Skip to main content

The Great Catch Up

As you may have noticed, I'm making a desperate effort to repair my blog-putation, following gross neglect over what we affectionately call: Cycle Tour silly season!

While the big week of events has come and gone, we are still waiting for the dust to settle...before we kick it all up again I guess! In early February, my colleague walked past my desk and said in jest, "We can be friends again...after this!" However, it was only half said in jest! During our peak time, there's very little time for much else than the job. There's no sweet way to put it.

So instead of inserting my report of the events here, let me rather document some of the special-at-or-outside-of-work occurrences:

Valentine's Day
Like when the girl who's 'not dating' that guy, got arms full of roses and candies while the oud-getroude vrou just got a smile!
Valuable advice
 Or when I came across a good reminder of how to approach the awesome task of parenting...

Then there was the day I could 'bring my kids to work' at let them enjoy one of our events -

Ethan was happy to be my tail, on and off the course!

Refreshment break after the 1.7km ride

Jorja rediscovered her passion for pedaling!
 And the other time when I really couldn't find a babysitter and had to bring them to a less exciting work setup on a Saturday. Turns out, kids still enjoy calling their siblings across the room - something that Rob and I loved to do at Bonny's work!



There was the time I discovered that Ethan had worked out how to get to the right height at the bathroom basin. He's since discovered that it's also useful for opening out of reach cupboards, doors and counter tops!


We always enjoy going to visit Zac on a free Saturday and the boys enjoy lots of play and mischief!



 Nevermind that the Micasa concert was rained out, Jorja offered us an open air performance in the comfort of our own lawn...


And one more occasion of 'bring A kid to work' day although this was only so that I could take him to the Dr for a check up!!

This past weekend was our first event-free time and we celebrated by visiting the Cape Town Carnival in Green Point. Papu and Yaya took us down, we met up with familiar faces and enjoyed watching the floats pass us by. Of course, Annie was the 2nd last group to parade down the street, and by that time we had been standing for 4 hours straight! But it was a colourful display of a lot of what Cape Town has to offer the locals and visitors - so we enjoyed being a part of that.

Ask Papu how much fruit sucker he found in his hair!

Mamma Afrika

Colourful gymnastics



A beautiful protea

Just for sleeping Ethan
...And those are some of my favourite pre, post and during event time memories that I'd like to share with you.

I sometimes have to remember that this blog is about sharing 'life as we see it'...and well sometimes, it's just a blur!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A home-made birthday

Due to the fact that we celebrated Jorja's birthday with the Weber and Wilcox families in the UK last year - over a few days and in various styles - we were a bit out of practice. In fact, if Jorja had not brought it to my attention with just two weeks to spare, I must confess that I would not have expected it to arrive for another few more weeks! But Moms could never let that seem to be the case, so we got cracking on 5th birthday celebration arrangements... On the night before, I set out every baking ingredient, apparatus and accessory that I could find and hoped that we would make it work! Aunty Robyn and Aunty Ilana arrived just in time to help us bake off the first round of vanilla cake pops and cookies with sprinkles. At this point, there was no turning back, our kitchen was already in a state of bake! The biscuit batch baked beautifully (and bountifully) and Jorja was well pleased with her assisted effort. As she head to bed on the eve of her birthday, I popped the...
2 comments
Read more

The week that has been...

"Life as we see it", right? My time so far at the cycle tour office is reminding me of just how demanding life in this age can be - a time seeking instant solution and gratification: We want it now! We won't wait! This is what makes a relaxing, easy going activity seem so rewarding! We've always been fortunate enough to cook with pleasure - obviously more for mine! And since returning from BA, we've also found great enjoyment from leisurely strolls in the neighbourhood or at Sea Point promenade. Take time for this! Here's what we've been a part of this past week: We were encouraged to see a group of students from Bishops come out (even in the rain) and join with the FBC team in painting a mural on the school's new diningroom and kitchen wall. For news and updates visit: http://www.fbcschool.org.za/ We joined over 15 000 walkers in a quest to feed the hungry children in the Western Cape, by participaing in the Blisters for Bread walk on Sunday. We tackl...
1 comment
Read more

Day 5

P-J left early this morning to help offload the hay bales into storage and then came back to fetch us (giving me time to blog!). When we got to the farm, I realised that my Tomi Takkies were not designed for farm fashion... and that pretty much determined my day. I was on indoor duty - filling water bottles, changing nappies, supervising indoor play ... and enjoying the air-conditioning in the 34 degree heat. What a perfect day for a fashion faux pas! Before being labeled a City Snob, let me just say that I was part of the team that moved the sheep to their new pasture (although I did not help with separating the cows and the sheep, or erecting what P-J called Insta-fence in the blazing heat, prior to the migration). The new fence was opened up and the rest of us worked our way up from the bottom of the field saying "Come girls, move up. Come on" and hoped the flock would follow suit. We met Tutu (after Ethan insisted my sheep, my sheep ) and the boys showed Ethan ho...
2 comments
Read more