The place with the interesting things!

Spending the December holidays in Joey's this year, meant we had to find things to do to keep our offspring busy (and stop us from losing our sanity and patience dealing with long faces and whining!) So one sunny morning, we headed to New Town to check out Sci-Bono. I have overheard many moms raving about how …

Photo Friday … Zooby dooby doo

{Another visit to the Johannesburg zoo during the December holidays}  

Meet you on the other side…

At school, there are a couple of pathways that lead from the parking lot to the classroom. When we arrive, I always ask Alex which way he would like to go; past the fish-pond, under the mulberry trees etc. His reply is inevitably "I'll meet you on the other side!" (Which means: he goes down …

Home Front

Kristin Hannah is fast becoming one of my favourite authors. I bought “Firefly lane” for my book club a while ago, and absolutely loved it. Most of the girls in my book-club have read it too, and it has touched each one of us in a different, yet special way. I have just finished reading …

The magic of Christmas

To say that there was some excitement in our house for Christmas this year would be an understatement. Our Christmas tree was already up by mid-November, if that says anything (at which point I was being nagged on a daily basis to put it up, by my dear boy child). Alex only really got  the …

We’re all going on a summer holiday… or not!

In late November, we received a call out of the blue from one of the estate agents that had been marketing our holiday apartment in Ballito. In December the year before (2011), we bought a piece of land, and a year later, after to-ing and fro-ing with architects, builders and council approvals, we are finally …