I don’t know about you but I grew up wearing Toughees school shoes. I remember the annual back to school visit to Shoe City to buy school shoes for the year, that new leather smell and I also remember my dad massaging the back of my shoes to soften the leather and speed up the ‘wearing in’ process. Continue Reading
In our family we chant ‘sharing is caring’ a million times a day, so I thought it would be great to bring the sharing and caring over to the blog this festive season. Would you like to walk away with an amazing hamper filled with Baby Dove essentials for you and a friend that will be delivered in time for Christmas? Well then, today is your lucky day! Continue Reading
I love printed photos, but honestly hardly get around to printing photos these days unless they ask for them at school but things need to change! I teamed up with Canon to put together this post explaining why printing physical photographs brings emotional benefits to children and strengthens a family bond.Continue Reading
I devoured ‘A Person My Colour – Love, Adoption and Parenting While White’ in two sittings – I urgently wanted to hear what Martina Dahlmans had to say because it resonated with me so deeply. I did so with wet cheeks and a nodding head of agreement as I recognised much of myself and our family’s adoption experience in the pages.Continue Reading
Two weeks ago I revealed our outdoor space makeover and we’re still enjoying the novelty of the new patio, especially since Cape Town has been experiencing some real summer days and balmy evenings. (If you skipped that post, you can see the makeover here.) Now that we’ve spent some time making the place look pretty, we’ve been inspired to keep going and have done a spot of gardening too – we’ve planted a new baby pincushion protea bush and we’ve hung up a bird feeder to attract some bird life to the garden.Continue Reading