Sperm Whales & Pink Flamingos

Our overnight bags are packed. Presents are wrapped. The house is clean. Fresh sheets line our beds and a beeswax candle burns on the kitchen bench.…

The North Pole

Our first little North Pole party. Little children in their jammies, faces lit up by twinkle lights, cookies in their little hands. Just like it…

Let’s play a game. It’s called: How We Are Feeling About Christmas (In One Photo). We’ll start with Joel. This is how Joel is feeling about…

She wore a white tee and a navy polka dot skirt on her first day of kindergarten. Her backpack looked so inappropriately large, which only made…

There’s really no other way to start this post than with a great giant cup of egg nog. I was in Woolworths yesterday, forgetting to put…

A few weeks back, I gave my husband a deadline for our house renovations. It went something like: I don’t care what it takes, but that Christmas…

We threw a Christmas in July party on Friday night – our first one ever – partly because nobody needs to tell me twice to string…

Why hello there! We flew into Mumbai early this morning and we’re all so giddy with excitement we don’t know what to do with ourselves. Ella…

We’re here. It’s Christmas eve. I was putting out cookies and milk for Santa earlier this evening, high on joy, immersed in it – my favourite…

“Ella, how many sleeps until Santa gets here?” I ask. She extends her hand and pops three fingers in the air, a grin spreading across her…