A Day In The Life Of The Alfino’s

If having three kids has taught me anything, it’s that having three kids teaches you many things and I have a whole lot more to learn. (Although let’s be real,…

Besides my husband, my kids and my family is there anything else that I just can’t live without? I guess I’m supposed to say that there isn’t, but like, you…

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…

After having some seriously disastrous results trying to get our kids to fall asleep on their own, we did what any good parent would do…  We gave up. While we…

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…

Photography   ~  Flowers   ~   Make up   ~   Dress There are really very few times that I sit behind my laptop screen and absolutely nothing comes out.  I guess…

One of our favourite things to do is drive into a brand new place, with no plan or agenda and just see where we land up. I get that this…

I think if you had to put a gender to Cape Town it would have to be a woman. One day she’s all flirty with the sun shining, birds singing…

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…

Good morrow fair maiden There’s something special happening this morning, but I suspect that you might know that already.  I mean, we’ve only been counting down to your birthday for…

You know those times where technically everything is all right in your World, but you can’t help but feel dejected and miserable because one little thing is going wrong?  That’s me right…

Oh hello there Kyla. It’s your birthday today so I thought that I’d take a moment to sit and jot down some thoughts that I’ve had since my last to you…

Once upon a veeeery long time ago, my mother found herself teaching little children at a nursery school in Woodlands Park.  And I found myself spending most of my holidays…

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…

In March we’ll be celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary.  It’s a pretty big acheivement that I’m really looking forward to, because 10 years is a heck of a long…

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…

OK, so here’s what I thought I knew about Babylonstoren… It’s one of those places that you have on your hit list but you’re not really sure why, except that…

There have been very few times in my life that I thought I was going to die.   No, I mean really die, not like “Netflix isn’t working I could just…

It’s been quite a while since my brother got married. So long in fact, that I forgot that we were waiting in anticipation of seeing all the professional pictures that…

I was going to name this post, “What Happened When I Culled My Instagram Following”. But that’s just blatant click bait isn’t it?  It’s hard to snap out of that…

Our lounge is the heart of our home – everything happens in it. In Winter we find ourselves huddled around the fire, sharing pizza and laughing at yet another animated…

I have this chronic condition that’s really been a huge annoyance to my family over the years.  But it’s one of those things that you will only understand if you have…

What is it with kids and water? Recently we went to a friends party out in Mowbray at a park that is apparently called, “The Tractor Park” because, wait for…