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3 Kids, 2 Dogs and 1 Old House

Say Hello To Our Little Herb Garden

WIN A Rookie USA Voucher for R2500

Our DIY Harry Potter Party

CURRENTLY – We’re Home, Now What?

Optimus Goes Rouge In Roma, Lesotho

Add Malealea To Your Lesotho Bucket List

Hello Lesotho! Our First Border Crossing And Stay In Mohales Hoek

Lady Grey – A Night In The Middle Of Nowhere

Things I Have Learned Since Leaving The City And Making A Van My Home

Maclear – A Farm Stop On The Way To Lesotho

Coffee Bay – A Cultural Tour

Life In The Van – Captured By Zorann Elizabeth #Vanlife

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    *WIN* The Cutest MooMoo Kids Onsies To Keep Your Littles Warm This Winter

    1 June 2015
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  • Behind The Scenes Of A Mixed Race Family – Janine Roberts

    29 May 2015

    In case you’ve missed it, we’ve started a new series that will pop up here on the blog every Friday. Recently I have been inundated with content about racism in…

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  • 27 Things I’ve Learnt While Parenting Three Small People

    28 May 2015

    Do you know when I knew the MOST about parenting? Before I was a parent. How easy it is to be an onlooker and declare without a shadow of doubt…

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  • We All Have That Thing

    27 May 2015
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  • Feeling The Pinch

    26 May 2015

    This is basically a sponsored post, seeing as I co-own Incompass I know it’s not really best practice to be telling you about my contraceptive methods, but here I go…

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  • Here I Go Again

    25 May 2015

    Walking through the winding corridors felt a bit like willingly walking into quick sand.  Sign after sign, urging me to go further in, around more corners, down long passages, past…

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  • Behind The Scenes Of A Mixed Race Family – Lauren Manuel

    22 May 2015
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  • The First Of Our Awkward Conversations – How Babies Are Born

    21 May 2015

    Sitting around the dinner table last night, the usual banter and chatter turned from trying to pry information from the kids about their day (like getting a stone to bleed…

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  • There's More To "RSV" Than You Thought

    20 May 2015

    It’s been almost two years since Knox was admitted to hospital for RSV. What is RSV?  Well, it’s full name is Respiratory Syncytial Virus (although I like to refer to it…

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  • How To Survive Having More Than One Child

    19 May 2015
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  • On The Passing Of A Parent – One Year On

    18 May 2015

    Death is a funny thing isn’t it. You know it’s basically inevitable, yet we fear it so much. I often watch period dramas or Vikings or Game of Thrones and…

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  • Behind The Scenes Of A Mixed Race Family – Claire Soobramoney

    15 May 2015

    In case you’ve missed it, we’ve started a new series that will pop up here on the blog every Friday. Recently I have been inundated with content about racism in…

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  • *WIN* A #CTMeetUp Goodie Bag

    14 May 2015
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  • The #CTMeetUp

    13 May 2015

    Oh my goodness.  Oh my goodness.  What a day. After months of planning, prepping and a little bit of stressing, everything came together to culminate in a wonderful event on…

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  • Mother's Day – It Was A Good One

    12 May 2015

    I’ve just celebrated my 5th Mother’s Day as a mother.  I’d be lying if didn’t say it was kind of surreal. Mother’s Day can be hard on some.  Those that…

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  • Behind The Scenes Of A Mixed Religion Family – Jo Borril

    8 May 2015
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  • Currently

    7 May 2015

      Yo yo yo.  Whaaaasuuuup? Things have been a bit quiet around here (sort of) and I’m not apologising for it, more just acknowledging that it’s OK not to over…

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  • Who You Will Be Rubbing Shoulders With At The #CTMeetUp

    6 May 2015

    Oh hello there! It’s ALMOST time for the #CTMeetUp and I know what you’re thinking.  How the heck did it roll around so fast?!  I couldn’t agree more.  Instead of leaving…

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  • Behind The Scenes Of A Mixed Race Family – Cassey Toi

    1 May 2015
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  • Winter Is Coming

    30 April 2015

    Winter Is Coming! Can you tell that we started watching Game Of Thrones a couple of weeks back?  I just can’t help but repeat this phrase over and over, because,…

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  • Uncluttered House, Uncluttered Mind…

    29 April 2015

    Have you ever watched Hoarders – Buried Alive? No?  Well let me quickly debrief you. Basically people accumulate so much crap that they eventually they suffer a slow death underneath…

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  • The One Where I Get Too Emo About My Face

    28 April 2015
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  • Behind The Scenes Of A Mixed Race Family – Tami Magnin

    24 April 2015

    In case you’ve missed it, we’ve started a new series that will pop up here on the blog every Friday. Recently I have been inundated with content about racism in…

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  • Our First Friend Sleepover

    23 April 2015

    “I, Cindy Alfino, being of sound mind and body” decided to invite two of the kids friends over for a sleep over.  Where inevitably I would no longer be in…

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  • Getting Kids To Brush Their Teeth – Plus A Chance To *WIN* A Philips Sonicare Tooth Brush For Kids

    22 April 2015
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  • That Time We Went To Gelukkie In Paternoster WITHOUT Our Kids

    21 April 2015

    Oh my goodness. You know when you enter a competition and then forget about it because the chance that YOU would be chosen is like the one time you tried…

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  • For Your Blog Reading Pleasure – Get To Know Salomé From Yellow Lab

    20 April 2015

    There are so many things that I love about the internet, but what sits firmly in my top 10 is that it’s so easy to connect with new people. This…

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  • Behind The Scenes Of A Mixed Race Family – Melanie Blignaut

    17 April 2015
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  • My Mother's Day Gift Ideas

    16 April 2015

    It’s the time of the year where we sit down and try and wrack our brains for ideas of what to buy for the women in our lives that have…

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  • 50 Things That Make Me Happy

    15 April 2015

    This morning when I came into work I found out that someone had been HIJACKED AT GUN POINT in the secure, off street parkade that I park in every single…

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  • Little Bunnies Got A Lot Of Love

    14 April 2015
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  • Behind The Scenes Of A Mixed Race Family – The Quickfalls

    10 April 2015

    In case you’ve missed it, we’ve started a new series that will pop up here on the blog every Friday. Recently I have been inundated with content about racism in…

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  • A Styled Easter Photoshoot

    7 April 2015

    I have been dying to get my hands on these images ever since we spent a morning capturing them a few weeks ago. We ventured out into Wynberg park very…

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  • Let's Talk About Managing A Woman's Expectations – Guys This Ones For You.

    6 April 2015
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  • Behinds The Scenes Of A Mixed Race Family – Stephanie Knapp

    3 April 2015

    Good Friday seems like a good day to start a new series.  It just feels right.  So that’s exactly what I’m going to do. Recently I have been inundated with…

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  • Emotionally Spent

    2 April 2015

    The other night we were getting into bed and Seth casually asked, “Are you pregnant?” Now, normally under these circumstances a variety of thoughts will most likely pop into your…

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After living a very normal suburban life we packed up everything to live in a VW van for a year as a family of 5. Now that we have traveled our beautiful country we are back to normal but trying to remember what it was like to live with less, spend time in nature and build on our family bonds. Join us on the journey.

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