Nature

Just before I got really sick with the meningitis, we went away for the weekend to Marshden Estate.  A sweet little farm off the R44 – somewhere between Somerset West…

We tend to stumble across awesome places completely by accident, which is exactly how we ended up at Vergelegen. How do we do it by accident?  Well, we do this…

It’s been so long since I saw the sun that I almost forgot what it looked like. Not to mention what it felt like not to be bundled up in…

We recently went to  the sweetest dinosaur party. My photos don’t do justice to the hard work and planning that went on behind the scenes, but my friend Zoë and…

Have you ever considered the prospect being able to be a “Stay At Home” Mom? I’m guessing that you probably entertained the idea before deciding that it’s either not possible…

There’s this place called Oude Molen Eco Village. From the outside it appears to be the kind of place that you don’t ever want to see the inside of.  So…

It was still dark when we woke up, stumbling around to get everything together that I thought I had so carefully planned out the night before.  We gently woke the…

We have recently come to realise that although we absolutely LOVE to go on adventures and stay at little guest houses all over the country, sometimes the budget just doesn’t…

When I think of awesome destination places to go in Cape Town, I’ll be honest – Sea Point is not even in my Top 10.  Well, let me correct that…

It’s not often that we are totally spontaneous. We don’t get a chance to be.  What with 3 children that need so many different things it makes it almost impossible…

If I could live anywhere in Cape Town it would be Noordhoek. I’ve spoken about it before so I am not going to bore you with this again but now…

Getting back into the swing of things is no joke, luckily I still have a week before I take it too seriously.  Hopefully you do too, otherwise if you are…

So, maybe you can help me find my daughter.  I know she’s there somewhere.  Can you see her? What about now? Aaaah, there she is. I suppose I should tell…

I keep making this specific promise to my girls. Over and over again.  Then getting so mad with myself that I couldn’t keep it.  Even though I had every intention…

Happy Friday people! Man I am glad that it’s almost the weekend, this week has been a long and tiring one.  Being sick and having sick kids is just not…

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…

Fairies are one of the many new “hits” in our household, and though so many people freak out that their girls are obsessed about one day growing up to be…

So today is not much better in terms of sleep or sick children.  But it’s Michael McIntyre day and that just makes everything better!  We are going to sit so…

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…

The last time we went to the beach Riya was freaking out about the sand in her toes.  And the water.  And the dogs.  And the sun.  And the…  Well…

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,…

It’s amazing how you can go to the same place over and over but each time you find something new to experience. We ventured out to Imhoff Farm for some…