Snapshot Saturday - the green version.. and a perfect day

Okay, this weekly thing is not doing it for me!

But since I committed before, let's do this.

I think we might have to do it once a month or so, that's if anyone is interested (Mrs FF? Mandy?)

okay, I love this one - my favourite apples against my favourite blue cupboard :)

Robyn, this was taken at Liam's party

ex-work campus!!!!

Which is your favourite?

Today we went to gym and then I had a last-minute friend date. It was SOOO nice. She does that class with me and asked me for a tea months ago but I was doing Spanish exams and then she was away for a month, and so on.

She whatsapped me to check if I'd be available this morning, and I was, so we had tea and a muffin after class and chatted non-stop for 100 minutes! I even got into trouble with Club V for leaving the kids longer than an hour!

However, FREE babysitting (kind-of... I pay R79 for the first child and R70 for the second every month... we go every week. Practically free!) so we're going to be doing it regularly :)

Then I attacked that cottage because apparently no-one in this house does a thing unless I say so.... grrr.... and I stuck post-its on the wall so things can be packed back in their place. If it was a remotely clean area, I'd take pics and show you ... but it's really not. It is organised though.

And then I napped for about 2 hours after getting stuck into a new book (Sophie Kinsella). Just for kicks when I woke, I organised the kids' clothes to make way for the 27 - 29 degree weather we're having this week. This is the first organising session ... I'll do another one in about 4 weeks when it's properly warm.

This is a perfect day for me - lots of productivity, lots of relaxing and some socialising :)

What did you get up to today?

Snapshot Saturday - Blue!

Heads-up - my bandwidth is out for the month (this post might not publish) and I'm too cheap to pay exorbitant rates for a bandwidth buster. So there'll probably be no post tomorrow.

Have a good weekend!

I can't resist this car!

isn't my friend's hair gorgeous?!

Which is your favourite blue pic?

{Snapshot Saturday} Painting the town red

I really want to hear about the weird things South Africans say so go ahead!

PS Braai is an Afrikaans word which is maybe why it's weird to hear :)

Also, thanks for all the lovely comments on the crazy busy post! Love that you could all relate to the word pic!

Without further ado, here we go - red Saturday Snapshots.

Next week - BLUE and then GREEN for the first week of Spring.

as I walked out of the study with my camera, I saw all this red - yes! Birthday flowers from my sister.

pic by Kendra :)

Connor: Look, Mummy! A red car. I was quite impressed that I managed to whiz around quickly, compose and shoot!

I may have a thing with street signs - I have another 5 I could have showed you...

why indeed?!

my gorgeous red leather bag

seen in Newtown

Which is your favourite?

PS we went to see Jersey Boys today - LOVED it. I also loved the show - different kinds of love!

Surprise! Snapshot Saturday - yellow!

So Mrs FF asked (in a comment? in an email? in an SMS?) me when I was going to do Snapshot Saturday again.

I think I said something flippant like "never... since I was the only one doing it, it felt like". She did tell me that she also used to participate, and now that I'm thinking a bit more clearly, I think Mandy also played along.

Anyway, I'm not saying I'm bringing it back proper but I was editing these pics (the last from July - yay, I can now move onto my birthday and Ballito!) and realised that Connor and I took a YELLOW photo walk.

A bit about the colours. The kids and I have taken a blue and pink photo walk too (with the iphone), and after this yellow one, a pattern one too (also with the iphone) because of #augustbreak2014 and it is SUCH fun.

So nice to challenge yourself creatively to LOOK for different things and not take the same old boring photos.

It's also easier to take quicker walks with the iphone and look for a particular prompt.

Anyway, these pics were taken on D's birthday very late in the afternoon (we left at 4:56 and were back at 5:18). Connor makes me live up to my promises of walking even when I'm feeling a bit lazy and I love it. Once I'm up and out the gate, I'm fine and I love the alone time with him, and of course, the photography.

I like this one because I pushed my lens through a fence to take this one :)

does this count as yellow? Connor said no!

he told me on Friday he doesn't like to do anything specific with me; just BEING with me is nice (my quality time child)

So post some yellow photos and link to me or comment so I'll find them. And next week, let's do red. I've been craving a red photo walk so it will get me off my butt and make me do some walking this week.

Will you join me next week?

PS from the times above, you can see we don't make a huge thing of it. For one, it's freezing (see my blue lips?) and two, I'm a big believer in anything is better than nothing.

{Snapshot Saturday} Daddy love

I call this her Titanic pose

Favourite photo?