M & W Opportunities Empower

With support of family and friends, Marnus and William are proud businessmen.
Buy their tasty homemade sweets
The Legendary Butcher
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Kontrei Kombuis Boerekos en Spyseniering
The Steam Room Coffee Bar & Bakery
Maranata Slaghuis/Butchery
The Hometown Deli

Last two days Winter Exhibition Market @ Ludwigs Roses
Enjoy a day out, get some fresh air✴🌟 visit the market to buy your Women Month's sweetness and beautiful fashion accessories, art work, toys, books, etc. - spoil yourself and/or your loved ones.
Marnus and William have their extended home made sweets range on display.

Marnus and William market display set and ready - Winter Exhibition Market @ Ludwigs Roses Videos in next post💙💛

We are preparing for this year's Winter Exhibition Market @ Ludwigs Roses . Market is open to public from this coming Friday.
Marnus and William will have their range of home made sweets on display.
Due to requests we have Date Balls, Fudge and Chocolate Cookies in larger containers, as well.

Marnus and William ready for business NHK Montana, July 20💛💙

We enjoyed a festive day, yesterday, at the NHK Montana Nederduits Hervormde Kerk Montana...
William and Marnus spent time with family and friends, made new friends as well💙💛 We thank everyone for your chats and support

Should anyone be unsure about the taste and quality of Marnus and William's home made sweets - we got a thumbs up from Tannie Poppie van Kokkedoor . She is known as the 'Chuck Norris' of South African food.
We met her yesterday at Market Lewende Woord - Main. She said 'your sweets are delicious' - between herself and family they've already tasted several on the first day. Visit the Unique market to buy yours.
Also availible at
Kontrei Kombuis Boerekos en Spyseniering
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The Steam Room Coffee Bar & Bakery
The Legendary Butcher
Maranata Slaghuis/Butchery
The Hometown Deli
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When Marnus & William's preparations for markets are done, we take it seriously😀 Visit the Market Lewende Woord - Main - upper class displays and products for everyone's taste.
This market is even more unique in the way that most exhibitions are in support of people with disabilities and pensioners.
Bring friends, family and enjoy....
The most deliscious home made sweets from the M&W range are on display.
Latest addition, the Crunchie biscuits!
Try the Unique M&W Blend, roasted coffee crafted by Willie Koekemoer

Beatiful bows designed by Michelle Gray Roberts and original oil paintings by Romien Van Zyl Wait forms part of Marnus and William's individual entrepreneurial projects.

Happy birthday William💛💙🥂🍾
We love you ♥️

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M&W home made sweets available
The Legendary Butcher
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Kontrei Kombuis Boerekos en Spyseniering
The Steam Room Coffee Bar & Bakery
The Biltong & Nuts Box
Maranata Slaghuis/Butchery
Hokaai Faerie Glen Winkelsentrum

Reeds geskepte bord spyskaart vir Junie!

New to the M&W range - Crunchies, a bit crispy, not too hard/soft - just right. 💛💙
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We are looking forward to be part of the Unique Market, June 2024 in Pretoria East.💛💙
We've extended our range of products on display with Williiam's Crunchie Cookies
- as part of Marnus's project, a dear friend Romien Van Zyl Wait's original oil paintings (small) will be on display

We thank The Hometown Deli 18th Avenue, Rietfontein who came on board with selling Marnus and William's homemade sweets. 💙💛

Beautiful gifts and delicious home-made sweets until Saturday (15H00) Pretoria North High School market.

Truth💙💛

“Parents of special needs children wear capes”.
Unpopular opinion. They Don’t.

I am here to debunk the opinion that “special children are given to special people”.

Whilst this saying is meant with what I am sure is the very best of intentions, it is simply not true.
Parents of children with special needs have no added superpowers. We simply show up, every day, and do our best for our children, just like you do and just like you would.

We have been thrust into circumstances which many of us did not choose. We were not briefed or coached and very often we are dealing with a deep sense of loss of the child that we had thought we would have.

We juggle. We hold down jobs and partnerships and relationships. We do this whilst navigating a new normal. A diary that is full of common to do lists, and a few added medical , therapy, education appointments.

We drop so.many.balls.
We are perpetually tired. Life is full and busy and stressful. We cry, we shout, and we lose our tempers and our patience.And we laugh, oh we laugh.

We often feel that we are continually fighting and failing. We feel that we are not doing enough, that we are not enough for our children, that we are not doing enough for ourselves, for our health, for our other relationships.

We fight every day to keep the worry of the future at bay. It forces us to not look too far ahead, and in doing so it allows us to take in the small wins, the seemingly insignificant steps forward, how far we have come.
There are times that we wish that we could take our children’s diagnosis away, not because we would change our child, but rather that the world would change to embrace them.

We love deeply. So deeply that it often feels like we are holding our own exposed beating hearts in the palms of our hands.
This love, this protection of our children with special needs can be all consuming, it can often bring us to our knees with its intensity.

We are navigating an atypical road. A road often littered with pot poles, speed humps and breakdowns, but more than that a road that is so surprisingly beautiful and colourful and joyous, that it quite literally takes our breath away.