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Hanging with my work wife @noxolomulenje before th

Hanging with my work wife @noxolomulenje before the @thermomix_za cooking class 🥦

A bit of Sunday morning baking with my @thermomix_

A bit of Sunday morning baking with my @thermomix_za and a fool-proof Oatmeal Cookie recipe straight off of Cookidoo 🍪

Les Étoiles Vagabondes / The Wandering Stars ✨

Les Étoiles Vagabondes / The Wandering Stars ✨

Thoughts while heading back to Joburg and into the

Thoughts while heading back to Joburg and into the biggest year of my life to date ✨

After 3 years of my Mom trying unsuccessfully to g

After 3 years of my Mom trying unsuccessfully to get a roosterbrood from Tannie Poppie’s in Laingsburg, it finally happened 🙌🏽

Another year in review, although I don’t think 9

Another year in review, although I don’t think 9 photos could quite sum up the extent of the impact that 2022 has had on my life and how much it’s changed me.

Behind the smiles, bright colours and exotic locations, I spent a large portion of this year grieving. The loss of a love and the future I imagined with him, my estranged biological father, my life in South Africa when I left for Bali, an unrequited love and then the biggest loss of all: who I was before finding out I was going to be a mother.

The thing about loss is that it also leads to growth. Besides the enormous amount of loss I’ve had to deal with this year, I’ve also learnt so much more about myself and grown in ways I’d never imagined possible:

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A very special afternoon celebrating the upcoming

A very special afternoon celebrating the upcoming arrival of my baby girl. I’m incredibly grateful and hugely privileged to be surrounded by such a wonderful community of family and friends. They say it takes a village and I’m insanely proud of the amazing people who make up mine 🥰

It dawned on me a couple of days ago that this wil

It dawned on me a couple of days ago that this will be my last Christmas “on my own”. Next year I’ll be celebrating my first Christmas as new mom with a 9 month old baby, continuing the festive traditions I grew up with and hopefully forming my own as a new little family of two. So on that note, a very Merry Christmas from The Bump (aka Frances, Frankie, Fran or Fox) and I 🎄

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