• Noah Turns Eight
    family,  General,  Life,  Parenthood

    This Is Eight!

    Today, our boy turned a whole 8 years old. I can’t quite wrap my head around that. Eight. EIGHT! I’ve been thinking about the last 8 “27 February’s” a lot today. I hope this makes sense! 8 years of watching…

  • Adoption,  Parenthood

    3 years down…forever to go!

    I’ve been looking forward to this day ALL month long! My emotions are all over the place, as I think back to this day, three years ago, and relive every moment of it, feel all the emotions again, and experience a…

  • family,  motherhood,  Parenthood

    “Just Noah”

    Just before Easter, Noah had made a set of bunny ears at school, and when I went to pick him up, he came out wearing them. He looked so darn cute, I just couldn’t resist, and said, “Hello, Bunny Noah!”…

  • Inspiration,  Parenthood

    A lesson from my 3-year-old

    As parents, there are a lot of things we have taught our Noah over the years. We’ve taught him to sit, crawl and walk. We’ve taught him to feed himself. We’ve recently been teaching him how to brush his own…

  • Parenthood

    Tell me a story…

    Jason and I have always been avid readers. I remember learning to read “Sally Books” (at least, that’s what we called them. I’m not actually sure what the collection of books is called). They were a series of books all…

  • Uncategorized

    Life With a 3-Year-Old

    “I’m not a baby, Mommy, I’m a big boy!”  That’s what I hear most days from my 3-year-old, when I call him my Baby Boy. How do we have a 3-year-old already? And how is he already able to reply…

  • Uncategorized

    Memories to last a lifetime

    Here we are, about a month and a half after having arrived in Cape Town. While we are so happy to be back in the 021, there is still a part of me that really misses Durban and all its…

  • Food,  Inspiration

    Feed a child, feed a dream

    When I look at my Noah, I see a little prince, with the whole world at his feet. Jason and I often talk about all the things he could possibly do with his life. We talk, we dream, we nurture,…

  • family,  Parenthood

    Beast, meet the Baby Beast…

    When we first got Noah, Jason saw a future rugby player. And since then, he has done everything he can, to make sure Noah knows and loves rugby, as much as dad does! I mean, we have a photo of…

  • Inspiration,  Lifestyle

    Hello 2017!

    Here we are. Seven days into 2017. It’s been a full, busy, sometimes relaxing, sometimes really hard seven days.  2016 seemed to be a really hard year for a lot of people I know. For us, it was just a…