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 [...]

Zara and Mia

I am having so many AHHHH moments lately with Zara and Mia, watching their relationship bloom. I remember when Aaron was about 5 and Zara was 3, Zara used to drive Aaron CRAZY! They could not even sit next to each other in the car, Christian always had to sit between them and act as [...]

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 [...]

Zara is a whole hand!

Zara, you used to be my baby girl, literally.  The  boys fussed over you and tolerated all your toddler tantrums and demands.  We all doted on you and there was never any pressure on you to ‘grow up’ or ‘be responsible’.  So much changed for you this past year! Your letter when you turned 4 lamented [...]

Christian’s Blog

I am really trying to encourage Chrisitan’s creative writing, but it’s such a task for him to sit to write!  I’ve decided to drop paper and replace it with a blog of his own where he can do all his creative writing.  I’ll work on his handwriting seperately.  His URL is http://christiansteenkamp.wordpress.com

2..4..6..8

For the next 2 months I’ll be able to say that those are the ages of my children, how convenient!  The long anticipated double party day has come and gone and we are now recovering surrounded by boxes, new gifts, empty glasses and a weeks worth of left overs!  It has taken me a good 48 [...]

Challenging Children

Yesterday morning we were reading from Genesis at breakfast and Christian asked why God created Evil……and once again I’ve been stopped in my tracks by one of my children!  I did not immediately have an answer, then remembered the story of the angel being thrown out of heaven because he wanted to be more like [...]

Aaron’s Song – 5th March 2010

We have nothing to lose, we have nothing to fear.  We are family.  When you are lost and when you are dead.  We are family. And when you’re in heaven you could still be alive, even then you still have fun. You can pain and draw and can jump around and make box cars. And [...]

The things children do

Every day my children do or say something outrageous, constantly testing there physical and intellectual boundries.  A couple of weeks ago Zara decided to give herself a haircut and not only trimed her fringe but actually gave herself a brushcut, that will take ages to grow out, but has now actually grown into a style which totally [...]

Christian is 7

You can’t be a mother and not fill everyday with old cliches, but I suppose they are cliches because they are just so true.  Things like ‘I can’t belive how big he’s become’, ‘makes me feel older’, ‘it feels just like yesterday….’ all come to mind. Chris had a nice drawn out birthday this year [...]