*In collaboration with HICH South Africa! If you know me personally, or if you’ve been reading my blog for a little while, you will know how important my animals are to me. Perhaps the strangest thing for me has been how shocked everyone is that we are moving abroad with our animals. We have four […]
Being Mom
Tips for Flying with Children
*This post was done in collaboration with Travelstart. Flying with children is tough! Seriously, it’s no joke. I went on my first flight as a mom with Oden when he was four months old. It wasn’t a very long flight, we flew to the Eastern Cape and he literally slept through the entire ordeal but […]
The end of the first year [ Oden graduates from his first year at “school”]
![The end of the first year [ Oden graduates from his first year at “school”]](https://tyrannyofpink.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/IMG-20170227-WA003-1024x575.jpg)
At the start of this year, my journey as the mother of a school going child began and I was terrified. I cried. I cried bucket loads. I really really struggled walking away every single morning for the first three weeks. Fast forward an entire year and today is the last day of school, the end […]
Making bath time fun with Zimpli Kids!
I don’t think there is a single parent on earth who can say that bath time is always the favourite time of day. Oden absolutely LOVES bath time and yet there are still days when it’s almost impossible to get him into one. So when I was offered the chance to test out this amazing […]
Breast is best!
We’ve been watching a TV series called “Call the midwife” and the whole show is about delivering babies and the many trials and tribulations around becoming a mother. The main characters are nurses/ midwives and nuns. It’s the kind of show that sucks you in. At 11pm we find ourselves saying “just one more” and […]
And just like that… Oden is two!
Not all that long ago, I was crumpled over myself in pain telling myself it’s just Braxton Hicks. It had to be, my baby was not due just yet. So there I was running myself a nice bath to help me relax before my obviously much wiser and much more realistic husband dragged me off […]
