Sunday Reads

• Choosing a guardian for your child
• I don’t think I would love my priest or pastor to swear
• Love me some Tiny Desk concerts
• Highly recommend this podcast episode: How To Help a Loved One With Dementia
• Potty training is a milestone that for me as a parent marks the end of little and dependent childhood.
• An annual general meeting for your marriage? Say less, I am in!!
• Are Trad Wives Happier Than Women In Equal Relationships?
• IVF from the male point of view

Recipes

• Tomato soup
• Lentil recipes. The following are my faves: 1,2.3 and 4
• Tortelli with Brown Butter
• Whiskey cocktails
• Dinner rolls
• Pancake recipes
• Creamy Tuscan Chicken
• Fried tilapia

Sunday Reads

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• Long live radio
• What can you do about the climate change emergency?
• Your Sleep In Your 30s and 40s Can Alter Your Brain Function For the Rest Of Your Life. What terrible terrible news
• Fantastic listening on the extended girlhood that Taylor Swift gets to enjoy
• Taylor Swift and the Good Girl Trap
• T-swift and her carbon footprint in the name of LURRVE 🙂
• On dementia in an old loved one
• Thinking of yourself as a brand is actually exhausting.
• TOO many inequalities are highlighted in this work.

Recipes

• I used to cook this chicken recipe all the time in high school, must make for the fam
• Lemon garlic salmon tray bake
• Because no one ever has enough chicken wings recipes, here is one and another.
• Wouldn’t this be a cute cake for a 5-year old?

Sunday Reads

• We all know the monobloc plastic chair, right?
• Would you rather questions for couples?
• Sleep training should be my side hustle, really!!
• Wall Pilates sounds fun and cheap.
• The Best Pilates Exercises To Do Every Day, According To Trainers
• Raising financially savvy kids
• The actual cost of breastfeeding
• What is motherhood imposter syndrome?

Recipes

• The most amazing canned tuna pasta
• Zucchini Recipes
• Chicken And Rice
• Various Spinach Recipes

Sunday Reads

• Ways to Lead and Love Your Wife (and Husband)
• Moving to a new city is emotional but the 20’s is the best time to do it.
• Why is learning not adapting to the current times?
• Reader’s block is a thing.
• Book recommendations for high schoolers.
• When you feel like you are wasting your life.

Recipes

• Salads Without Lettuce
• 10 Simple Tricks for Better Home-Brewed Coffee
• Easy Vegetarian Recipes
• Sometimes I work from home and it would be nice to have a variety of lunch recipes to save myself eating cereal or cheese sandwiches.
• Chicken and rice recipes, so yum

Sunday Reads (Parenting edition)

•  Sensory play activities to stimulate your toddler’s beautiful brain 
• Family Traditions To Start With Your Kids
• What To Do For A Baby With A Cough
• Conversation Starters For Kids
• When Motherhood Doesn’t Go as Planned
• Traveling with kids. Products to help.
• Questions about your newborn – asked and answered
• The Best History Podcasts For Kids
• Pumping techniques and tips

Recipes

• School Morning Breakfast Ideas That Are So Easy
• 17 Easy Recipes For Breastfeeding Moms That Are Simple & Healthy
• Serving kids veggies
• Five ingredient meals for the entire family

Sunday Reads

• The Absurd Logistics of Concert Tours
• What a douchebag
• Climate change and its’ effect on people
• Is your kid a picky eater? Here are some tips to help.
• I am really trying to introduce house plants. Like I really want it.
• Book recommendations from a fave podcast
• What happens to all those unaired pilots?
• Emotional labour and marriage …
• … and how one partner helps out his wife when she solo parents

Recipes

• 22 One-Pot Meals Without Pasta To Feed Your Whole Tired-Of-Spaghetti Family
• Cooking lasagna this week.
• Sticky Pork Ribs with Mango BBQ sauce
• Lemon Herb Pearl Couscous Salad with Chickpeas
• Creamy Pasta Recipes
• 5-Ingredient Meals

Sunday Reads

• 5 Bible Resources for Struggling Readers
• What do you and your friends do together when you hang out?
• How do babies learn?
• I really miss doing Pilates in a group setting
• Travelling as a family on a budget
• I love the idea of a basic set of things you have to teach your children to make them fully functioning adults, will post more on that later.
• The productivity of working moms
• Free workouts you can stream on YouTube

Recipes

• Yummy pasta recipes
• Shrimp Lettuce Wraps
• Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
• Chickpea recipes

Sunday Reads

• Ever wondered how they make lace?
• Are you looking for TV Show recommendations? BTW, I thought White Lotus was OVERRATED.
• Some romantic gestures for you and your plus one
• Hard Launch Caption Ideas For Instagram
• When Motherhood Doesn’t Go as Planned
• Kid-friendly podcasts
• Cleaning your dutch oven
• Financial literacy and little people
• Why do men take so long to poop?
• Pitfalls of the soft life
• Is Therapy-Speak Making Us Selfish? DEFINITELY YES
• 8 Things Girls Need To Hear Their Father Say At Home

Recipes

• Yummy salads
• Salisbury steak meatballs with mushroom gravy
• Lentil soup recipes
• Jamaican rice and peas (beans)
• Pasta alla Norma
• A quick and yummy tuna pasta recipe

Sunday Reads

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• You don’t have to be the perfect parent—be the parent you want them to remember
• What Is After-School Restraint Collapse And How To Help Your Kid
• Moms are the ‘default parent’ because we live in a patriarchy
• Better than a baby shower, me thinks 🙂
• 78 Questions For Couples to Help Get to Know Each Other Better
• Dealing with the mental load of parenting (besides SCREAMING and being passive aggressive)
• 6 strategies that will make you a better reader — and person. I especially like #1, when I stopped reading books I did not enjoy, my life was immediately transformed.

