We live in a lovely sunny townhouse in the southern suburbs of Cape Town. We bought our first home when we still had just one kid and back then we smugly thought to ourselves, ‘Yes, this is a lovely starter home for our little family’. Six years and another two kids later, we felt that an upgrade to our highly used outside area was in need. Although our family sometimes feels over-sized for our space, we are so grateful to have a place to call our own (well, let’s be honest it still belongs to the bank) and to have been able to turn our house into a home in some small ways since we moved in.Continue Reading
I’m pretty sure that Kira had been counting down the sleeps for her 5th birthday since the day she turned four. She was adamant that she wanted a Cinderella party and I tried to dissuade her for the longest time – that is, until I discovered that there is a made for TV Disney version of Cinderella starring Brandy, Whoopi Goldberg and Whitney Houston and a beautifully diverse cast.
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