This blog was two years old on Saturday! 584 posts with this one after two years... Happy birthday Blog! I read my first blog post again, ...

Mieka at 8 weeks The heartbeat is the sound of a horse galloping very fast! That’s what it sounded like when we first heard it at the gyn...

Cat at juggling act of life tagged me. Thanks, Cat, you gave me a headache! ;-) My photo’s are on 3 computers, and before that – photo’s of ...

My 2 beautiful daughters It is wonderful to be a mother! Today we spent the day with family, and I felt grateful for the opportunity to h...

No, we did not have the big party! Mieka was looking at us in utter amazement with our party hats, and balloons and candles yesterday morn...

The gender of a baby is a very personal issue to a mother. I get extremely upset when somebody refers to Mieka as a boy! I dress her 99% of ...

11 months, 2 weeks: The baby does not sleep through the night. Not yet! But it is going much much better, thank you very much! We had a bad ...

( MA is mother in the Afrikaans language, but also an abbreviation for Magister Atrium ) Arnia has started with her exams – THAT time of th...

Great joy! The first tooth has arrived at ten months! Mieka was taking a bite from Dries’s ice-cream when he said he felt something last ni...

I was helping to dish out cards at work yesterday at the entrance of our building. We noticed how people came in with a positive or negative...

The bubble brain has turned into the blank brain. It feels as if I have nothing more to contribute to life, never mind a blog. I am glad Mar...

Mieka has not started to crawl yet, and it seems she is not going to. All she wants to do at this stage is walk, with us having to walk with...

A working mother’s day is influenced by how well it is going at the day care she leaves her child. When something is out of whack, you feel ...

I should not have jinxed it, by saying that it is going better with the sleeping . Since then, we have been getting up more at night… (Smile...

I am still sad today about not expressing milk at work anymore for Mieka to drink at the day mother. But I was thinking about Arnia, my 16-y...

I am a bit sad today. I have been contemplating to stop expressing milk at work, but yesterday it came to decision time. I have been struggl...

A glorious weekend has gone by, and we spent it with friends and family. On Saturday we went to the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden ...