baby

I cannot believe that it’s this time of the year again! Seriously though, how can we possibly be 78 days away from Christmas?  I’m sure I was stuffing my face…

It’s been said that once you have children, you’ll never sleep again. No, darn it.  Sorry.  I always get that confused with the “sleep when the baby sleeps” phrase everyone…

While all my friends were stressing over which university to get into and what to study, I was stressing that for some unknown reason my body wouldn’t be able to produce…

Winter Is Coming! Can you tell that we started watching Game Of Thrones a couple of weeks back?  I just can’t help but repeat this phrase over and over, because,…

Every Sunday night was the same…  We’d go to church and then to our best friends place (or they’d come to ours) and we’d have an easy supper.  It was…

When I pictured our first day of school I prepared for the worst. I envisioned children that had unbrushed hair, mismatched clothes and questionable status on teeth brushing to be thrown…

I’m not usually a feeler. My emotions are normally kept under a fairly thick skin that regulates all the little feely things that I witness so often in the big…

It turns out that even after 5 years worth of practice, I am horribly useless at packing our baby bag. I’d call it a nappy bag, but that’s kind of…

It’s no secret that we are HUGE Sticky Fudge fans.  In fact I’m still trying to convince them to move onto making adult sizes. Maybe I should start a petition.…

Do you know what happens when I open my laptop at home (while the kids are awake)? Let me share – lsfkjsoijlksfh lseehfkk sifhlk hhhhhhhh  kkkkk ujha,kj,kjkj Followed by closing…

There was a time (just a few years ago) where I could direct you to the closest baby changing facility in any shopping mall in Cape Town. I could also…

I don’t like my body. I’m not sure if I have ever walked past a mirror and not cringed at a bulge there or the wobble there, or how weirdly…

There was a time in my life when I used to be scared of being alone at home with my kids.  Every moment, from the time I got home at…

I always thought that everyone who ever said, “This too shall pass” to me, were right. Was it helpful at the time?  Maybe not so much, because I was still dealing…

My sweetest Knox, As I write this your Daddy is trying really hard to get you to fall asleep in your own bed, without being cuddled to sleep (as we…

We officially have no more babies in our house. I’m simultaneously ecstatic and miserable about this.  Weird hey?  I guess it’s because I know that he is the last baby…

THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED! This Summer we have decided to spend as much of it as we can around the pool or out on the beach.  And I can’t wait!…

This face… I can’t even put into words how that little face, with that gorgeous smile and only one half a tooth, just totally makes my heart swell with love.…

One year old parties are often criticized as being for the parents and not for the kids.  And I suppose that could be kind of true to some people, but…

Knox has finally popped a tooth. At last. I’m pretty sure that if he could talk he would say something along the lines of, “I got a tooth, I got…

Can you feel that glorious South African sun creeping into your windows and warming up those toes? I don’t know about you, but Summer is starting to emerge around here…

I know that on Monday’s we all feel like doing this… But I’m here to tell you that instead of doing that, you should go and enter the Oh So…

I was halfway through writing a deep and meaningful post about moving houses when I was stopped by this dude. I think he did the world a favour.  He actually…