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Venice is a funny little city because even though it was absolutely breathtaking and we loved every second being there, it wasn’t my favourite of the cities that we visited.…

It’s obviously been a while since we packed our bags and left for Rome but it seems I have already forgotten SO much.  I looked at these pictures and I…

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…

Our kids seem to have caught the bug of trying new things all the time.  I’m pretty sure that we’re raising children with the wanderlust gene. Which is TOTES our…

I decided to throw Seth a surprise party.  Which is cool right?  Except for a few little problems: Seth is actually not that big on social gatherings so he’d either…

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…

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…

Cape Town has finally wisened up to the fact that it’s Summer. Granted, it may still be as windy as all heck, but at least it’s warm.  I’ll take a…

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 –…

No, no no.  Before you think I suddenly turned 34 (eeek), I’m finally getting around to telling you how we celebrated turning 30 and turning 4 on the same day.…

So, it’s been 10 days since I got the blood test results back and had to cut out dairy, grain and sugar. 10 looooooong ass days. I don’t want to…

Guys I’m sorry.  I have to confess something. I’ve been holding out on you. The thing is, I know some of you share my hearty dislike for regular cooking and…

For me, being a Mom of three kids means that I like to keep things simple. Yes, there’s a place for meals where you have to go and search for…

There we were, three evenings deep into our Come Dine With Me experience. So far we’d had it all – a Mexican explosion, a South African feast and an Asian…

Now that we had opened the gourmet can of Come Dine With Me worms, we were hooked. Where did all those fishing analogies come from? Anyway. The annoying thing about…

A couple of months ago we decided that we were going to do our own version of Come Dine With Me. To be fair, in the beginning we weren’t quite…

Apparently the older your kids get, the more you are supposed to “do” at a party. It’s no longer about just getting together to have fun, you actually have to…

In preparation for our Stellenbosch trip a couple of weekends ago, I did a little bit of research of where to go. My first point of call?  Facebook, Twitter and…

Things are getting back to normal around here. Although I’m not sure how one can really define normal after you lose someone that you love.  For me right now, normal…

Happy Monday! I know those two words don’t usually go in the same sentence, but they do when you get to announce that the #CTmeetup tickets are now officially on…

I am definitely no expert on the subject and we are still in the process of making the hard changes to ensuring that we adapt to the new lifestyle that…

I know that I’m not a food blogger, but having changed our eating so drastically has made me search far and wide for yummy recipes that we can enjoy as…

If you bumped into me last year at a party you would probably have knocked into me at the snack table.  I would probably have some kind of starch laden…