by Kate Motaung | Oct 16, 2014 | 31 Days, 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes, 31 Days of Life in South Africa
Hello! Welcome, and thanks for stopping by! This is Day 16 of 31 Days of Life in South Africa — a series in which every post has been written as a free-write in five minutes flat. Yesterday I shared my daughter’s birth story. The rest of the posts in...
by Kate Motaung | Oct 15, 2014 | 31 Days, 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes, 31 Days of Life in South Africa, Surprised by Motherhood
I thought you were going to be a boy. Everybody did. Except Grandma. She said that as soon as she got off the plane in Cape Town and saw that I was carrying you all tight and compact in the front, she thought you were a girl. She said she had carried me and my sister...
by Kate Motaung | Oct 14, 2014 | 31 Days, 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes, 31 Days of Life in South Africa, South Africa
It was a day or two before our Michigan wedding when my mom woke me up early. “It’s your pastor in Cape Town,” she said, holding out the cordless phone. My heart thumped hard in my chest. Why would he be calling me from South Africa? “Hello?” I answered, terrified of...
by Kate Motaung | Oct 12, 2014 | 31 Days, 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes, 31 Days of Life in South Africa, South Africa
My dad says that rest is good. God thinks so, too. My husband says I’m not very good at it. Just resting. I like to be busy, even if it’s doing something that I find relaxing. I have a hard time just sitting, if you know what I mean. I’ve come to learn that, in...
by Kate Motaung | Oct 11, 2014 | 31 Days, 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes, 31 Days of Life in South Africa, South Africa
Looking for this week’s Five Minute Friday post and the giveaway from Red Letter Words? Click here. This is Day 11 of 31 Days of Life in South Africa — a series in which every post is written in five minutes flat. Thanks for stopping by! ...
by Kate Motaung | Oct 9, 2014 | 31 Days, 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes, 31 Days of Life in South Africa, Five-Minute Friday, South Africa
It’s Five Minute Friday time, and as promised, I have another giveaway for you, my favorite internet crowd! In case you missed it last week, I’ve cooked up some amazing giveaways for every Friday in the month of October, mostly to keep the momentum going...