Blast from the past post.

As I am slowly working through the years of this blog, removing some personal details (keeping them in the private blog only), I keep stumbling on posts that were either very popular or that I believe should have been more popular and had more comments, or that I feel was a good piece of writing or information. I have decided to from time to time feature them on a Wednesday (for a way- back).

Today I am featuring a post form 17 March 2011

So what would you have done?

If you were a mom in Japan, tomorrow a week ago? Alone, at home with 3 small kids. Would you grab the two smallest and try to speak to the oldest to get them to safety as soon as the earthquake starts? And after that, assuming you made it out safe and now have to flee in front of a possible tsunami? Truly, I have no idea.

To read more click here
(It only had 65 views -very low for my blog at that time.)

You can stay in the car....

....she said on Monday morning, waving a kiss over her shoulder as she walked to the school gate all on her own. I watched her through the fence until she dropped her bag in front of her class and jopined a group of girls doing handstands . This is the grade 1 girl that cried that first morning, that did not want to let go of mom. In just 3 and a half short weeks her confidence has grown in leaps and bounds. I feel rather nostalgic, but very proud.

We have also reached the end of another era. A few weeks ago after a big garage clean out we took every single bit of baby stuff we had and donated it to Hospice. We took some of the good stuff to one of the second hand baby shops but after being offered R150 for a perfect high quality camping cot we decided to rather donate it and let some good come from it for others. And then. last week one of Hunter's field guiding friends had twins - an unexpected no 4 and 5 to the number of kids. We decided to give them our much used but still good twin stroller (btw it is a Maclaren twin stroller and my, I loved it and it served us so well). Now all things baby is removed from our house. For walks, we use the soap box cart that my FIL made for us, the Princess rides her bicylcle, and in the shops, we are well trained in shopping cart use by now.

And so we grow and thrive. Well, most of the time.
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So blogging friends,  following on my Blast from the Past post last week, it seems we could have the beginnings of a linky or such. So, say every second Thursday every body that is interested will be invited fro a Blast from the Past post where you link back and show us one of your old posts, that we might never have seen. So, for next Thursday the 1st of March, lets do this: Go back to the first March that the blog you want to link existed, find your favorite post from that month, and link it. I will keep the link open for a whole week.

Blast from the past post

Way back in September I did a few blast from the past posts, where I showed you some of my favorite posts from way back. I am resuming today and my, am I enjoying going over them and picking the best bits.

This one is one of those classic photos I will never forget. The boys were 5 months old at the time....go here.

So who else wants to join in remembering those old blogposts, way before we read each others blogs? SHall we do a linky. Who is interested?

Blast from the past post 4

Even back in 2008, I dropped some balls along the way - this is one classic example.

I am not her friend anymore.

That's now The Little Miss's friend. Her school has a strict rule that no toys from home are allowed apart from "show and tell" days.Click here to read more.

Blast from the past post 3

My blast from the past today (from July 2008) features one of the most brilliant parties we have ever attended. Please have a look - especially if you have a soon to be one year old.

A first Bday party actually for the one year old set.

You know how first birthday parties are actually for everybody except the one year old? Well to re-cap, on Saturday the 21st June we went to H's cousins little darling's first birthday party. The mom warned on the invite that this was a baby party and not really for the bigger brothers and sisters although they were welcome to attend.Click here to read more...

Blast from the past post 2

As the blast from the past post was a success last week, here's my featured post for this week - our little min-architect - also from June 2008. The first paragraph is just some chit chat, and then the cuteness follows.

Playing house

We erected her play tent in the garden as she asked for it. She immediately moved her doll's camping cot, pram and stove and pots and pants into the tent. When checking on her half an hour later, she was busy "having a nap " on top of her jungle gym. Click here to read more

Blast from the past post 1

So I have decided to feature a post from when I started blogging every week - as many of my current readers did not read my blog back then. So from June 2008, there's this little gem:

Conversation on our way to school.

The Little Miss is in the 110's of questions phase. Our conversation in the car on our way to school this morning went something like this:
A: " Mommy, why does daddy shave?"... click here to read more