everyONEcounts

Its Freedom Day in SA today so loads of people took yesterday off and enjoyed a long weekend. As Hermann is off to Rotters for work, we girls have been making the most of Ushaka. We went to the aquarium yesterday, and Wet N Wild today. We've just been having a brilliant couple of days, which is why I wanted to share with you the following link:

www.everyonecounts.co.za

Its heartbreaking to know that every 48 hours 2 babies are abandoned in KZN alone - usually in dustbins or toilets. We can't all adopt a baby, but we can (and did) buy a fantastic piece of South African art for a good cause.

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
Hellen Keller

Fag Art

Hermann was not amused when he saw how someone had chosen to decorate the euphorbia just outside our front door......

Hlalanathi

OK - 2 weekends camping with only 3 days in-between to get all the washing done is officially too short!! Luckily, we now have this camping lark sussed and booked a campsite with our own little toilet and kitchen rondavel. Makes life a heck of a lot easier and even provides some well deserved shade around lunchtimes. We headed up to the Berg early on Friday, even managing to leave at 7am as planned (minor miracle). We had a quick stop for second breakfast so that I could feed Solveig but made it to Hlalanathi by 11am. The campsite had fantastic views of the Amphitheathre (Royal Natal National Park) and lots of rock dassies running around. Brenda, Holger and kids were sharing our campsite and we had a braai on Friday evening. Me & BB had an early night while the boys all went to meet up in the pub. Saturday was spent having breakfast up at Mark & Jan's chalet, then playing in the park, swimming in the river and generally chilling out as much as you can do whilst camping with small people. Kate even found a chameleon which wandered around our campsite until he tried to climb up the table and we relocated him to some bushes. Anya was fascinated when he changed colour from green to brown while climbing a tree. Saturday night was Mark's 40th birthday bash. Jan and her Mum had done a fantastic job on the catering and all we had to do was sit back and enjoy ourselves...well...that was the plan. Anya was totally excited about playing with Kate & Jess but we still had to keep a permanent eye on her. Solveig decided that the party was far too noisy so cried all night and I ended up taking the kids back to the tent at 9pm. Let's face it - I was finished too!! Sunday was the long drive back to Durbs, and Anya whinged most of the way, topping it off by finally vomiting all over me as I heroically hung over the front seat wielding a bath towel stashed for such emergencies. The poor babe had managed to hang on most of the way home, and true to form, chucked up 15 mins from home. The poor babe pretty much hasn't stopped puking since we got home, hence the slight delay in updating the blog from last weekend. This weekend we are doing NOTHING. A day trip to Greytown to visit Oma & Opa was all I would agree to! Happy Easter everyone!