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I’ve probably seemed quite negative around these here blog parts over the last couple of weeks and despite my word for the year being “positive” I sometimes struggle to maintain…

Happy Monday! Or is it?  Well this Monday is a day that is going to be filled with answers to so many questions about whether or not we will definitely…

Let’s rewind roughly 4 years and 9 months. We would go an visit the few friends that we had with children and when I got home I was so broody…

Recently  we’ve had a chance to sit and look through our little badly filmed home videos.  And while they are filled with great memories and a lot of random things,…

Oh my word Kyla Bells!  You are 4 today! It’s finally happened after month of counting down the days, it’s finally here and you are finally 4!!  Last night before…

Good morning all you lovely people. I’m about to take my kids out to enjoy another beautiful day in the Mother City – to live it up on their last…

I never realised how much stress one can experience in trying to sell their house.  Or waiting to know if one should sell their house, is probably more appropriate. At…

“I’m going slightly mad…  I’m going slightly mad…  It finally happened…  It finally happened….  It finally happened…  I’m slightly mad.”  Who can say it better than Queen? As you know…

I Can’t Believe I’m Actually Doing This You might as well pour me some organic wine in a bio-degradable cup and call me a hipster.  It seems as though I…

My normally camera shy baby posed purposefully for these pictures…  As in, she really wanted me to take them!  I’m still kind of in shock.  She is most gorgeous, just…

So you know there was this one time that I considered getting all my children into modelling, because they are the most beautiful babies in the world.  I swear I’m…

So this Saturday I was given some time alone to get stuff done. I was meant to paint the bathroom ceiling, put a switch on the extractor fan, put up…

Last night, as I sat pondering what to write about, an image flashed on my screen of a very tiny little Riya that I added to Instagram a while ago.…

So I thought it would be fitting for me to write the DIY posts about our Old House, since I am the one doing the DIY projects! By this sentence…

I guess that’s a weird thing to acknowledge.  But there is a reason for the random statement – besides the sick realisation that the year is almost on the downward…

One thing I struggle to do is say no (unless I am talking to my children in which case I have nooooo problem).  Don’t you agree that “yes” just rolls of the…

There I was feeling all sorry for myself and things, writing emo posts and saving them to maybe post later.  And there it went…  Right out into the interwebs for all to…

My memory sucks.  That’s nothing new. I do remember now that the power finally went back on and that we are finally back to being able to stare at each other…

I’m kind of over talking about sick children.  Because really, besides you having heard as much about the amount of snot my family can produce, I am just over thinking…

I knew I shouldn’t have said it. I just knew it. You know I bragged in my post the other day that for the first time in forevs none of the…

If you are not a Facebook/Twitter friend, last Tuesday’s post may have lead you to believe that Knox was better.  Although I am sure that you may have gathered by…

Do you ever over analyse your children?  I should probably be more specific.  Every time they do something, like take a keen interest in the names of trees it crosses my mind…

Quite a while ago now we decided to venture out to Hout Bay one evening to experience their indoor market.  We heard that it had a bit of an Old…