week ever. In this week alone we are squishing in 3 concerts, a graduation, a karate…

Even though it feels like life ends when you have to start cutting all the bad things out of your diet (that taste oh so good) – it really doesn’t.  Your…

For the last three weeks I have been handling this whole parenting gig completely on my own.  I might have mentioned this a few too many times in the last…

No, no no.  Before you think I suddenly turned 34 (eeek), I’m finally getting around to telling you how we celebrated turning 30 and turning 4 on the same day.…

I was going to try and make a joke about the weekend going by so quickly, but it’s just SOOOOO not even funny that I won’t.  Instead let us take…

Remember that time we found an egg in the garden and then it hatched with this guy in it? Of course you do.  And that’s just because you read it on this…

We had the perfect morning routine for months and then it all went to crap. I don’t know how it happened but suddenly instead of the Rule Of One applying,…

“Hey Mom, can I please have this delicious looking sweet that my friend gave me in my party pack?” “NO!” “Please, please, please, please, please, please can I have it?”…

If you had cornered me a couple of years ago and interrogated me about my favourite types of movies, I would have wondered who the hell you were and tried…

It was a wonderful, sunny day in Cape Town when we found our egg. The kids were actually playing nicely together on the trampoline for a change (instead of using…

Over the weekend we celebrated Knox turning four. Originally we were going to have a Three Little Pigs Party, but he is just so freaking smitten with Paw Patrol right…

If you had to ask 7 year old Cindy to strap on her ballet shoes and stand on a stage in front of a hundred people, you would have seen…

I know what you’re thinking…  How does a “Life Lately” compare with a Currently post?  Well, it’s the same really, except I’m not breaking everything down with headings.  I’m just…

Now that our oldest daughter is seven, we’ve finally come to the point where we can joke about how much of a shock it was becoming parents.  Well, that and…

It hasn’t been a long week, but it has been a busy one! I’m so pleased to be able to bring back an instalment of this series.  It’s been a…

When my brother and I were growing up, we played together a lot.  Seth on the other hand?  He had two older sisters who often left him alone while they…

One of the wondrous things about humanity, is how different we all are. Take my kids for instance.  Our first is artsy, stubborn and likes being the leader (taking full…

If raising children has taught me anything, it’s that trying to stop a tantrum once it’s started is like trying to wrestle a giant octopus who wants to eat your…

Even though I probably wouldn’t have actually died with this whole meningitis incident, it didn’t stop Seth and I separetely wondering what the hell we would do if I did…

Before I lay into the holidays, I feel like I should first tell them what I love about them.  To like soften the blow or something.  Because I’m sure holidays…

I may have just ploughed my way through 4 cups of coffee since waking up this morning, so forgive me if I spew words out that seem a little like…