Greece Holiday 2011

Things are eventually falling into place for our Greece holiday.  I have a 4 page document of schedules and instructions, which keeps growing!  But I’m starting to get excited now, so let me share some of the details with you On the 11th July Stefan and I fly via Abu Dhabi to Athens ( very [...]

Organising Videos and Photos

Every now and then I get into panic mode about all my photos and videos getting lost or destroyed!!  They also take up loads of space on my already failing laptop so I seriously needed to make a plan. The plan: To upload all video clips to YouTube.  This is a long process, but if [...]

Helen O’Grady Drama

Christian has now been doing drama for 7 terms and every term they get a little certificate and at the end of every year a larger certificate and then after 100 lessons they get a trophy. Christian has his eyes of the trophy and he’s not far off. Yesterday was the parents day and here [...]

Carnival

Very excited to be part of this Homeschool Blogging Carnival!

Giddy’s Last Day in Cape Town

Today is the last day for Mike and his family in Cape Town. I am sad and sick to the stomach! I wish I could just turn back time when when they first arrived or when Mike first arrived. We’ve had such a blessed few months with countless family braais, spending Easter together and having [...]

Kindle

Stefan is hot off the plane and back in Cape Town and all I can think about is my new Kindle and how it’s going to change my life HEHE. Being a Sonlight homeschool mom the first thing I looked at were titles in our Cores and already I found one of our favourites, Understood [...]

Planetarium

On Friday morning I took the kids for a brisk walk up the Tygerberg Hill at the Nature Reserve.  I was still quite sick, so it was a strain on my chest.  It is such an amazing view from up there and worth the effort! On Saturday morning it was so cold and rainy, but [...]

Movies

On Sunday morning I planned to clean the house, but instead we headed for Tyger Valley and I did something I haven’t done before… I have been meaning to complete the Discovery Health Assessment online for ages, but just never got around to it.  So the other day I sat down to to it and [...]

Thoughts on Greece

It’s three and a half weeks till Stefan and I are off to Greece and it’s causing me so much anxiety!!  It’s hard for me to be away from my kids at the best of times, but when things are so ‘up in the air’ it makes me less than relaxed.  Cathy is trying to [...]

Spier

Yesterday we drove out to see the farm where Jinx will be moving to.  The girl who is taking her is leasing with an option to buy.  The farm is amazing and Jinx will be so happy.  She will be doing mainly hacking and endurance training.  On Friday I took met this girl at Equus [...]