One and a half weeks ago I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. The experience and the following few days were nothing like what I thought they would be, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. That will be the topic of a future blog post, but the result is that I have now spent 8 days with a precious Little Hooman, and have learnt a thing or four…
Continue reading “Little Life Lessons”To Iron, or Not to Iron?
Today, I ironed.
This may not seem like a big deal to other people, but the fact that I haven’t ironed anything in probably close on 5 years makes it a relatively big deal to me.
Continue reading “To Iron, or Not to Iron?”As we settle into the second week of this lockdown, I realise with more and more clarity that this is not a normal world that you are going to be born into. While I am hoping and praying that things will have at least somewhat returned to ‘normal’ in 5 weeks’ time, I am acutely aware that the chances get slimmer every day, and that this ‘new normal’ may be indefinitely prolonged.
Continue reading “Dear Baby Girl,”It is the day before an unprecedented occurrence in South Africa’s history. From tomorrow, the country will be in a 21-day lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19. We will only be allowed outside of our properties to shop for essential groceries and household and medical supplies, and to attend emergency medical appointments.
Woooops! Falling a bit behind here (not in terms of the actual Inktobers [I’ve been doing quite well with those], but definitely on my blog posts). But it is times like these when my blog’s tagline rings particularly true…
In any case, here are my 5th and 6th Inktobers: Continue reading “Inktober 2018 Days 5 & 6: Chicken & Drooling”
Today’s Inkober prompt was spell. Originally I had thought I would be doing something related to magic type spells, but after some Googling, I came across this quotation: Continue reading “Inktober 2018 Day 4: Spell”
Today’s Inkober prompt was roasted. I had NO idea what I was going to do for this one… Chicken? Coffee Beans? But then suddenly something popped into my head, and I couldn’t shake it… Continue reading “Inktober 2018 Day 3: Roasted”
Today’s Inkober prompt was tranquil. I honestly didn’t think that it would be difficult to find a great quote or lyric for this prompt, but in the end I made up my own piece of wisdom as I couldn’t find anything I liked. Continue reading “Inktober 2018 Day 2: Tranquil”
Oh my word, it has been a (very long) while! But I’m back (for the moment at least)!
Last week my almost-sister-in-law talked me into participating in the 2018 Inkober initiative. She has been participating in it for a couple of years (she is an awesome artist, you should totally check out her website, and some of her previous Inktobers here, here, and here…). The initial conversation went something like this: Continue reading “Inktober 2018 Day 1: Poisonous”
Nanuq (AKA Nookie, AKA Baby Girl), came into our lives as a flea-ridden, tick-infested, worm-infected puppy. We got her the day after the first dog I have ever truly loved passed away unexpectedly. Husband-man was insistent, but I believe I said something along the lines of “you can get a new dog, but you can’t make me love it”.
