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Live, Love, Laugh: A Word For Each Year
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A Word For Each Year. A Word For Each Year. Every year, a group of friends share their “word” for the coming year. A word that inspires us, that we can strive to, and lets us do some soul-searching of what we want. In 2010 my word. This has really been a year of counting my blessings. I am blessed with my loving, awesome husband. I am blessed with my amazing family. I am blessed with a baby girl growing inside me. I am blessed to live where I live. I am blessed with my friendly, wacky crazy doggy. I beli...
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Live, Love, Laugh: The things I want my daughters to remember
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A Word For Each Year. Monday, July 20, 2015. The things I want my daughters to remember. It happens sometimes, when I'm doing something, like muttering " f#ckit. When I'm frustrated, saying " aaaaargh. Under my breath when I'm impatient, pouring a glass of wine at the end of the day, or reaching for another [and another] piece of chocolate, that I hear a voice inside my head saying, "they're watching, they're listening, they're remembering.". All the millions of hugs and kisses they get every day. How I ...
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Live, Love, Laugh: We made Moon Sand!
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A Word For Each Year. Monday, February 11, 2013. We made Moon Sand! This weekend we had some fun making moon sand. I got the idea from my friend Debs. And looked around on the internet for recipes, and came across two variants, of which Debs did the second one - which turned out to be the better one of the two! 4 cups play sand. 2 cups corn starch (I used Maizena). 8 cups of flour. 1 cup of oil (preferably baby oil, but I used sunflower oil). In it to make it sparkle. :-). Labels: Arts and crafts. Februa...
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Live, Love, Laugh: Ella's 15 month update!
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A Word For Each Year. Friday, July 24, 2015. Ella's 15 month update! 1) How old today? Ella-Bella-Bytjie turned 15 months yesterday! 2) New milestones/ talents/ achievements? She isn't walking yet. Sure taking her sweet time with this! She walks nicely holding on to me with one hand though - she just needs the self-confidence to let go! 3) Favourite toys and favourite things to do? Her dudu bunny is her absolute favourite thing in the world. She hugs it so tight! We all enjoy g. Mostly when she's cutting...
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Live, Love, Laugh: A teething, clingy toddler stage...
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A Word For Each Year. Wednesday, August 12, 2015. A teething, clingy toddler stage. I want to blog about these difficult times too - things aren't always all smiles and fun and happy moments. and these hard times form part of the memories, and I know that it becomes a blurred memory in time, but being right in the middle of it, man, it's tough! I did a blog post about Ella's sleep here,. When she was almost a year old. Now, at 15.5 months, it is still very much hit and miss! I do my best to just go with ...
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Live, Love, Laugh: Mia's winter holiday fun!
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A Word For Each Year. Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Mia's winter holiday fun! School started again yesterday. Half of me is sad, two weeks went by so quickly - but the other half of me is glad to get back into routine again. We had a fun-filled winter holiday, for sure! I really made an effort that each day, there was some kind of special activity. Whether it be something big like going to the movies or to the Spur for a meal, or just something at home like making play-dough or taking her to my salon. Theyre n...
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Live, Love, Laugh: My Pregnancy
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A Word For Each Year. SHE MUST KNOW THAT SHE IS SO LOVED. With a little more than three months to go before I become a mommy, I’ve been contemplating motherhood, and really been thinking about what is important to me. Qualities and traits that I want to teach my baby girl. Here is a summary. although I know this is just the tip of the iceberg! What I’ve Loved About Being Pregnant:. Seeing the little bean shaped miracle, and hearing the racing heartbeat for the first time, at 8 weeks. Seeing my tummy move...
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Live, Love, Laugh: Purple hair!
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A Word For Each Year. Monday, July 13, 2015. I coloured my hair purple! Well, not completely. ;-). Just some purple highlights together with blonde highlights. I'm super pleased with it! I did lots of research, looking for inspiration, and at first I really liked a purple ombre effect, but my hairdresser advised against doing that, due to the highlights already in my hair and that it would come out too many different shades of purple. My hair stylist is Leanne Cursons. Whoop whoop purple hair! July 14, 2...
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Live, Love, Laugh: Mia's Birth Story
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A Word For Each Year. September 2010, 16h00. Today I’m 38w3d pregnant, and I’ve just been for a check-up at the gynea. She’s decided that due to high blood pressure, labour needs to be induced and it’s time for baby girl to arrive. I have to book in at the hospital tonight at 10pm and labour will be induced at midnight. Wow! For days I’ve been waiting for signs showing that labour is imminent – now I know it’s happening tonight! We left for the hospital just after 10pm, and in the car, Wyn played the two...
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Live, Love, Laugh: My healthy lifestyle plan!
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A Word For Each Year. Monday, May 25, 2015. My healthy lifestyle plan! Oh this forever journey of trying to lose weight. But then. I have a self-sabotaging phase, where I stop exercising, eat chocolate slabs daily, and just feel uninspired and blagh. And then this phase tends to last the longest of all 3. Which, obviously, is not good! I am still 2kg away from getting to pre-pregnancy weight, and then after that I would love to lose another 5kg. It suits my OCD tendencies. ;-). Eat as clean as possible!
