This week I am taking a quick, Pre-Christmas break and visiting the beautiful Cape Town. Every time I come here I stand in awe of how beautiful our country and especially Cape Town is. Yesterday I went shopping at Canal Walk - I love to shop till I drop and best of all this shopping, is that while I shop I can walk my 10 000 steps for the day in a safe cool environment without realizing it. After the great shopping, we visited the Grand West Casino and had a lot of fun (if you can call losing money fun Today we visited the Waterfront and my husband actually shopped more than me, which is starting to become a habit. On route back I purchased a magazine, The Big Issue. The Big Issue is a socially responsible non-profit organisation that enables willing unemployed and marginalised adults to take responsibility for their own lives through a developmental employment programme. I bought mine from Lindilwe Mtsi, who sells this magazine in Beach Road, Sea Point
Today I realized again what a blessing it is to be a granny and to have the privilege of spending wonderful quality time with my grandchildren. Keagan the eldest has his Grade 7 farewell tonight and he looks so handsome, after he had me shopping for 3 days solid. Chloe received a medal after passing her first ballet exam. Now I have to learn those same steps, but I can see she is on the brink of giving up on me -her excuse being, I am not trying hard enough and those “nobbles” (bunions) on my feet is the reason I can not do ballet. After being diagnosed with diabetes, I changed my eating habits completely, so now when the family brings out snacks, Zanne, who is only 2 years old will jump up hide all the snacks (for her own gain) then she will turn around and say: “Ouma, you are not allowed to eat this, you will die.” I realized being diagnosed with diabetes is not what I expected, but it is Gods way of showing me that I must change my lifestyle. After finding out that