Our little girl is just five months old, but has her dad so tightly wrapped around her little finger, it’s quite scary. She hears his voice and a gorgeous smile spreads across her face. She is the first one to be greeted when he arrives...
My two year old has been on a semi hunger strike for a while now and has been refusing to eat almost everything he used to love. He’d nibble on things throughout the day but would never finish a full meal, particularly the ones I’d...
Group exercise is back in my life and I am loving it! The revolutionary Barre Body has finally come to Joburg. My gorgeous sister in law introduced me to ‘barre’ earlier this year when she became an instructor in the Cape Town studios. Barre Body “works...
From the moment my two year old opened his eyes on Friday morning, he was moaning and miserable. He was whining about everything that normally wouldn’t bother him at all. The weather was as bleak as he was and rain was forecast for most of...
My Gran, our Toet, would have been 88 years old today. It feels like yesterday that we sat on her couch on June afternoons, drinking Milo and watching Wimbledon, when we’d find her sitting on a deck chair outside her back door reading a book...
At the end of a very long, emotionally draining day, I find myself thinking about a picture I saw on Facebook about two years ago which said ‘what if you woke up tomorrow with only the things you thanked God for today?’. On days like today,...
How many people do you walk past in a day? For me, it can be more than 50 sometimes. How many of them do you greet, or even acknowledge? I could probably count them on my ten fingers. Until recently, when I was going for...
Just about every day I read or hear about the benefits of exercising and how we should all be fitting in our 30 minutes a day. I’m by no means a fitness guru, nor do I look like a swimwear model, but I definitely feel...
Patience is not something that comes easily for me. I like to get things done - decide, organise, do. No fussing around. I often get frustrated when plans get delayed or changed. My wonderful husband is quite different. He is comfortable to wait on decisions...
I’m a morning person. I love being up when there is a slight chill in the air before the sun rises fully and the sound of the birds waking up is the only sound I hear. It is at this time that I get my...