Monthly Archives: May 2013

Benjamin’s first Baker Man Day at big little school today. Bring on the cute!

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Benjamin had his first Baker’s Day at school today. Last night mommy and daddy sat up until way after bedtime making 17 cupcakes (and extras for the teachers too!). We got the cupcake recipe from the World Baking Day site and I received a few great ingredients from Stork that I was keen to make use of. I also had a whole container of NoMU’s Dark Chocolate Cocoa Powder that I knew would be a hit. You don’t understand how tangy, chocolaty and creamy that icing was. I love baking, and I love spoiling the boys. Baker’s Day is this thing they do at school… Every Friday just one of the kids’ parents bake or buy a few treats for their child to ‘sell’ to his class. Each child pays for the treat with a R5 and this goes toward the school’s fundraising project for cool things like more sand

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The crumbs after the biscuits. The dishes after the dinner. The morning.

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So yesterday’s post *looks down, shuffles feet* Within two or three hours, it had become my most popular post to date – in three years. I received an influx of support, emails, tweets, messages… Mostly from people that I had never met or spoken to before. I opened up my heart to you and it opened up my inbox. It was amazing to talk to and ‘meet’ a few of you that hide behind Raising Men’s blog stats. I was completely emotionally flattened by the kind words – I was literally shaking when I hit publish on that post. It’s those little moments that take our breath away and make us feel alive. My heart pumped bubblegum milkshake when I read Stacey’s comment, something that I will keep and cherish for the rest of my life – until I’m old and gray and crazy: “You are so. damn. real. … Read the rest

Blogger locked-in syndrome. A note from the author, from the heart: ME.

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I have been writing on Raising Men for about three years. Before that, I had about two or three notebooks and journals per year, since I was 12. I’m horribly sentimental and emotional – I am. I’m not going to sit here and try tell you how emotionally stable and together I am. One minute I’m (literally) bunny-hopping around the house with my toddlers, the next I’m crying buckets over Lexi in Grey’s Anatomy. In a lot of ways I’m a lot like you and in other ways we have nothing in common. 



My biological father died when I was about Noah and Benjamin’s age. I can never sit next to him and compare our hands, our eyes. I don’t know much about him at all. My brother Neil died in a road accident when I was in my late teens and I have so little of him too. I … Read the rest

Another one of those little parenting things that I leave until the last minute.

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A WHILE ago, I was invited as part of this year’s Bake Brave challenge. What a super cool initiative, campaign, design, website – all of it very rad. I was at a coffee shop with my mum when two Stork Bake Brave Secret Agents delivered a box filled with ingredients and other goodies to me. It had a lock and I had to tweet them for the code and there were photos and it was all very fun. I was tasked to bake the Turkish Delight Cake but man alive these past two weeks have been something crazy and we went away on a spontaneous trip that weekend. With all the fun we’re having, and ALL the side projects – it’s just too much for one little mama rabbit to get through. I love baking and I have a collection of great books sent by friends and authors. My … Read the rest

I really should be working. Stopping in to say hello goodbye I’m late I’m late

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It’s Sunday afternoon and I’m really supposed to be working. I still don’t have internet at home, and using my phone as a tethering wifi hotspot, or something. I’ve been so busy with so many things – I’ve been working every night to get things going. All my little side projects, my book and my freelance work that needs to burn in open fire by 1 July. Telkom, ADSL, registrations, bank accounts, accountants, templates, logos, rate cards… You don’t know. I feel so completely exhilarated and absolutely alive. I feel like I’ve just entered possibly the most rewarding and exciting phase of my life. 
This is something else. Everything is unpredictable right now, nothing is normal – things could change in a second and I love that. I thrive in the unknown and unexpected, it’s such a rush. I’m always trying to find a way to improve everything that I … Read the rest
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