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Oh woah.  Hold up. If you’re here to read about me cheating on my husband, well, you’re in the wrong place.  No, no.  I’d never do that and if Seth…

You guys know already that I’m a total sucker for photographs right? I love how they capture a story of a moment in time and help you to remember that…

Have you ever felt like you were making killer progress with something and then all of a sudden you just plateau?  That was me last week.  And it was flipping…

I’ve been promising it for a while now, but it’s finally here!  Drum roll please… Kyla and Riya present their first review and giveaway! After earning their sweet little Crystal…

It’s been so interesting watching my children go from being tiny little babies, that only worried about their next mouthful of boob or the uncomfortable nappy, to actual human beings…

If you’re wondering, let me just quickly confirm that YES, we are still all about the grain, dairy and sugar free life.  I’m reaffirming this fact more for me than…

If you had to randomly find yourself alone with my husband, you’d probably end up asking him normal questions.  Like, “Is Cindy really so obsessed with trying to make special…

Hello there! It’s so lovely to meet you, I’m Cindy – Mom of 3, Wife and Business Woman (or that’s how they described me on The Weekend Edition anyway). That…

When we had kids we realised that the time of doing something out and about for New Years was behind us.  We made peace with the fact that we couldn’t…

Never before have I seen my kids so excited to go to bed! But this Christmas Eve, they were begging to get into bed at 5pm already!  Even though they’d…

Did you have the most amazing long weekend?  I hope that you did. We looked after our friends 3 kids for the weekend and it was awesome!  Everyone thought that…

If you live in Cape Town and have not heard about Uncle Paul’s (or their companions – Uncle Willy’s or The Noddy Party), may I ask you which rock you…

Been singing a whole bunch of Christmas carols recently?  Our church had a carol service yesterday afternoon and when Seth went to practise the music early on Saturday morning, Riya woke…

Elo, elo elo! Recovering well from the weekend?  Or like me are you most likely found huddled under your desk rocking from side to side?  What I wouldn’t give to…

The biggest change since my three week update has to be my attitude. Honestly, I was in a bad place.  There was an insatiable craving deep in my bones –…

It’s time to start a brand new series. Unfortunately it was time to say goodbye to Behind The Scenes Of Mixed Race families because the well of people willing to…

Sheesh guys.  I’m not going to lie.  This last week and a bit on the whole NO dairy, grain and sugar train has been HARD! I think the fact that…

Remember that time we found an egg in the garden and then it hatched with this guy in it? Of course you do.  And that’s just because you read it on this…

We had the perfect morning routine for months and then it all went to crap. I don’t know how it happened but suddenly instead of the Rule Of One applying,…

Do you know what’s scarier than going for a blood test? I’ll tell you – it’s getting the results of the blood test. I didn’t realise that I was nervous…

Over the weekend we celebrated Knox turning four. Originally we were going to have a Three Little Pigs Party, but he is just so freaking smitten with Paw Patrol right…

Yoh. Slap me sideways and call me Sally.  We had such a crazy busy week last week that if you had in fact called me Sally, I would have answered…

This weekend was a hard one. Not on the surface of course.  No, no.  The surface was full of parties and celebrations, meeting with friends and chatting away.  The surface…