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I was told to pack a bag for a week and not told exactly where we going for our babymoon ahead of #TheAndersonTwins’s arrival earlier this year. Even though I could tell we were clearly headed to KZN (we drove), I couldn’t have imagined where we’d end up… Imagine my surprise (& glee!) when

I spent an evening last week with the Cadbury’s Team at The Cookery, doing (as you may have guessed!) a cooking class to celebrate their current #CashInYourCravings campaign (more on that in a bit). I really didn’t expect to have as much fun as I did (but hey, there’d be lotsa chocolate right?) so

It had been a solid two and a half years since my last trim when I finally sat down in Karen Van Wyngaard’s chair recently. I could blame pregnancy etc. but the truth is that I was afraid to cut for fear of sacrificing length. Why am I this person? I don’t know. I

I first came across Egyptian Magic on the ‘gram, some 2/3 years ago. I remember thinking “But. What. On. Earth. Is. This?” The packaging, the name, everything about this threw me. Of course I was skeptical. I couldn’t find any local reviews and since it was going to be an online purchase there was

You may or may not know I married a coffee connoisseur snob and without a doubt Bean There at 44 Stanley is our favourite, favourite place in Jozi to grab coffee as often as we can. I would still be drinking Jacobs if it wasn’t for A but all instant coffee is banned from

You would have to be living under a (large) rock to not know that Shea Moisture (SM) launched in SA. Before that we all had to scrounge to get our hands on their products here & there – it was a tough life! For a long time their Raw Shea butter range was my

…and thats basically what I wanted to know. I’m not going to do (another) full review because I’ve already done two, here and here (can you tell I’m a stan?!). Reubens remains a firm favourite of ours so much so that its become our ritual to make it our first meal when we get

If my pregnancy had gone well, bar the usual stuff, the delivery was everything but. A C section was planned from the very beginning and I’d accepted that. “Choose a date in your 37th week” my Dr said so we chose a Friday and diarised that. We were all set. As the time crept

Before life went well, south with our infertility journey I’d imagined doing a trimester by trimester update on the blog – no biggie… What I learned was, when you’re infertile & you get pregnant (not to mention and having miscarried before) is that all you really do is hope that you stay pregnant and

5 years 5 rounds of IVF fibroids endometriosis adenomyosis surgery a miscarriage… and that’s the short version… #TheAndersonTwins. They didn’t just happen. It was a long, long road. When I reflect back on my life, it was one of two of the longest, hardest & unending paths I’ve walked that will forever shape my