Mom and Dad

Let’s do a quick throw back to roughly 1992.  Picture this… A long, narrow passage with dark brown parquet flooring and a green rug.  The walls are white and unadorned…

There’s something wrong with me… No really.  I’m worried. It’s just 3 weeks till the girls party and I have literally done nothing about it.  Who am I even?  Did…

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…

Hello again sweet people of the internet. What a week it has been.  Having sick toddlers is no joke but having sick male toddlers faking the manflu is just awful.…

I love how totally different those two things are.  A lekker steak braai “paai” and a delicate butternut au gratin. We’re not usually about so much pomp and ceremony, so…

I’ve heard it said that a successful marriage is one where you manage to turn your partner into the perfect slave – you know, one that cooks, cleans, sees to…

Sup guys.  How was the long weekend? Ours was pretty great – I so enjoyed being home, sleeping in and chilling that it was really hard to get back into…

Ever wondered how people with more than one kid ever leave the house? I do. In fact it’s something that I think about all the time.  Which could be because…

In our house we like to play to our strengths. What does that mean?  Well, my strength is that I happen to be home early enough to make supper, so…

Sometimes, despite all your very best intentions, family holidays can just go extremely wrong. I know it happens, but call it luck if you will, we had not yet had…

GOSH darnit, what a day. A very, very hot day.  Here I was thinking that Summer was over and that we’d be snuggling up to each other to keep warm and…

It’s not often that we have a night away from the kids. No wait, that’s a big fat lie. We get the night off every couple of Thursdays or so.…

I’m trying really hard to remember that not every occasion has to be an event. This is especially hard when you blog on the regular because then every occasion really…

Hello?!  Is there anyone out there? I’ve kinda lost track of what day or time or year it is, the holidays are flipping great, but it’s really messing with my…

So apparently it’s almost the end of the term? I only found out about this accidentally when I took my daughter to her ballet class and saw all the other…

2016 has been the start of many new things for us as a family.  Generally speaking, these new things have meant that we have had to meet a whole lot of…

Have you ever had that moment when your favourite song comes on in the car and you pump up the volume to the max so that you can pretend that you…

Having one of those days where I feel like I could just write endless streams on consciousness but the words would be confusing and weird for anyone else trying to make…

Look, I know there are many other problems we could focus on right now, but you can look at any old news source for those. No no, if anything, I’m…

You know when you think the worst thing that you’ll have to deal with all day is to force your kids to eat healthy options at every meal, but then…

We’ve recently amended our vows a bit. Instead of the usual “in sickness and in health” we have amended it to – “in sickness and in health, unless you become…

Marriage has been on my mind a lot lately. It could be because we’re closing in on our 9 year anniversary in March, or that I have been hearing about…