Passion Gap

Kade is the very proud owner of his very own "Passion Gap"! After much wiggling and wriggling the stubborn tooth finally came out (without the help of a dentist). For those who are not familiar with the term passion gap...know this...there is a "cultural group" in the Cape that deliberately remove their front teeth and believe that in doing this, they are sexier, better looking and a good catch....yes it's true...it is sexy in some cultures to have no front teeth!!!
Ja well no fine hey! Nay bru....check out my sexy boooi chiiinah.

Scrap addict

I have always been a huge scrap booking fan although I hardly ever have the time to sit down and get on with it. Thanks to my new "load shedding" initiative, I finally found some time to join a few girls and dedicate a couple of hours to one of my favourite hobbies. Three kids in seven years has provided many, many photo opportunities and I certainly have plenty of catching up to do. The page was too big to fit into my little scanner and so I have had to photograph my handiwork but here is the proof that I am actually addicted once again!

The hardest words.

Stand in front of your mirror and just look at yourself? O.K. not really AT yourself but INTO yourself. Try it. Look past the wrinkles, the blubber, the grey hair (if you have any, I still vehemently deny that it was not grey hairs my hubby found but the misguiding light at that moment!). 1. Who are you? and 2. Do you like what you see? My answers; I haven't got the slightest clue and No. I am not the person I want to be, in fact each day I do things that I am decidedly ashamed of and wish I could take away, remove, delete, things I did, things I said. So many things I did and said. so many. daily.

To my husband and my beautiful children. I do love you. I am so sorry. Really. Please don't hate me.

Quit while you're behind

Due to the complete lack of interest on my part from a series of boycotting happenings this morning that resulted in screaming, hitting, kicking, food fights and adult arguing all between 06h30 and 07h15, today has been cancelled until further notice.

Breakfast boycotts and flying eggs

The battle for power is on again. The battle between the girls. I was always led to believe, while growing up, that the man was the head of the household, this statement, depending on how one looks at it can be true and false. Admittedly in our household, my husband is definitely the breadwinner but does that make him the HEAD of the house??? hhhmmmm, tricky?

There are days when I prefer him to be the head honcho but then there are days when it puts a feather in *MY* cap to say I am the boss around here, well, when it comes to the kids anyway. I think. Madam Fluff finds any opportunity to challenge this; this morning (and every other freeking morning actually) proves my point perfectly. Breakfast is a nightmare. She will refuse to eat anything, which completely contradicts the school's pleas of making sure your child has a healthy morning meal to ensure that they are awake, alert and not dreary and tired. All the fuss of getting Fluff to eat her breakfast is making me dreary and tired and a few other *beeping* things. Dragging (almost literally) her to school this morning in her PJ's didn't seem to feature too much either (perhaps she had noticed the pile of school clothes on the front seat and called by bluff, I 'm not sure.)

Is this a case of two stubborn hens fighting for the top spot or am *I* being stubborn in attempting to maintain my superiority by forcing something on her that isn't really as big of an issue as I am making it out to be? A little help here or as a fellow blogger so eloquently refers to as "assvice" (advice), would be greatly appreciated. I just don't see the point of making our mornings (as it is becoming) a traumatising experience for everyone in the household. Should I stick to my guns and insist that rules are rules (there are two other kiddies that I am afraid might cotton on to the idea of breakfast boycotting if I relent). My dilemma I hope to make your dilemma and would appreciate some ass kicking problem solving advice here. Thank you.