Our Story
I believe in sharing stories, it’s how we learn from one another and it’s how we learn to understand one another more. Here are some of my family’s stories. These words might add context to the ideas and concepts that I share in my life lessons.
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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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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The Burger Bar Days: A Beginning
We are Anna and Fred. In August 2016, we decided to spend every last cent we had (and didn’t have) to take a two month break and travel to Northern California to spend time with family. We needed change. While driving around one day I thought, “I wish I could just...
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Gogo
Nothing makes me come more alive than actively pursuing the things that God has placed on my heart. In 2009 I had the absolute pleasure of developing a relationship with Gogo. She is my absolute best. I have not met anyone else yet to rival her spunky personality...
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California Dreaming 2016
"We have traveled far to be here so that we can glance upon where we have journeyed from with a new perspective. We have gone away so that we can return." This is one of my key reflections from our journey to the USA in August 2016. It was a life-changing trip that...
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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.