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I have never enjoyed being home with my family as much as I am right now. Maybe it’s just the new house and all the great, new things that go…

A little tradition that we have in the Alfino household is that when you turn 1, you get some finger paint, a canvas and all the patience and support that…

Knox has finally popped a tooth. At last. I’m pretty sure that if he could talk he would say something along the lines of, “I got a tooth, I got…

It seems like just yesterday that I was moaning about all the boxes that I had to pack and get ready to move, but we’ve already been in our new…

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…

Happy South African Heritage Day peoples of the world, and more importantly South Africa. If you are like me and are not very good at knowing what our South African…

I’ve often wondered if going to therapy would help me or if they would listen to just one retelling of an afternoon in the life of me and immediately admit…

Who has two thumbs and something to give away? *points thumbs at herself* This girl does. Man I love that joke.  I’ve been saying it all morning while I was…

I haven’t watched this movie.  But if I had to hazard a guess, I would say that Stella was a part time working Mom of 3 lovely, but busy and…

It’s not often that I am affected by the things that people say to me or about me.  Not any more anyway (shout out to high school Cindy – you…

So the 1st of September happened yesterday.  In case you didn’t notice. I almost didn’t, but when I did realise what day it was, I got a massive fright.  I…

It’s not often that we get to have a “free” Saturday – and by that I mean a Saturday where we are not obligated to chauffeur our children to their…

I’m so sick of thinking about packing and not packing and how I should be packing that I have decided to think about beautiful clothes instead.  Aaaaah, that’s better. On…

Taking a look back at the last couple of posts and I realised that a very special person seems to be missing in all of them.  I’m not sure how…

My baby girl, you’re 3 today!  Well actually you have been 3 for 3 days now, but I haven’t really had a chance to sit down and write to you…

After taking a little reflection moment just a month ago, looking at the kids at 9 months and trying to tell the difference, I wondered if we would be able…

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,…

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 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…

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 like to DIY as much as the next girl. So pretty much not at all. Seth on the other hand, is lost in some kind of woodchipped, paint stained…

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…