The Real Jenty

Going to a spa with Madi for half the day

Jealous much?

I cannot wait!

We had organised it close to Mother’s Day so that the men could pay for it… but oh well… I actually forgot to tell Lance that little part.  LOL! Guess I’ll have to do without that new pair of shoes that I needed.

The kids are going to be so very tired of the car by the time we get to the coast on Tuesday.

We drove more than 3 hours to Badplaas on Friday, the same back home on Saturday, and we drove to Parys and back today (and that’s a 1 and a half hour trip one way).  And you know what kids are like in small confined space?!

But it’s also quite funny now with Connor trying to copy Bradley with the car games.

Take “eye spy” for example. Connor insists on having a turn between everyone else.

Today he goes “I spy, my ittle eye, something…. clouds”

So we guess “sky”, to which he replies “no”

“blue” again it’s a “no”

“sun” again it’s a “no”

“Clouds” says Bradley, and Connor shouts “no!!”

And so it continues… very tiring, I tell ya!

Laura put together a few questions today on Female2Female… and they look like my kind of questions for tonight… the simple kind

What colours would your wedding be/was your wedding? My dress was white, and then everything else was a mix of pastel colours… or at least everything was meant to be… because my bridesmaid, who despite being told about the colours, pitched up that morning wearing a bright red lace dress!

Scrubs or Greys Anatomy? Greys Anatomy without a doubt!

Do you pick your battles? I tend to pick them too carefully now, so I’m not confrontational enough!

Bar One or Whole Nut? Bar One

Where is your favourite holiday destination? I dunno, anywhere, as long as there’s sea and a beach to lie on, for at least part of the time

High School Musical or Cinderella? Cinderella

You are buying a new house what is the one thing the house must have? Bright and light rooms

Spring or autumn? Spring

Have you every skinny dipped before? Hell yeah!

Yoga or Kata Box? Yoga

If you had to study what would you study? Art or Photography



I know we went away last weekend for a night, but that’s not long enough… I’m so looking forward to getting through the next week.

On Good Friday night, we’re all going to Badplaas just for one night… I’m taking Sharon’s engagement photos there . The kids should have a blast with her son, and I’ve never been there… will be nice to see a new part of the country.

Then we’re going to Shelly Beach a few days after that ahhh bliss!! Just for 5 nights, but it’ll be just what we need, I think, to recharge our batteries.

But until then, have a monster, mammoth, marathon 8 hour shoot on Saturday (am doing photos for the Amazing Race for Charity), then a cheese and wine for a friend’s birthday, and I have family portraits on Sunday, and then I’m going with the kids to meet Madi and her kids on Sunday afternoon for a concert in a park… and then there’s work… and editing.

Good news though… I’m COMPLETELY up to date with my editing!! Everyone say Ye-eh-eh-eh-ah!!
I have NOTHING on my whiteboard in the To-Do section **whispers… apart from my shocking admin**

A colleague was talking about his plans for the evening, and mentioned that a friend of his had got him tickets to see some musician… and that the show starts at 11pm.

I couldn’t imagine anything worse, than milling around waiting for this dude to start playing at that godforsaken hour.  Yes, I do work on my editing until that time… but that sounds like such an aimless wait!

I’m so past that!  I might be a fuddy duddy because of that, but you know what, I’m ok with that!

Enjoy your weekend, whatever you may be doing 

Today was epic, and I am quite exhausted, but before I go to bed, here’s a rundown of what we did…

Newborn shoot at 8:30am so I had an early start and managed to cook egg breakfasts for the boys before I left home.  This was close to Fourways.

Then mad dash home to drop off my equipment and pile the kids in the car with toys to play with en-route.

Then mad dash across Jo’burg to meet up with Sharon, Sally, Louisa and Anglugs at the tweetup at Irene Country Lodge.  I had to make it so I could deliver Angel’s DVD of engagement photos to her!  What a cool place for the kids, and food was Ok too after fighting with the waitress who didn’t want to let me order from the menu because it was after midday! The kids got to fish in the dam, and feed the ducks and play on the grass and run around like lunatics for 2 hours!

Then bundle kids back in the car at 2pm to get to a party in Allen’s Nek that started at 2pm… spot the problem (not to mention the distance to get there)! En route, stop off at toy shop to buy birthday girl a pressie.  Finally get to said party at 3pm!!

Clamber Club entertained the kids, and OMW they had fun!  I didn’t actually take my camera but I was actually seeing all sorts of stunning shots of kids while I was watching… I’m quite sad that way!

I finally got home with the kids at 5pm!

Oh and then I spent the evening, once the kids went to sleep, upgrading my photoblog… and now it’s time for bed.

I got asked this morning when I spend time with the kids because I always seem on the go, and busy with all sorts of things if you look at my blog, and twitter and FB stream.  LOL, as you can see, apart from the photoshoots, my weekend is all about the kids!  Fear not, they’re getting attention too

I found this link this morning on Chris Brogan’s blog… and it’s absolutely brilliant! You have to do yourself a favour and take 5 minutes to watch it.
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I think I need to watch this often actually, just to remind myself of the message

OK, it’s Christmas Eve and the presents for everyone are wrapped… apart from the ones from Santa.

That begs a question?  What do you do to keep the magic of Father Christmas alive?

This is what we do…

1.  Clearly the angel at the top of the tree plays a big part

2.  We visit Father Christmas at Cresta, because he is the real deal.

3.  We have an advent calendar which helps out count down the nights.

4.  All Santas presents are wrapped with special wrapping paper and special gift cards are used so that they don’t look the same as the other gifts.

5.  Tonight, on Christmas Eve, it’s the most exciting bit though.

• We watch Santa’s progress across the world using Google Earth and Norad and we know it’s bed time when he started getting close to Africa.
• We put out cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer before the kids go to bed

6.  On Christmas morning, the kids will wake up to see crumbs in the plate, and chewed bits of carrot.  Flour footprints just in front of the fireplace and 2 filled stockings on the floor in front of the Santa gifts under the tree.

Oh I just love the magic!

Have a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones everyone!

Exmi tagged me the other day in a new meme where you post a photo of your desktop.

Mine is seriously not as interesting as everyone elses that I’ve seen in the last few days.  I regularly change the photo on my desktop.  Funny that, isn’t it?  LOL! I have enough photos to choose from Seriously though, I choose a new photo every time I clear my c:/ drive and save folders on the external hard drive… because the old one is then moved. It’s always a photo of one of the kids though.

Now I wanna see yours, so I’m tagging 5 people and if more people want to tag along, feel free to do so…

1.  Marilyn

2.  Alet2020

3.  Madi

4.  Robyn’s perch

5.  Huckdoll

I saw this on my Google Reader earlier on today, on justBcoz’s blog, but only watched it when I saw it again on iMod’s blog (because Youtube is blocked at work)

And OMW! It’s incredible! I wanna do that… in my dreams LOL!

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Lance’s reactions when he saw it were funny… he reckon’s it’s good but no longer sexy and he wouldn’t pay to see that! LOL! He thinks it’s now become just gymnastics on a pole
But OMW, he misses the point… what they can do on that pole is AMAZING! Wow!