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Giveaway Time!!! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Remember me raving about the 100% durum wheat Pasta that cooks in 2-minutes? I love it because it is not deep-fried but air-dried and tastes amazing…. Sound familiar? If not, check my stories wheel – it has been all the rage in my house lately! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You may recall my current campaign recipe entry closing date for the Pasta Grande Easy Pasta Meals Giveaway was the 20th March. Having seen all your delicious suggestions, it was hard to choose but I found my way to selecting just TWO of my favourite top recipes entered and have created them both at home now. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I posted recipe 1 brought to you by @thabisacookingaddiction on 5 April and the second recipe I chose and am sharing with you today is brought to you by the lovely @cookingwithsamke. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This delicious recipe idea for the Easy Pasta Meals by Pasta Grande included locally influenced flavours of cheese, greens and butter chicken! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I would now like to encourage all my viewers to enter to stand a chance to win 1 of 3 Pasta Grande hampers. All you have to do is: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 1. Decide which recipe you like best – see my story poll & vote (saved to “Pasta Grande” Highlight reel on my profile). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 2. Share this post to your stories with #EasyGrande and tag a friend who should also vote ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 3. Follow @pastagrande_za Of the two recipe’s I share with you, only the recipe that receives the most votes in the poll by all of you will determine the final winner of the big prize, the PASTA GRANDE EASY PASTA MEALS MICROWAVE OVEN! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Closing date to enter this giveaway is 19 April 2020. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Can’t wait to see if you win? The product is available at all Spar shops in the Western Cape; grab yours today! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #sponsoredad #EasyGrande #2minGrande
What’s Important Now? 🧐 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ As the days blend and my identity fades, I reach for the calm in the storm. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Who am I? What is my purpose? What is important right NOW? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I pondered this last night in my @greatnessjournal and more into today. Today was harder than all the other days so far. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today my son cried, and then I cried too. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today, we ate pizza and then the Easter chocolate and put on the TV. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today I prayed. I pondered and then, eventually, I remembered my greatest purpose. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ An excerpt from my thoughts as I wandered in to the depths of this confusion... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "I don't know what day of lock-down it is. But I do know this. I love being more slow and centered with my kids. In embracing this innate purpose, just to be still with them, I am reminded: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ All that I am and all that I have done is for them. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I am but the sun, the water, the nutrients to their roots. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I am but the flowers they will blossom from the nourishment of my love. And that is the greatest shade of love I can ever leave behind - the colors of all that they bloom. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I am." ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And in remembering this purpose I found some peace. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” Dr. John Trainer ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you're home and losing your mind a little like me, be gentle to yourself. Being still, loving them, laughing with them, is the greatest food for their soul. The rest can all wait. If you’re a believer, I hope this can comfort you as it has comforted me “let go and let God”. 🙏🏻 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #motherhood #motheringincovid19 #begentle #learningaswego #momschool #homeschool #honestponderings #learningbyliving #notjustamom #onedayatatime #covid_19 #coronavirus #lockdown
Giveaway Time!!! Remember me raving about the 100% durum wheat Pasta that cooks in 2-minutes? I love it because it is not deep-fried but air-dried and tastes amazing…. Sound familiar? If not, check my stories wheel – it has been all the rage in my house lately! You may recall my current campaign recipe entry closing date for the Pasta Grande Easy Pasta Meals Giveaway was the 20th March. Having seen all your delicious suggestions, it was hard to choose but I found my way to selecting just TWO of my favorite top recipes entered and have created them both at home now. I will post recipe 1 today and the second one on Thursday 9 April. This first South African Inspired recipe is all thanks to @thabisacookingaddiction. I LOVED the sound of her recipe idea for the Easy Pasta Meals by Pasta Grande which included locally influenced flavours of ingredients of Boerewors and cabbage - delish! Swipe to see how I made it. I would now like to encourage all my viewers to enter to stand a chance to win 1 of 3 Pasta Grande hampers. All you have to do is: 1. Decide which recipe you like best (so you can only enter after you see recipe number 2 which I will share later this week 😉). You will vote in my story poll. 2. Share this post to your stories and #EasyGrande and tag a friend 3. Follow @pastagrande_za Of the two recipe’s I share with you, only the recipe that received the most votes in the poll by all of you will determine the final winner of the big price, the PASTA GRANDE EASY PASTA MEALS MICROWAVE OVEN! Closing date to enter this giveaway is 19 April 2020. Can’t wait to see if you win? The product is available at all Spar shops in the Western Cape; grab yours today! #sponsoredad #EasyGrande #2mingrande