Recipes

• Family-friendly batch meals
• Tender ox-tail
• Vegetable Biryani
• Shrimp recipes
• Yummy yummy yummy Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream
• Enchilladas with lovely sauce

Sunday (Cooking) Reads

Happy Easter!! Our Lord and Saviour is risen

• Coffee and Walnut Loaf
• Butternut squash salad
• Various winter soups
• Chicken yassa (braised chicken with caramelised onions)
• Healthy salad dressings
• Black bean tacos
• Tuna salad

Sunday Reads

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• 17 mess-free summer craft ideas for kiddos (because we know that schools are closing for the year)
• … and more ways to keep them entertained at home.

• Tips for those of us who will be flying with kids over the break.
• Packing light when travelling with kids.
• Dental tips for little people from Instagram Dentists.
• At-home date night ideas.
• Sharing the mental load with your partner. #2 and #3 are my personal faves and something that I am trying to include in our set up.
• The importance of praying when you don’t feel like it.
• Now I want to move to a new city and start over.

Recipes

• Warming whiskey cocktails
• Cooking black beans and black bean enchilladas.
• Other bean recipes
• Chicken enchilladas.
• Poached eggs, Yummy
• Lunch wraps
• I’m always here for pretty salads like this one with beets and goats cheese.
• Roasted vegetable pasta

Sunday (Cooks)

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• Crispy Chickpea Rice Pilaf
• Home-made ice cream recipes
• Simple jeera (cumin) rice
• Sugar bean curry
• More chicken recipes
• Mediterranean White Bean Salad
• Harissa-Braised Eggplant
• Pesto Shrimp Pasta
• Roasted Vegetable Baked Penne
• I love a good mac and cheese
• Apple Cinnamon Pancakes
• chickpea and kale shakshuka

Some meal prep help is alway helpful

Lockdown Lesson II

Do not trust a recipe that asks you to to make meatballs with quinoa. NEVER EVER AGAIN!!

Sunday Reads

• The power of connection and being bold to ask for something
• Raising bilingual kids
• The pressure to exclusively breastfeed is hurting mothers’ mental health
• Rethinking efficiency and productivity in meetings
• Really thinking through each critical step of decisions you have to make
• Fish and Chips shops in Joburg

Recipes

• chickpea and kale shakshuka
• Meatballs with any type of meat
• … another meatball recipe
• cooking with zucchini

Sunday Reads

• How to get kids to read more.
• Miscarriages are never easy to talk about.
• Traveling with kids and toddlers 
• Imagine being married for 64 years and then getting sweet anniversary shots.
• This TEDTalk made me realise I need to let go of a certain friendship

 

Recipes

• How to make Ice cream, yum
• Some more ice cream recipes
• Lemony Artichoke and Quinoa Salad
• Blueberry Ginger Sorbet

Sunday Reads

• “The story I’m telling myself…”
• It breaks my heart that kids go home sans any clothes
• Making ice cream with your toddlers.
• I thought this video announcing their pregnancy reflected my own journey

Recipes

• Soy Glazed Eggplant
• I want to bake this cake

Sunday Reads

Source

• Traveling with baby …. we have a little trip planned later next month so. …
• I LOVED this book, please read it!!
• What Every Grandparent Needs to Tell Their Grandchildren
• I love these breastfeeding tips for new mothers.
• Making time for all the things that you need to as a parent.
• Truly the Victor dictates history

Recipes

• Dessert Recipes Starring Greek Yogurt
• Yum for these potatoes, schlurpppp!

 

Sunday Reads

• The lies parents tell to keep peace and sanity around the house.
• May the Church of God continue to stand strong always.
• Just read a bit of the Word, regardless.
• This little baby made my day.
• These lessons can easily apply to any new job.
• Oh New York how much I love thee

Recipes

• Cilantro Lime Dressing
• More pasta recipes
• Must try this: Blueberry Ginger Sorbet
• Chicken breast recipes
• Chickpeas stew

Sunday Reads

• I loved this story of how food bridged the gap between the mainstream culture and “the other”.
• Relating your faith and child discipline.
• I loved Asma Khan’s episode of Chef’s Table.
• I love a good playlist and have gotten started on this one.
• This teacher deserves an award.

Recipes

• 10 Cozy and Quick to make Vegetarian Dinners 
• Some more potato recipes

Sunday Reads

• RTWT – Read The Whole Thread
• I suppose middle class parents mean well but the cost of intensive parenting is rather steep.
• Loved the reasons that kids threw tantrums, so hilarious but i suppose not for the parents.
• I want to check out this Art bar in Braamfontein.
• Being a good friend at all times is quite tough but beneficial.
• An ode to female friendships

Recipes

• 10 Homemade Salad Dressing Recipes
• Banana Bread Muffins
• We all need some quick weekday or actually, in general recipes
• Some more pasta recipes.