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{Printable of the month} monthly and weekly goals form

Friends, it looks like the techno monster really didn’t want you to get this week’s printable. I created the form, was busy saving the various versions, and got that horrible “not responding” circle in Word. I rebooted expecting to open Word and find the “last worked on version” but nothing…. so I had to just […]

{Stationery} My new favourite pens

I’m that person who oohs and ahhs about beautiful and yummy stationery. I say that so you’ll forgive the gushing. I’ve mentioned on the blog before how much I love my gel pens. Until January this year, I was a big fan of Pilot G-2 0.7 mm pens. Well, to be honest, I still am, […]

{Intentional living} Photo night

Photo Night is one of my favourite nights of the month. Aside from Goals Night which I will talk about next week. (you can now see I’m very creative with naming things!) It’s the night I “tie up” all my photo-taking and memory-making activities for the previous month. In other words, it’s hugely satisfying for […]

big changes around these parts

Happy May! And if you’re South African, happy Voting Day Yes, today we all set off for the polling stations to go cast our votes. At the last “proper elections” I was pregnant with the babies … and then a few years later we had some other elections and I had babies in a […]

May is the new January

So obviously I’ve had a big change (leaving my full-time job) but it seems I’m not the only one looking for changes in May. I follow a lady on Instagram (Lara Casey) – I dearly love her heart in a non-stalker way – who’s been writing a book so has been out of the social […]

May updates and holidays

1. Dion and I celebrated our 19-year wedding anniversary last week and, as we’ve done for many, many years (except last year), we went away with the kids for a few days to an exceptionally beautiful part of the country, the Drakensberg. (we’d never been before!) 2. I learnt some interesting things about myself while […]

Decluttering kids’ toys

I like to involve my kids in the decluttering of their toys and I must say, mostly it works really well because they understand the things I tell them most. There is only so much space Other kids could use these toys and enjoy them One in, one out (except I say, let’s declutter ALLLLLL […]

Bucket lists and concerts

Guess what we’re doing tonight? We’re going to see Air Supply in concert! This has been the year of the concert. So far this year we’ve seen: Bryan Adams Bruce Springsteen UB40 and tonight Air Supply. They were out in South Africa a few years ago and Dion wasn’t keen on seeing them (soppy love […]

Update on the sleep app I use

About six weeks ago, I posted about a sleep app I use. Since people don’t seem to like to comment, I got emails asking me quite a few questions and this great comment from Rachel so I decided to mush it all up into one post. How much did my app cost? $0,99 (Sleep Time) […]

Still travelling too heavy?

Seriously, one of my goals in life is to be that person who travels so light they use everything they brought with them – sometimes even more than once to maximise each item. Well, I’m not there yet but I get better every trip And actually, I went on two work trips recently and I […]