FIVETRIBE

This weekend SA celebrated Heritage Day - many Saffers choose to braai but I dont really subscribe to that tradition (unless I wanted to braai anyway!). On Saturday morning I took my little sproglets down to the REaders Warehouse to choose new books for the holidays. Yes, we have a library but I like to buy books on occasion aswell. My kids thoroughly enjoy reading and it is such a spoil to spend an hour perusing all the series on offer these days. Levi ended up buying a box set of '10 best books for boys' which he will be flying through in the next 6months. I also bought him 3 stage 5 readers to enjoy right now....although he keeps trying to read the more difficult books and getting frustrated!! Rachel bought the first in the Percy Jackson series aswell as a book revolving around human cloning which looks a real treat! Cant wait to read them both. Right now though she is still busy with Catching Fire (book 2 in Hunger Games trilogy). Faith made me laugh as she became u...

I am happy to report that I am on track with my |31 Days|  writing assignment. After taking all afternoon to print, align, download, find paper etc and collating in 12x12 format I decided to forgo the scrap-style which Ali herself is using. I am simply doing mine in Word in a uniformly formatted grid style. I am actually killing 2 birds with one stone as I am able to use numerous new tricks from my Typography class!    happy feet! I could not resist these flipflops from Pick n Pay today - at only R20 a piece! I live in either my trainers or flops so this is surely not a penny wasted.  happy little people I went to the matinee of the kids end of year play. It was completely different from the huge production put on last year. (Kidsummers Nights Dream). It was a lovely little musical - Psalty the Songbook. My kids were less than enthralled as it is quite juvenile but ultimately a lovely, feel-good production. School closes for 2weeks tomorrow -...

I have signed up to do Ali Edwards' |31 DAYS| course. I was up until midnight last night going through the tutorials and printing out the class notes. I AM BEYOND THRILLED about this class. It is not a scrapbooking class. There are no embellisments required. In fact, my mom who is not a scrapper,  is joining me on this journey. It is a writing class which can be made into a scrapbook or a blog or a diary or or or. You take this and make it your own; create any type of outcome. It is not a writing class that is going to teach you grammar or sentence construction - it is a class that is going to take you deeper into your everyday reality. The only requirement is that you write, based on the prompts, every day for 31 days. The methodology is sublime in its simplicity and working through my first assignment today felt like coming home.

Tough day...he took a spill and split his chin! Both mom and patient given suckers for shock! Early Monday morning rising to go over Xhosa...because weekends are not for studying!! First shorts and tees of Spring - hiking and working up an actual sweat! Too much sun and sand - the best kind of exhaustion Late nights runs with mom! Exploring CT with friends - Franschoek for breakfast! Still practising walking in these before going public - I is making progress! Praying daily for this relationship as all is seldom well in this world. Loving my leg warmers (and pumps!) Safely stowed for next winter. Watching this young lass blossom as well as learn some hard life lessons. Loving exploring nature weekly with my running partner Discovering new markets with cute clothes. Hand me downs are simply the best - she lives in clothes that 'feel just right' Chilling out at friends house. The same friends house...but you wont catch mad...

Cape Town is seriously showing off this Spring with temperatures in the upper 20's already. We (I) decided it would be a great day to head up to the West Coast National Park to see the flowers and hang out at the lagoon. He is a real sand-lover this lad! I love the interaction between us her The trip proved long and hot and laborious. We had to make a few stops along the way ... and the first entry point to the Park had a queue of almost 1km of cars. We decided to head straight up to Langebaan and enter there - the drive seemed to take FOREVER and once in the Park the drive continued... The kids were pretty impressive, all things considered, we left home at 815 and we only arrived at the lagoon at 1145! Churchaven is exquisite - we spent about 2 hours just arbing on the beach and paddling in the lagoon. Unfortunately it was too hot (midday!!) and there is no shade...plus the masses arrived and when I have to start dodging balls I have a tendency to get grumpy. ;-...

(posted from my phone!) The day dawned crystal clear with not a breath of wind. This made bolting out of bed before 8am completely do-able for me. I waved my sleepy family goodbye to join a mate for a leisurely run through beautiful Noordhoek. Upon my return home I felt it fitting to rid myself of any reminder of winter .... put all my summer stuff in my wardrobe.... Ah, lovely ! Around midday (cos russ was watching the shocker bok game ) we headed to Silvermine for our first hike of the season. There was much griping as it was truly blistering hot .... And the kiss havent hiked in 2mths.... But we all soldiered on! A hop, a skip and a JUMP! In my element - wide open quiet spaces Guess who got an iPhone? The dogs couldnt be happier to see Spring My favouritist people in the world. Pretty impressive. And the view is nice too. ;-) Grabbing a breather in some shade. Awed by the view of Hout Bay Proving a point! There was much groaning and sweating up t...

Today was just one of those unexpected feel-good days. Started with everyone getting off to school with no drama which is always feel-good in and of itself! From drop-offs I went to park my car to do a 5km time trial as I am trying to increase my running pace in preparation for a 10km road run next month. Trail running is an almost spiritual type of zen-like awesomeness for me....but road is all about DOING IT AS FAST AS I CAN because it really kind of has no other real purpose...at least for me. There is nothing 'zen' running alongside morning traffic!! I then popped up to my folks to shower and have breakfast with them before heading to BEAUTIFUL Kalk Bay to catch up with Jeannie. We had to pop in at Big Blue and oooh and aaah over all the divine goodies before finding good coffee and pancakes! At around noon we shot off to Noordhoek beach as I needed to take some 'selfies' for Jeannies Project 40 album - they came out beautifully especially after she 'a...

A Tapas dinner at Foodbarn celebrating a very special man! We decided to head to River Cafe at Uitsig for breakfast 21 years together and we still like taking 'couple' pics! Opening pressies before school/work Cuddles with the birthday dad! Rach got up early and made tea/hot choc and breakfast on a beautifully laid table.

Living in the estate is finally paying dividends in all the ways we dreamed it would six years ago. my triptych! he is getting pretty adept on his blades now note: the jackets OFF the shoulders....just like the cardi...! madam giving instructions as she eats her mcflurry check her go! deciding if it worth approaching the lazy cat! The kids can rollerblade safely in our cul-de-sac; simple things like this really make me happy.