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Extracted from The Ultimate Snowflake Collection by Heilie Pienaar (Struik Lifestyle)
I had a comment on my blog the other day where one of my readers mentioned waking up at 4am in order to have some me time before her husband and children wake up. I totally understand this need to have time to ones self. Dave and I do nearly everything together. We wake up at the same time and leave for work together. We share an office even though we each have our own businesses and our desks are next to each other. Until I leave the office sometime during the day, we have been together since he got home from work the night before. I usually work in the office until 12h30 and then I head out to see customers, go to gym and do the shopping. But,…
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