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Monthly Archives: May 2014
There Is Hope For Your Marriage
12-43pm With the divorce rate up at 50% both inside the church and out, many couples feel they go into marriage with an automatically built in escape route. “If it doesn’t work,” they say, “we’ll just get divorced.” Gone are … Continue reading
Finding Significance
10-20am Significance. Just one word. And a word that I haven’t thought about too much until recently. In years gone by, I may have interpreted ‘significance’ as the most important achievement in my life. What makes me significant? What is … Continue reading
Something Fishy…
12-41pm It’s my plan to be a bit more intentional with my cooking! Instead of poor Mike coming home to an ‘assembled’ meal made up of ready cooked (pretty dry and tasteless) chicken and salad, I’m actually getting a little … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, Fish recipe, God never changes, LCHF - what to eat, Low carb crumbed fish
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Feelings of Sadness…
2pm Feelings of sadness come over all of us from time to time. It’s completely normal to feel a tad melancholy. I know I sometimes find myself thinking, “I don’t know what’s wrong with myself, I’m just feeling out of … Continue reading
Thank you Mike for the Part YOU Played in Making Me a Mom!
7-23am An early blog today. When we woke up this morning, Mike wished me Happy Mother’s Day. And I, for the first time since I celebrated my first Mother’s Day 26 years ago, said something to him that I’d never … Continue reading
It Sounds Ridiculous – “Eating Fat is Good For You”
10-34am Yesterday, someone put a link on Facebook to the Express Newspaper in the UK. It was written and published in October last year. It’s good to keep a record of these articles. I copied the whole thing and plonked … Continue reading
Driving Off a Cliff – My Menopause Journey
1-49pm The moral of today’s blog is to know yourself! I remember about 6 years ago, I went through an emotional “dip”. I was driving home from work one day and I found myself thinking how easy it would be … Continue reading
Well Done Tim Noakes!
1-25pm The other day I was in the supermarket and I couldn’t help but buy Pick n Pay’s latest May edition of Fresh Living… I paged through it as I walked out the shop, reading this paragraph as I went…. … Continue reading
Stalking my Husband!
12-51 Election Day 2014 – the national elections so this is the big one, where we vote for both provincial and national leaders. I did the show early and had lots of feedback from around Cape Town as to how … Continue reading
I Wore Pink…
12-28pm It’s been a busy weekend, so today has been wonderfully relaxing. Yesterday morning, I went to The Pink Day with Cat-a-list Events Cathi Mole! She asked me a few questions but before she did, I proved that I had … Continue reading
The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me On Air
1-53pm Sometimes something completely unexpected happens that stays with you for the rest of your life. What happened on this day 4 years ago is one of those things. It was a regular Thursday morning and the Rise and Shine … Continue reading
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Old South African Money
2-28pm The main aim of today was to move 3 tonnes of books out of my house! Yes! My book-buying brother has accumulated (more than) 3 tonnes of books and as I started writing the blog the container was outside … Continue reading