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I’ve been trying to put it off for a while, but for those of you that have been bitten by the bug you will know that resistance is futile –…

So the girls were a bit miffed with me that I didn’t show you any of the pictures that they took of our holiday.  Actually they didn’t care, because when…

Right now I am sitting bundled up in about 100 blankets and still freezing to death.  Sick again.  Yippee.  (Yes, that’s right – if you actually care you might remember…

Hey that rhymes.   [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8DQaUoPmJg] Sitting here listening to this song takes me straight back into time – 6 years (and 5 days ago to be exact – soz, holidays…

You know, sometimes I sit here, desperate for something to say but I just can’t think of anything.  I start typing a thousand different things only for them to be…

It’s quite a scary thing to watch your children doing the things that you used to do when you were little.  It’s even scarier when it doesn’t even seem like…

Swimming. The word brings up fond memories of splashing around in the pool, kicking and screaming…  Or no, on second thoughts that might be drowning which is pretty much what…

There are certain smells that just remind me of things.  Like the smell of freshly mown grass totally just smells like Summer, add in some sunscreen and petrol and suddenly…

Is there a way to keep babies tiny and little and baby-like forever?  If you know of something let me know.  The best I’ve come up with is a brick…

I don’t know about you, but we have a pretty good idea of who our children are.  You know, like without really even thinking about it you know exactly how they…

The girls new hobby is to take “pishures” with my camera ALL.  THE.  TIME!  To be honest it can be a bit frustrating because they don’t give my little baby…

How cute are these little felt finger puppets?  As you can see, the girls put each of the little bits on which they absolutely adored doing.  This craft is so…

I never had a sister, but I had a younger brother.  We had good times and we had bad times (I remember a particular episode in the parking lot of…

Going out in public always entails the same thing for us no matter where we go.  Sometimes it’s just a whisper, other times an assumed statement made to their friends,…

What a crazy, manic week last week was.  For some reason I thought it was possible to regain some sense of normality this weekend, but I don’t know what I…

Apparently today is a special day for some people…  So happy Valentine’s Day to you.  But if you totally couldn’t care less about it (as I do), I’ll give you…

What I am about to explain to you might come as a shock.  You would never have thought that these things were possible coming from my middle child.  Riya-Ray or…

It was Seth’s birthday this past Tuesday.  If you’re a Capetonian you will know that this was also the day of the RHCP concert.  What you might not know is…

Never did I think that having a boy would be so different to having a girl, except of course changing the nappies (that was a shocker the first couple of…

We hardly entertain at our house.  Even though I absolutely love to put a table together with all the garnishes, I hardly ever have the chance to do it.  Besides…

We had a little playdate at our house and I thought it would be cool to put out all the girls dress up clothes so that they could all be…

OK, so this title might be misleading, there was no real boxing taking place in Kalk Bay, unless you count the intermittent fights between the girls.  What is Boxing Day…

Noordhoek is special for us.  It’s the place that we celebrated our wedding day (our reception was at Monkey Valley and we took our pictures on Noordhoek Beach).  Besides that,…