New Blog

I have upgraded my blog to a new URL – www.steenkamp.com.  Please come find me there!!

Hit the ground HARD

I’m not even going to try describe the holiday.  It feels like a dream and when I start explaining it, the words slip away.  So I’ll wait till I can post some pictures and leave a few comments. Getting back though, I can explain quite well…..it was HARD!  I wanted to crawl into a hole [...]

Gymnastics

Christian, Aaron and Zara all started gymnastics this year.  They all love it and I’m amazed at how much they have learned in such a short time.  I actually thought Zara would decide to drop ballet and just to gymnastics, but that is not going to happen and she told me, ‘I’m not the best [...]

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 [...]

June 2011

I recently had to explain some hard things to the kids.  Basically that life is sometime hard and uncomfortable.  As a parent I am constantly trying to protect them from ‘ugliness’.  I was caught out the other day though when Aaron told his cousin, Joshua that his daddy (Aaron’s uncle) was going to die.  When [...]

Mad May

May has been quite an emotional month.  Michael went in for his scheduled scan and they found growths in the place where the cancer growth was previously removed.  Today he went in for a PET scan and we’ll know the results tomorrow.  Last night I woke up at 3am and prayed for there to be [...]

Cirque de Soliel and stuff

March was a fun month!  Here are some pics from our outings. We also hosted our 4th Little Pink Book party.  You can see some pics on the ZaraZoo blog. Michael has now been with us 3 weeks and there is a week until his kids visit and Lene arrives to start working on the [...]

Mental Blogging

Blogging is like therapy for me and when I don’t have time to sit at my desk and get my thoughts down, I find myself ‘mentally blogging’.  A whole thread of thought can be dealt with in ‘written format’ in my head.  The problem with this is that it is now catalogued and filed away [...]