First EVER sleepover

Gone are the days when my children would cling to my legs and not want to be left alone!  Gone are the days of coaxing and hiding behind walls crying at my child’s distress at being abandoned.  Nowadays all Zara wants is to be dropped off at a friends house and LEFT ALONE.  No play [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Afrikaans vs English

When Stefan I met we both lived in London, were young and on neutral ground.  I was from a liberal English background and Stefan from a conservative Afrikaans family.  We are so different, but somehow it worked and after 10 years living in the UK we moved back to Durbanville, Cape Town.  What a culture [...]

Easter and things

Today is the first day of the second term of the year.  There have been some major changes in the office and in the home with Mike and the family moving to CT, Andre leaving ZaraZoo and Jess and Josh off to Gene Louw for their first day today.  Daniel would be in Grade R, [...]

RV

This has been a tough six months.  Life has never been so good. I can’t put my finger on exactly what has made it so tough and I guess it’s a domino effect once things get harder, but it’s definitely a combination of things.  One would be the move into the house.  It’s the biggest [...]

Welcome 2011

The end of 2010 was spent in Port Elizabeth with the whole family, including Jax and the girls, but unfortunately Michael Z couldn’t make it.  It was a special time with everybody together to end off a rather tough year.  I spent 2 weeks in PE with the kids, Stefan arrived on the 21st and [...]

Star

Shew, another emotional week!  On Tuesday morning Star got hit by a car.  It was terrible because it happened just after Stefan and I were playing with her, she must have run out while he was in the shower.  Then Salomie and the kids came to play and it was only at 1.30pm that I noticed [...]

Namibia

Eventually I can say that tomorrow we leave for our Namibian Roadtrip Holiday!  Our bags are all packed and we’ll be leaving at 2am tomorrow morning.  We’ve done quite a bit of shopping for the trip, including new tents and lots of warm clothes, jackets, gloves, longjohns etc.  I thought we were doing something quite [...]

Roadtrip

I’m so excited about the prospect of us doing a roadtrip early June.  The plan is to join Lynette, Gush and family as well as some of their friends for a 2 week trip into Namibia.  This is the perfect was to end of school year.  It also gives me motivation to get finished by [...]