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Here’s What You Should Have In Your Travel First Aid Kit

August 18, 2017

Partnered with 1st for Women Hey guys, I’m partnering with 1st for Women over the next couple of weeks to bring you a series of articles on how to be prepared for anything (especially when you have kids). I’m hoping to provide you with valuable tips that will be helpful to your lives. The tagline is “Always ready, just in case” which is something I can identify with as you will see below. Travelling with kids is the worst. Whether you’re just going away for the ...

Parenting, Reviews

11 Self-care Tips for Moms – Free Printable Checklist

August 3, 2017

I’ve been seeing this idea floating around the internet for a while now. Self-care. What the heck is that even? Something that I honestly feel like I don’t have time for to be perfectly honest. Since becoming a mom, my time is rarely my own. So I don’t have time for ...

Ramblings

Winter Survival Guide!

July 19, 2017

Well, would you look at that! There’s been a bit of a makeover in these here parts! The black and white was getting me a bit down especially since like the Starks have been promising for years now, winter has come. So the darkness (both outside and on the blog) was just a bit much for my ...

Ramblings

Currently…

July 7, 2017

So I made a promise to myself that I was going to post every Friday but here I am on a Thursday night with nothing ready to be published because LIFE y’all! So I thought I’d catch you up on all the life stuff in another edition of Currently! Doing Well, I’m currently sat here ...

Parenting

Celebrating The Potato’s very first Eid

June 27, 2017

Guuuuuys, I’ve been a terrible blogger. I’m just not finding the time to write. I’m currently stuck in bed between a sick Munchkin and being held hostage under a sleeping Potato (yes, you can safely assume I’m writing this on my phone – THANKS TECHNOLOGY!). I ...

Ramblings

That time my gallbladder almost killed me

June 5, 2017

I’m probably slightly exaggerating here but last Thursday night it honestly felt as if my gallbladder was trying to straight up murder me! You see, apparently I’m an old person now and have gallstones. And they’ve been keeping me up about once or twice a week since ...

Parenting

What’s in The Munchkin’s Ramadaan Box

May 25, 2017

When we were kids the month of Ramadaan was always met with a certain sense of sadness. No TV and we couldn’t eat all day. We just couldn’t understand how adults would get excited for this month? Why even? As a teenager I would have to sort out my video tapes and set the timer ...

Reviews

The Play On Me table makes car rides fun again

May 15, 2017

A few weeks before Easter we were sent the Play On Me table to review. The Munchkin was beyond excited for his table. He wanted to use it immediately and damn my plans to only test it out on our Easter weekend road trip. So off we went to Veldriff on Easter Weekend, so we could give it a real ...

Parenting

10 Ways I’m Rocking Motherhood

May 5, 2017

I’ve seen this tag floating around the SA mommy blog scene and I was hoping against all hope that I wouldn’t get tagged because right now I don’t feel like I’m rocking this motherhood thing at all. But it seems Hayley from Hayley’s Joys seems to believe I am ...