An Ordinary Girl On An Extraordinary Journey Through Life
Author: JoJo Bayvel
Welcome to my blog or journey through life. As a Digital Marketing Exec for 19yrs, my blog is about life outside the faux world of Social Media - it is about honesty, realness and an appeal to others that NO ONE has a perfect life, YET it can still be a perfectly happy life.
I write as often as possible but sometimes creativity escapes me and pictures or things I find along my journey, will have to do…I write from my heart & don't often check up on grammar for my own posts so grammar police .... mmm you know.
I am a tiny 5"3 girl next; an ordinary girl living an extraordinary life.
I am also an incredibly happy person (with the happy gene) but hey, we all have our issues; you will read about mine here, and if you need to chat drop me a line anytime jojobayvel@me.com.
A little Bio on me
I am a 37 -going on 14 or 40- year old girl living in Cape Town and of course….limbo… am I on the shelf or do I want to actually marry? I am incredibly fussy & believe in fairytales and forever after. Been proposed to 3 times said no as I want an always love...
Typical Gemini…Princess & Tomboy!
Lady and loud, love marketing, art, fashion, sport, Jesus, travel & most of all helping others - it's what makes me heart smile.
I love comfort zones and adventure too? Crave travel, new people and places, never want to move?!?!?
Will always love animals, my family and friends – break-ups always result in me losing a dog!!!
Feisty, stubborn yet soft hearted with a pretty hard outer cover!
Crave love but bore easily… Want & adore kids and to be happily married but dread monotony. Need freedom, space, music and time to breathe but thrive on others company….♥”
Thank you so very much, for reading my posts & any part of my journey through life.
Love Always,
JoJo
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My momma Denise Bayvel & pops Paul Bayvel. I can’t believe we all nearly forgot, but then again I guess you guys make it easy to forget that you’ve made it 45 years.
Love Noun a person or thing that one loves.
Marriage A cord of three strands not quickly broken.” “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”
45 years (8 together before) A long long time.An infinity ♾
Him, my daddy, the springbok rugby player & Her my momma a beauty queen & artist. He saw her across the field & knew she was THE ONE.
He got his girl & she got her boy & 45yrs later they are still together.
Now, proud ‘owners’ of 3 daughters + 1 Son In Law + 2 grandkids, 7 dogs & waiting for more (not dogs.)
My folks & best friends, I can’t believe you both look as handsome dad, & as beautiful as ever, mom.
You just make loving easy even when it’s hard ❤️
Through the tough times (& there are those!) you prove you stay. Through the amazing times you have given us extraordinary memories & a glimpse at what a forever love should be.
Wishing you the happiest 45th anniversary to the most amazing folks, yip I got the best of the best.
You’ve proved that love can conquer all, as no ride through life is easy and you’ve proved that even when you don’t like each other 👀 you can still love each other.
You have honestly set the most amazing example of what that once in a lifetime, soulmate finding, goosebump inducing love can do. Perhaps you’ve set the bar a bit high as we all strive for a compatibility like yours, rather than too settle for anything less in this wonderful thing we call life.
45 years and here is to at least another 20 odd more my precious parents.
Love you always, forever and a day, a little more then that & a whole lot of lot of infinities … Becky
I love supporting #SMBs or just plain #talent & okay, so she is my my beloved aunty Carol Anne Pappalardo who I love infinitely & a day. BUT no bias here as in her ‘heyday’ she won the #gordonflackdavison #designer of her class .. so we bringing this most #talented lady out that woodwork! I mean these jeans! Send her yours & hey 👋 who is Stella?
Hello Carol Signed Sealed Now Deliver Pastel OnTrend .. My Heart
Turning 38 and thank goodness genetically blessed from both folks physically and with youthful looks (knees now do feel the rain coming though 🙂 ), seems like a good time to repost these words I wrote in the middle of a game farm under a star filled African sky next to a mesmerising fire.
I was full of hope and yet I guess whilst the words were straight from the bottom of this heart, I don’t think I was quite ready to be … discovered let alone discover someone and give them my all.

I am ready now…. BUT not ready to discover just anybody. He must be my soulmate and best friend, my forever one, the man who loves me when I am no longer youthful looking but still blessed with the same kind heart and sense of humour ( perhaps with less wits about me but still witty) …because I know that I am capable of; and want that soul quenching, inner beauty loving…forever happiness.

If you asked me what I wanted my darling a thousand times over it would be the same thing,
I want a life filled with adventure, never letting the mundane and boring become a part of who we are,
My love, I want to explore the earth: in its entirety, every last crevice of you, the earth, the oceans and each little thing that the moon shines upon and my love, I want to explore this with you …

Darling if you had to ask me what would make my heart happy and what would make my soul come alive I would tell you this;

Take my heart and hold it in your hand as though it was the very thing that keeps you alive,
Guard it and guide it,
Treat it with the utmost and gentle care, but never allow it to grow tired and still,
As my heart sweet darling needs to be touched and whispered to: so that your heart too, beats with the fire of a thousand African sunsets.

My love if you want to know the secret to hearing my laughter erupting from the depths of my very soul just know the answer lies in allowing me to be me,
for my love, my beauty lies not in the colour of my eyes nor the shape of my lips but rather in the way I live;
to feel free and alive;
And laughter, my love, is the way my heart sings, it allows you to pen lyrics to the sweetest melody your ears have yet to hear.

My darling if you want to know how to make your arms my safe haven then simply do this –
Treat me my sweet sweet darling as though I were the most special and incredible gift;
hold me in your arms, unwrap each layer that encases my body, heart and soul

BUT
Do this with care my darling as the rarest gifts need to be opened slowly and patiently in order to truly appreciate what lies inside the gilded paper,

My love, the answers to most of the questions your mind yearns to know are simple:
For darling they are the very questions you have had the answer to, since the beginning of your mortal time.