Flu season – What to look out for

Apart from flu season making its presence felt in this here house, It’s been a tough few days on other fronts as well, I will go into detail about that later, but for now, let’s focus on the fact that both Aidan and I have felt like regurgitated death for almost a week.

Nothing says mom life, like the feeling of drowning inside your own head while your child cries in your arms and vomits into your uggs…lovely visual right? The question that comes up most often at this moment  (apart from; Lord why have you forsaken me?) is: “Do these symptoms warrant a trip to the doctor?”

Continue reading →

Expert advice for those day one natural hair questions 

There are so many natural hair questions! So many things Naturalistas want to get to the bottom of before taking the big step, or big chop. Today I share answers from an expert because I am the first to admit that unlike my eyeliner, I’m winging this.
THE Amanda Cooke, better known as Mandy from Cape Town Curly (one of the organisers of the annual The Cape Town Natural Hair Fest and my personal hair crush) has answered the top natural hair questions that seem to be plaguing newbies (judging by my inbox) so here goes
 

Continue reading →