Category: Blog

Amazing grace

Since my younger years, I’ve set very high, sometimes unrealistic, expectations for myself. While this has motivated me and made me determined to excel, I’ve very often fallen short and…
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Winning trio

My husband usually does most of the cooking when we host dinner parties. He discovered his love for kitchen experimenting a few years ago when he got hooked on a…
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Daddy’s girl

Our little girl is just five months old, but has her dad so tightly wrapped around her little finger, it’s quite scary. She hears his voice and a gorgeous smile…
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Celebrating the good

My two year old has been on a semi hunger strike for a while now and has been refusing to eat almost everything he used to love.  He’d nibble on…
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Raising the Barre

Group exercise is back in my life and I am loving it!  The revolutionary Barre Body has finally come to Joburg.  My gorgeous sister in law introduced me to ‘barre’…
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The power of time

From the moment my two year old opened his eyes on Friday morning, he was moaning and miserable. He was whining about everything that normally wouldn’t bother him at all.…
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Lessons from a Legend

My Gran, our Toet, would have been 88 years old today. It feels like yesterday that we sat on her couch on June afternoons, drinking Milo and watching Wimbledon, when…
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Hi with a smile

How many people do you walk past in a day?  For me, it can be more than 50 sometimes. How many of them do you greet, or even acknowledge?  I…
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I will trust you

Patience is not something that comes easily for me. I like to get things done – decide, organise, do.  No fussing around.  I often get frustrated when plans get delayed…
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This is the day

  I’m a morning person. I love being up when there is a slight chill in the air before the sun rises fully and the sound of the birds waking…
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