Who doesn’t love a good movie? I remember watching the first Toy Story as a young adult. I may not have been the target market, but I loved it enough to watch Toy Story 2 and 3.
Finally this year I will get to watch the 4th movie with my kids. I’m looking forward to catching up with the toy gang again.
To celebrate Disney’s Toy Story 4 I have a hamper to give away!
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1 winner will be drawn on 16 July 2019
To enter you have to share the post on Facebook, Twitter air Instagram and tag @goddesscoza. You also have to answer the question in the comments of this blog post.
The prize is valued at R810 and is sponsored by Disney Africa.
Winner will be announced in the blog and Facebook/Twitter and has 72 hours to claim their prize.
Competition open to residents of South Africa only.
I grew up thinking that the Kruger Park was in our backyard –
that’s how many times we went. One of my most vivid memories was seeing lions
for the very first time. I remember pressing my nose flat against the window in
the stationwagon to get a better view of these better cats. My parents loved
going to the Kruger Park and I still do, but I can’t just pop over there… its
far!
I was elated to be introduced to the Rhino & Lion Nature Reserve just 2 shakes from our home. Not only do they have lions, but they also have a bunch of other cats and animals to look at.
Once you enter the park adrenaline starts pumping. Just after the gate the very first watering hole with animals, then up and down a hill a gate will be opened that keeps the predators away from the herbivores.
We didn’t get to do the animal interactions as we were at the Rhino & Lion Nature Reserve for an easter egg hunt and the children were kaput! Next time we’ll do that…
When the driving gets too much you can always go to the Thatch Café for a snack or take on the bicycle ramps. You can also go to the Thatch Cafe and bike park without entering the rest of the park – which means it’s a free place to go! You can also rent bicycles here.
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I have 1 x set of 2 tickets to give away
You need to be able to get to the expo on your own. Transport is not included.
I will draw a winner on Friday 12 July 2019 by random draw. No correspondence will be entered into about winner. Winner has until the 15th of July to claim their prize.
Sophie the Sea Lion truly is a magical creature and she is featured on our Tommee Tippee GroTowel and GroRobe.
I don’t know why there isn’t a get it in your size button on the website, because the Tommee Tippee GroRobe is probably the best snuggly gown we’ve come across. Lexa loves it as a pre- and post bath robe.It features soft hypoallergenic Puredry Microfibre that quickly dries to stop your child getting chilly.
The Tommee Tippee GroTowel we gave to little Lily, because “sissy pretty”. It is a neat little baby towel with hoodie and super soft and absorbent.
One of my favourite products from the Gro range has to be the Tommee Tippee GroEgg. This nifty little gadget lights up baby’s room and tells us the temperature. The best part, the light changes with the temperature! Red for warm and yellow for getting too cold. We’ve only seen our house in the 17 to 26 degree Celsius range.
Tommee Tippee GroBag comes with it’s very own baby room thermometer – and can be used with a pram/baby chair with its nifty travel feature.
We didn’t use the GroBag as apparently my kids do not like to be wrapped in anything their feet can’t escape from (this is a family thing). Lily had the absolute worst tantrum when I put her inside the Tommee Tippee GroBag. I still think it is a great product as we used something similar with Lexa as a baby, but Lily just isn’t into it.
I was gifted these 4 items to try, but the opinions expressed are my own.
Layers of fun, collectible dolls to have many hours of imaginative play fun with and a not so happy bank balance for parents.
The fun begins as soon as you rip open the first layer 🙂
I usually get irritated with collectible toys, but somehow L.O.L dolls have escaped this. They are sassy, charming, unique and work well as a bribe to get better marks, tidy up rooms or as a birthday/Christmas present. The fun starts at the first layer and extends long past the last layer. Once the L.O.L doll has their first friend, the L.O.L bug truly has you. Next step is to add a Lil Sister and a L.O.L Laundry to your collection and to have even more fun.
L.O.L Surprise Under Wraps Doll thusfar is my favourite. You need to uUnbox the spy glass to find the codes and unlock surprises. Not only do you get a whole carry case that can hold multiple LOLs, but it can also be used as a handbag or converted to a little shower for your dolls. The packet includes:
You gotta love the bling! The L.O.L Surprise Doll Bling Series includes
dolls dressed with tinsel glitter finishes from head to toe. They are
simply the sassiest of the L.O.L family. Feed or bath your doll for an
extra surprise.
Secret Message Sticker
Collectible Stickers
Water Bottle
Shoes
Outfit
Fashion Accessory
L.O.L Surprise Bling Series Doll
Ball becomes a doll stand that you can hang anywhere to display your doll!
Collector’s guide
The Lil Sisters come
with a gift for their big sisters. They are wrapped in 5 layers, but are
just as sassy as their big sisters.
Bath your babies for an additional water surprise!
Secret message sticker
Collectible sticker
Spy Glass
Small fashion accessory
Large fashion accessory
L.O.L. Lil Sister doll with Water Surprise
Collector’s guide
Ball transforms into key chain carrying case and bath playset.
L.O.L Laundry (L.O.L Surprise Fashion Crush) is a 3 layer surprise in a basket filled with slime and a whole new outfit for your L.O.L doll. Digging around to find all the pieces is a great sensory activity with a great reward.
Yes, maybe they are expensive, but we do love these sassy little girls. We now have 4 big sisters and a little sister plus hope to add a new L.O.L to Lexa’s collection for Xmas.
