A Visit to Grootnek Guest Farm
If you have small children and a busy life, you probably long to find the time and money to create meaningful experiences for your family. While our children are little, we have the opportunity to fill their childhoods with stand out memories. Recollections of...
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Family Update 2020
Here we are. We can be nowhere else but here and so we are busy discovering the value of here. Here are our boundaries, here are our restrictions, here are our disappointments and here isn't going to be there until it's not. And that seems like an appropriate...
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Few things are needed
I've known for a while that doing isn't the thing. It's not the thing that will transform my life. Yet, I can't help doing. I am like Martha in the kitchen. Compassionately, Jesus said to her, “You are worried and upset about many things." Who today is worried...
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In conversation with Sophie Smith
Hi Sophie! Your Instagram account paints such a beautiful picture of slow living and natural parenting. You look like you are a nature lover and you certainly have your hands full with two busy young children very close in age. Tell us a bit about yourself and your...
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How to measure ourselves: part 2
I explored some ways not to measure ourselves in part one of this two-part series on how to measure ourselves. I will now share two ways that I believe can help us weigh our progress and remain aligned with the dreams that we have for our lives. Sometimes we find...
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How to measure ourselves: part 1
We do this. We measure ourselves. Existing in a world that promotes success in so many different shapes and forms, our unit of measure is not fixed. There's no equation, no text book to know the measure of a man and so we can lose ourselves in this process if we...
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An Interview with Marysol Blomerus: South Africa’s First Specialised Birth Photographer
I first came across Marysol through my father. If I remember correctly, he had some kind of interaction with her father and both of them were showing off to each other about their daughters (as dads do). And so my dad came back and told me about the amazing Marysol...
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Why do I love living in PE?
I had a couple of other topic ideas lined up for today, my third day of 'a blog a day for seven days'. But instead I decided to go with a fun one and write about why we choose to live in the so called 'armpit' of South Africa'. It was only ever one funny man radio...
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How to go slow
What is slow living? It's difficult to define slow living in words. It's not the words themselves that introduce a challenge, it's quite easy to find the ones that align with the concept of slow. Intentional, purposeful, mindful, long-term, resourceful and...
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We want to live a slow life. A life of connection and simplicity. A life that allows us the space to assess what we really want to be spending our time and resources on. And so here we are, the Slow Down Family, working on slowing down more. We are figuring out how to apply this to all areas of our life, and how to do it while raising small children and pursing our dreams.
Follow our journey here as we share our experiences and tips on how to minimise and create space in our lives for the things that we really want to keep.