traditions

My Knox Yes, MY Knox. (You’ll have to fight me to call him your Knox – sorry future girlfriend, it’s just how it is around here.) There are so many…

My baby girl, you are not a baby any more! Today we celebrate you turning 4 and despite initially being a bit bummed that you were getting older (when you…

My exciting news this week is that I have gotten my 4th baby back from the hospital.  That’s right, my camera is back from it’s service and I don’t think…

THIS COMPETITION IS CLOSED Things are starting to get very festive around our little house.  From the tree being nearly always lit when we get home, to having little dinosaurs…

We got Christmassy all up in our hizzle this weekend and it was glorious. I decided to heck with it, we feel like putting up the tree now so we’re…

Can I just mention “The Epic Enthusiasm Fail of 2012” or more well known to the girls as “The Time We Killed Their Imagination Cos We Suck At Consistency“.  Oh…

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…

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…

One of the things that we really enjoy doing as a family is going out and having meals together at various restaurants.  I kind of love the chaos that we…

You’ve heard that saying “a change is as good as a holiday“, right?  Well my guess is that the person that said it wasn’t on holiday, or on a holiday…

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…

Another Valentine’s Day down the hatch.  Thank goodness. I remember a time when we used to celebrate Valentine’s Day…  You know, before we were married with children.  Now we only…

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…

So a while back there was this big special day that we celebrated but I was kind of busy at the time so I didn’t blog about it.  But I…

When Kyla turned 1 I thought it would be awesome for each of our kids to do their own painting with the same mediums (a canvas and finger paint).  Because…

A very happy birthday to you my little Riya-Ray! From the moment that you arrived into our lives you have brought me so much joy, and now as I reflect…

Believe it or not, life seems to be getting easier.  Or maybe it isn’t, but the Lord has decided to give me the patience and the grace to make it…

You might have noticed that we have never really referred to baby 3 as anything but, well, baby 3…  I had been feeling bad, because the girls both had little…

For quite a while now Kyla and Riya have been sharing the same single bed to sleep in at night.  This is mostly because as soon as we started lying…

I mentioned in my previous post that we were spending 2 whole nights in our “own town” of Cape Town to celebrate our 5 year wedding anniversary.  What I didn’t…

Except it wasn’t.  Two very different, but equally blog-worthy things happened today.  But before I get into that, I would also just like to say that I am so ready…

I realise that my posts of late have not really been very fun or exciting, but also very sparse.  What better way to make up for it than to tell…

Wow.  5 Years.  5 Whole entire years!  Actually I guess it’s 8 and a half if you include the dating years – which I do…  It’s not like those years…