“If they don’t let us go home tomorrow, I’m seriously gonna scream!” Kiara is grinning as she says it, but it’s a true word spoken in...

I always seem to write while watching children sleep. Today, Ty is cuddled with me in the hospital armchair and Kiara is sleeping in her...

We smile and nod and don’t breathe a word to sway the doctor’s opinion as he ‘Um’s’ and ‘Ah’s’ over whether to release Kiara today. We...

While Richard is watching Kiara sleep this afternoon, I am lying on our bedroom carpet tickling my six-year-old’s back. He told granny...

I always wanted to find a man who would walk five hundred miles and five hundred more because he wanted to be the man who walked five...

I let my daughter go. I let her go day after day. Right from the first time they wheeled her into surgery, I turned around and walked out...

A shepherd should pay close attention to the faces of his flock And hold close to his heart the condition of those he cares for....

When we were kids we used to have this clever way of holding hands to make a swing to carry each other around. We’d link arms in some...

Richard and I had our first argument five days after the accident. We had already agreed on so much in those first few days: whether we...

“Mommy, when can I wear my pointe shoes? I dreamt about them last night.” Kiara greets me this morning with her dreams of the future...

Five days before the accident, our family was gifted a photo shoot. We had been wanting to have one for years, but you know how it goes -...

Can you believe tomorrow is Christmas?! One more sleep and counting! (I can’t help smiling as I’m writing this. Christmas never gets old,...

On 24 December at 23:50, while Kiara was in theatre, my sister, Deb, sent me this message: This sickness will not end in death. It will...

Medicine and miracles have danced a duet for centuries, taking turns at having the lead. Stories of miracles and those needing miracles...

“Kiara, you’re the leading news story on News24 this morning. People are amazed at what God has done for you. Even the president might...

January waits for no woman! Time is flying, days are busy, I’m trying to keep up. Holidays are over - the boys have cricket trials... do...

Today is Sunday. I’m a pastor. And I love Sunday’s. I love Sunday’s because it’s the day when we all get together. And they’re always...

The sound of princess laughter has filled the ICU, drowning out the sighs. Kiara’s friends have brought a simple playdough game and they...

The song going around and around in my brain is “I would walk five hundred miles and I would walk five hundred more, just to be the *mom*...

This morning I am awoken by the sound of my own sobbing. I dreamed they took my baby girl away. I wake fighting. I am traumatised, not by...