A reminder for anyone who needs it 🙏🏻 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Like many, I’m new to this “home all day with the kids” thing. Needless to say, I’m learning as I go. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’m relieved to say in all honesty that I’m giving myself grace and taking one day at a time. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’m treating myself the way I teach my kids to treat themselves, that “practice makes progress”. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Perfection is an illusion as the journey to reach it is a painful, lonely and bitter one. And we never get there; the bar keeps getting bigger and contentment becomes further beyond our reach. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Let’s find joy in everyday moments, and appreciate each tiny step we take toward a better version of ourselves. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Wherever you are, however your life has changed from the global COVID-19 Pandemic and subsequent lockdown, I send you love, strength and all my prayers for a more peaceful and grateful YOU ❤️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #sahm #motherhood #capetownmom #homeschool #lockdown #covid_19 #coronavirus #bekind #begentle #slowdown #loveyourself #starttoday #familyfirst #letthembelittle
Littlest Big Boy Turns 3 🎂 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ My little Lincoln, my sunshine and giggle pants, happy birthday my sweet boy. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’m so grateful you chose me as your Mama and to have the honor of bringing you up in this world. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ At 3 years old, you are more clever than most people know. You will call a triangle a circle, but you’re doing it for a laugh. You have thick skin, a heart that winks and a soul that shines. You don’t cry easily like your big brother (and your Mama!), but you’re fast to turn someones cry in to a smile. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When you were tiny and two weeks old you were hospitalized with meningitis for several days. It was my worst nightmare and, through the fever and lumbar puncture and drip of antibiotics in your tiny wrist, you drank your milk and grew from strength to strength. And then, by 10 weeks old, you laughed. Doctors call it “winds” but it wasn’t. I tickled your tiny pink toes until you squeezed the most joyful sound a heart could make if it could sing. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ To this day your favorite game is tickling and you love to giggle, even when it’s at yourself. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I do my best to teach you everyday, but I hope you know that the real student is me. You’ve taught me to laugh until it hurts, forget the pain, find the twinkle in everyone’s hearts, and to live with simple joy, like it’s my job. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I love you my angel, forever and always. May you continue to giggle and sparkle and light up peoples hearts until the end of time 💫
Passing the Time.... ⏰ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’ve officially been in “lockdown” for nearly 3 weeks. Returning from the UK on 16 March I had mandated self isolation before our national lockdown began. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ While I’m so grateful to be with my family again (I had to isolate away from them initially), I can honestly say my days in lockdown look VERY different with children. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And, I wouldn’t have it any other way. Something shifted in me recently and I’m really treasuring this one on one time while at home all day with my kids. I’ve had to let go of so many selfish things, things that brought me so much joy. But in the release, I’ve found a hidden peace and calm. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I never thought I’d say this, but home schooling my kids is super fun! Wow! Not convinced it’s forever for us, actually it definitely isn’t 🤨. BUT I’m enjoying setting our own rhythm and routine, letting go of unnecessary “personal goals” and witnessing minute by minute growths and triumphs my little boys experience every day. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Proud to be their Mama, and grateful for this little “return to just us”. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ❤️❤️❤️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Projects During Lockdown 🎨 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Meet my friend Madeleen, @abundance.designs. Ok, this snap is of me, be she took it 😉 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ As a graphic designer, photographer and a stay at home super mom of note, she’s a triple threat. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And she’s here to help all you other Moms figure out how to get through this lockdown thing not only mentally sane, but incredibly bonded and in tune with your children’s creativity and development. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Check her out on instagram and DM her your number so she can add you to her Zoom & Facebook live chats for these at home kids projects. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #covid_19 #corona #diy #diywithkids #homeschool #homeprojects #lockdownbelike ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
In it Together ❤️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Whether you are Chinese, American, Italian, or African... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Whether you are a Mom, a CEO, a domestic worker, or a traveler... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Whether you are a President, a Prince, a cleaner or a celebrity... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You are equal to everyone else. You are scared and uncertain. Your life has changed and the world as you know it has embarked on a "new normal". ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But you are not alone, because we are all in this together. And we can be reminded, that we are all from dust and to dust we shall return. We are all human, we are all suffering and we will all have to adapt and change our lives to get through this together. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #covid19 #coronavirus #humanity #weareallequal #loveunites #inittogether #worldunited

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