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In case you wanted to meet our other 2 L.O.L dolls here they are!
I fell out of love with my Instax Mini 8 and 9. It can’t give me what I need, to print the memories I already have and I can’t move onto capturing new memories just yet.
We were next to my mom’s sickbed for a month, day in, day out from 9 to sometimes after 6. At first we hoped she would get better, get out and give us all hell again. She didn’t get better, she got worse day after day. She shrunk and all we got do was be there until the end.
Those last images of her are etched onto my mind – and those are the only images I want to forget. That is not who she was. That is not her life. That is not her.
She made enough memories to last us a lifetime more – and we have them spread out on albums and in our phones. I’ve started printing them to help me come to terms with the loss of my mom – but also to replace those haunting hospital images in my mind.
The day I realised what I needed…
I went to the Instax mini LiPlay and Printlife Exhibition launch at Sandton City. I didn’t want to go out just yet, but I’m glad I did because I tried out the FujiFilm SmartPrint app and printed a few photos of my mom and family. The best part of my day was winning an Instax mini LipPlay. This little camera gave me what I wanted, instant print from my camera phone.
I’ll do another post to show you how to create a memory jar with Instax photos – because that’s what I did with these precious photos.
Sy was altyd daar vir ons met ‘n brei- of hekelpen in die hand. Sy was ons skooltaxi, kleremaker, koekbakster, grootste ondersteuner langs die sportveld, trooster, briefieskrywer, verorberaar van boeke, beste viendin en kwaaiste kort ma.
Ons is dankbaar vir al die wonderlike tye wat ons saam haar en my pa kon hê – van bo langs die Zambezi en Hwange tot onder in die Kaap. Haar voete het nooit ophou jeuk nie en sy het lank na ons uit die huis was nog my pa na die Kruger Wildtuin bly sleep en ook saam ons families gaan rondry in Mosambiek. Sy het selfs dit oorsee gemaak met haar naamgenoot.
Sy sal altyd deel van ons wees en ons sal altyd die goeie tye onthou, maar ons sal haar dwarstrekkery altyd mis.
Life has to be more than living from paycheck to paycheck, promotions at work or paying off posessions. It should be about adventures, making memories and living the best life you possibly could.
Here are 25 quotes to inspire you to live your best life:
“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde
“Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.”
“Life is a journey. Make the best of it.”
“In the end we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
“Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.” – Karen Gibbs
“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.”
”I’ll look back on this and smile because it was life and I decided to live it”
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. Carol Burnett
“The way get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
“Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.” – Drew Houston
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” – Thomas Merton
“Your life is your canvas, and you are the masterpiece.” – Kerli
“The whole point is to live life and be – to use all the colors in the crayon box.” – RuPaul
“When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.” – Ella Woodward
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. Khalil Gibran
“The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.” – Karen Salmansohn
“Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!” – Louis Tomlinson
“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner
“Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.” – Charles M. Schulz
Dis moeilik om te skryf as jy vassit in ‘n familiekrisis. Die woorde wil nie mooi vorm in jou kop en jou vingers haak vas.
Ek het al hier gebly, vir een jaar ‘n leeftyd gelede. Nou is ek terug vir my ma. Alleen, sonder my familie of my kat met te min klere en een paar skoene.
Ek is vasgevang in dié oomblik, die pad hospitaal toe en terug. Blou sirkels om my oë, wange wat half ingeval het en ‘n traan in albei oë wat nie wil uitval nie.
Dis asof ek wag vir ‘n wonderwerk, maar die realiteit is dat elke dag die laaste dag kan wees. Ons weet nie, die dokters weet nie – ons wag en hoop dat sy nog sal bly.
There is something special about living on the African continent. It’s a place where the world passes through enroute to discover themselves. It’s a place where lions can still roar as kings and people still smile.
Africa is where my heart is. It is where I took my first breath and plan to take my last breath. It’s where my language and people were born. It’s a place that inspired great writers and poets with its beauty. It’s a place where you can find and lose yourself. It’s a place where you meet the world.
The celebration of Africa Day
Africa has always been a place everyone wanted a piece of. We may now be all self-governed but we still face challenges such as poverty, unemployment, lack of education and access to healthcare.
My biggest fear right now is that Africa’s doors are welcoming China too much. Yes we need investment, but we should never stop making sure that China doesn’t get more of Africa than we would want to give. We have a continent rich in everything that will be plundered.
“I am not African because I was born in Africa, but because Africa was born in me” – Kwame Nkrumah
“Africa is one continent, one people and one nation.” – Kwame Nkrumah
“We are all children of Africa, and none of us is better or more important than the other. This is what Africa could say to the world: it could remind it what it is to be human.” – Alexander McCall Smith
“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.” – Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa
“Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little.” – Douglas Wilder
“Everything in Africa bites but the safari bug is worst of all.” – Brian Jackman
“Africa’s not a color – it’s a place.” – Trevor Noah
“If I have ever seen magic, it has been in Africa.” –John Hemingway
“You cannot leave Africa, Africa said. It is always with you, there inside your head. Our rivers run in currents in the swirl of your thumbprints; our drumbeats counting out your pulse; our coastline the silhouette of your soul.” – Bridget Dore
“When you leave Africa, as the plane lifts, you feel that more than leaving a continent you’re leaving a state of mind. Whatever awaits you at the other end of your journey will be of a different order of existence.” – Francesca Marciano
