Raising Men is a blog about Travel. Family. Food and Life. In South Africa

Holy rabbits on toast  this is scary. Hello. This is my first ever blog post on my new Raising Men site. You know – when I switched over to WordPress I was like “Hey Hugh and Werner, can you guys just export my blog, import it here and give me the logins. Thanks.” HA HA HA HA. That was a long time ago.

I’ve switched to WordPress for several reasons and I’m gonna tell you why because when I was on blogspot and people moved to WordPress I was SCARED. Very much an Ice Age sloth “Hey where’s everyone going?” moment. I’ll quickly tell you what annoyed me about Blogspot.

I wanted to self-host. I want to add some SEO. It looks better. Y’all can comment without hassles. I need to become a WordPress PRO for work, so practicing over here is a heck-load better than practicing on my clients, right? That’s actually the main reason. Truth is, I was very happy with Blogger. It was lemon-squeezy.

So here is the new blog, a new look – graciously designed by Graeme Bettles Design. Built by Hugh and Werner, over at Joomper. Nicest guys EVER.

I also wanted to take a moment to chat about something. Raising Men has grown. When I started I was super in to babies (Ben was 6 weeks old) and all things nappies and teething. Now that the boys are older and proper little people… I don’t feel like I’m really a ‘Mommy Blog’ anymore. I love mommy blogs – some of my best friends are mommy bloggers. I’ve been turning down a lot of ‘mom’ things because I’m a mom 24/7 baby 365. I like to come to Raising Men and escape a bit – talk about my other interests. Food, travel, beauty, gadgets and some ‘dear diary’ moments on all things LIFE. I love writing about my boys, but they’re getting big now! Noah doesn’t like having pictures taken anymore. He’s also becoming a proper little boy where he gets quite proud, shy, has secrets and becoming a bit more private in general. With that, their online lives will become a bit more private too.

We also used to be cooped up at home a lot with a newborn and a 2 year old. Leave the house? HA HA HA! Go on holiday? Can I rather be induced again? But things have changed. The boys are pretty much enormous. They’re loud, bubbly, sometimes polite and extremely outdoorsy. The travel bug has bitten them right on their little bunny bums. I’m really in to business, health and running right now, Graeme loves all things design, outdoors and travel. Sometimes I just want to sit down and he’s like NO. We must cycle, fish, hike, run, kayak, explore and discover!

So things will mostly be the same around here, mostly different. I don’t really know how it’s going to work out just yet. I’ve added a cool travel section to the blog in the navigation bar. That way – if you’re super in to travel or if you’re coming to the Cape – you can scroll through the drop-down menus and look at some of the places we’ve been to (and haven’t been to) but more on that later. I still have to go tag a few posts and do LOTS of back-end stuff that I’m dragging my feet on. I ONLY WANT TO DO THE FUN STUFF! – general life philosophy.

So hello. This is the new vibe. Look around, tell me if you see something that is like so obviously wrong that I can’t even see it. This is all new and I’m not very good at the ‘being perfect’ thing. As we know. Thanks guys! Also, please let me know what you think of the new site. I’d really love that!

PS: LOOK HUGH I DID IT AND NOTHING BROKE!