Hello world....it's been a while!

So, I started this blog post in June 2017!! It has been sitting in my draft box for almost a year... so I think it's about time that it was posted! Enjoy the outdated update!

Those age-old cliches of "time flies when you're having fun", and "life is what happens when you're busy making other plans", couldn't be more relevant to my life in the last six months. Where has the time gone???? We're halfway through 2017 already, and I haven't even had a chance to sit down and put my thoughts down into a single blog post?!?! Time to catch up...

So, some of the big news items so far in 2017:

1) New Year's trip into Lesotho in January resulted in the conception of baby Thomas number 2, who is due in September 2017! Very exciting news - can't wait to meet the little cutie!

2) Corkie and I swam the Midmar Mile (February 2017) for charity this year. Hopefully next year we'll be more organised and get some serious moola for the PinkDrive.

 
3) Little sister (AKA Ratus Bratus) tied the knot on the farm in March 2017 (*sob*) - no more Torr weddings! All done now with Torr4 a hitched woman!

4) April 2017 - Started a new business with the afore mentioned Ratus Bratus specializing in the selling and renting of pre-loved wedding dresses - Twice Is Nice Boutique. (www.twiceisniceza.com). Know someone looking for an affordable designer wedding dress? Send them our way!

That's about all the exciting news bits and pieces from the last few months... now we are just waiting for Winter to arrive in the Midlands. It's been so mild this year, only two really big frosts so far, and a lot of the grass is still green! We've been waiting weeks to try and get our firebreaks done...not that I'm complaining! But I'm sure this means we are going to have a late cold snap and late Spring rains which translates to another challenging season ahead for the farm. At least now our dams are full again (I will do a post on that next) so that everyone is a little happier going into Winter this year - including the cows!

I used to write...

There was a time when I used to write...

When days were seemingly endless, and time was abundant.

When uninterrupted thoughts flowed eloquently into well constructed, interesting pieces of writing.

That time is gone now. 

Its distant memory haunts me when I get a chance to try gather my thoughts in the mornings as I attempt to get my toddler to put on her clothes for the fourth time and stop picking her nose, and breastfeeding my infant at the same time, whilst sipping on a cup of tea that has been waiting for the last twenty minutes and is now ice-cold...when I am reminded that adulting is now my full time occupation, and that there is not even the faintest glimpse of that past era when...I used to write. And read. And have other hobbies like going to the toilet on my own, exercising alone, or going shopping without a destructive hurricane disguised as a cute little blonde 2 year old girl trying to break or buy everything at knee height in the entire shop.

Yes, those days are gone. They have been replaced by mornings that start at 4:30am, with little people demanding all of the hours in the day until 9pm at night... preparing school lunches, mashing every conceivable vegetable into baby food, expressing milk to feed said baby, school runs, wedding dress business, swimming lessons, fundraisers, committee meetings, cows, farming, cows, more cows, bathtime, play time, dinner time, story time, bedtime... oh the glorious sound of silence at the end of it all. Then its time for "me-time"- after tidying up, expressing milk for the morning, preparing lunch boxes and school bags, doing the washing, and catching up on admin. 

But, I will write again. Of this I am sure. This period is fleeting and I am trying to appreciate every moment spent with our precious children before they don't need me anymore...

Hopefully this is the beginning of a blogspot revival. 

Watch this space!