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A birthday was looming and a wardrobe needed a bit of a refresher, so I went clothes hunting – not for myself, but for my daughter. I remember when she was eight despairing in the store as she and I had set aside a Saturday afternoon to go clothes hunting. Just the two of us. [...]

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Our youngest son… is three and a half today. We have a youngest child – he has claimed the spot… and he has earned it, with so many “parents” and so many authorities watching his every move he manages to hold his own!!! Se7en + 1 things he is wild about: Books… reading, being read [...]

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Recently a friend of mine posted a cry out for help: “My toddler just won’t eat… ” my first thought was that I have just never experienced that… but that so wouldn’t be true!!! The things that really worry us one week, as we march along the learning curve of parenting, quickly becomes something that [...]

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Imagine for a moment that you attend a moms group, our church has one. I imagine most churches have them. Moms get together and have Bible Study and the small non-school going children play in plain-sight of their mums. Well imagine if you were one of those moms and your normally sweet toddler decided to [...]

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Today is exactly three months since our previous post in the well-documented life of Hood #7 + 1… Where we mentioned that he had taken up flying… off the jungle gym that is… And ended up with his little leg in a plaster cast from his toes to the top. It was our first broken [...]

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I am a mother and I thought I felt the pain of mums with missing children. I have sobbed for Madeleine, I have shed countless tears for hundreds of children that have simply vanished on the Cape Flats – never to be seen or heard of again. While I empathized with those mothers and their [...]

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Yes I received a pile of artworks on my keyboard today… and I wasn’t actually intending to post another gallery for you all, but I have to share this poem by one of my hoods… And a post has to be illustrated – so thats me… followed by a poem for the mothers of this [...]

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