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Why I Love My Stomach Rolls

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Last week at yoga, I was effectively forced to stare at pools of sweat gathering in my stomach rolls. The pose had me sitting down, folded over, head hanging into my lap, looking at my belly. I don’t what this yoga pose is actually called. Probably Folded Moon or Curled Up Squirrel or something like…
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Say Something

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I have big feet. Like, size 8 big feet. I seldom paint my toenails bright colours because there is just SO MUCH surface area. On a normal woman, pink toenails look sweet and summery. On me, it looks like I spilled paint on my feet. I call them Roadmaps.Because of the veins, you know? This,…
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How To Be A Better Parent All The Time At Everything

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Dear Parent, You’re probably thirty-something. You probably have a child or two under the age of four. You never knew you could feel SO MUCH LOVE, but you also never knew it was going to be THIS HARD. There are moments of sheer delight, but they’re often separated by long, mundane hours that range from…
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Rookie Mom: A Pretty Ordinary Day

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4.00am – “MAMA! I’m awake! Look, it’s a morning! What’s today?” We’ll never go out of style – T.S Stumbling out of bed, I switch on the kettle. One bottle of rooibos tea with honey, one bottle of formula, one cup of green tea. The boys and I lie on the couch sipping on our…
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Rookie Mom: How to Partner with Teachers

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First days. If you live in South Africa, this week your Facebook feed has been filled with pictures of kids on their first day of school. If you’re like me, you’ve been sending messages back and forth about kids who are fine, mothers who are not, hints of tears and declarations of wine. When I imagine having…
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2015 – Happy New Year or Crappy New Year?

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Well, hello 2015. Like most things in life, I’m a little behind the curve. I had to Google “bae”. I found out what Tinder was like, 2 weeks ago. And my first blog of the new year is on 17 January. Welcome to my organised, on-top-of-things life. This is Luke eating a nutritious snack at an…
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Well, hello.

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I see you’re searching for something to do with your kids this weekend. For an outing. Maybe for your sanity.  You’ve come to the right place.Over a decade ago, this blog was where I shared the messy, beautiful journey of losing myself in motherhood. This was us when I wrote this blog: Cos having small kids…
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My Extremely Helpful Guide to Christmas Shopping

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This is me trying to choose a present for someone. Notice the dark rings under my eyes. Notice the worry on my brow. I’m actually feeling stressed out just writing this. Everyone is always saying, “I love Christmas shopping! I love queues! I love credit card debt!” Not me. I don’t like any of those…
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What To Do When Life Is Hard

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It sucks, but it’s true. Today, I got a message from a special friend of mine overseas whose three year old has just spent two days in hospital. Her little girl has some as yet undiagnosed cardiac and respiratory problem. The day before, I got an email from another close friend who found a lump. We’re…
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How To Give A Compliment

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Have you ever been on the way to visit someone who has really great hair, and on the way there you realise you didn’t shower that day and forgot to put your hair up and now you were on your way to visit someone with really great hair? I have. It happened last weekend when…
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