Swimming in this insane heatwave! Nothing like a chilled Sunday :)

cloth nappy fun, much better than any toys :P

A bit of a throwback picture to my twins' first little play area. Sadly we had to put the alphabet mats away as they just kept lifting them up and trying to eat them...the joys of babies discovering the

2018 started with a bang: many bangs from fireworks and the bang of standing watching them with tears streaming down my face...not from joy but from pure sadness and loneliness. What followed where 3 days

A Mother's Beauty

Not that I use it a lot because, let's face it, it would be rather embarrassing if my kids' first word was fuck. But it's a nice expressive piece of language isn't it.

Yesterday I set up the camp cot as an experiment and out of pure desperation. And they looked pretty stoked. I felt optimistic. Hah! Little schemers! My girls are not sleeping and as we cosleep this obviously

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I feel like a character out of Bad Moms. That doesn’t make me a bad mom, it makes me real and raw and human. We become moms and suddenly feel we have to change who

That fall, before the snows came, the bees buzzed in spite of us and nature, it still danced its magic something deep within us knew that life would never be the same yet we closed our eyes and soaked

Who profits by selling us on the idea that taking pills helps us feel better? How can we know the truth without testing the results in our own lives? Since I could walk, I took some form of a pill daily

Man have I missed writing! Being back home meant the start of our big move so I've had no time to write in between packing up an entire flat by myself whilst still running a household (cleaning went out

Today I saw a kid gliding past me on his hoverboard with his face glued to a smartphone, this really got me thinking about where we humans are heading and how long it will take before we become 90% cyborg

#Singlelife omg it's 22:15! It's time to head out! Paaartaay! #Parentlife omg it's 22:15! It's way past my bedtime! Zzzzzz!

The truth of motherhood:

The secret of my own happiness - Socially shy but open to the world Music is magic for me, it's some pure action. I don't have to focus on the results of the action, I just have to put my focus on the

To you, sitting up with your little one at 3am, reading this: you are doing a great job. Being a mom is hard. It’s shitty and it’s wonderful, making you want to simultaneously scream and laugh and cry

So for those who don't know...which is probably all of you...I am a bit of a foodie and looove creating healthy recipes. However, having six month old twins doesn't often lend time to spending hours in

The twinsies were so excited to see their daddy again when we got back to Cape Town after our six week sabbatical in Newcastle. I captured some precious interaction between Astryd and Daddy ❤ check the

I have a case of #twinmomlife. I'm back home in Cape Town and after a week I still haven't unpacked or sorted through my own clothes! So yes, I'm still alive 😎 and I'm itching to write a decent post again.

Grandpa Paul with Astryd. Big girl holding her bottle for the first time. This child is sneaky...she'll develop a skill and sit on it for ages without showing anyone, then quietly one day she'll decide,